Construction - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 2013
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Union Corrugating Co. (Video Supplement)

By: Jim Sharpe

This is the Video Supplement for Union Corrugating Company(A) and (B) (HBS Cases 803065 and 804003). View Details

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December 2012 (Revised November 2014)
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W.R. Grace & Co.: Dealing with Asbestos Torts

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott

A manufacturer of building products and specialty chemicals, W. R. Grace & Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 in response to a flood of lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos, and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract... View Details

Keywords: Bankruptcy Reorganization; Business Failures; Environmental Regulations; Class Action Lawsuits; Natural Environment; Valuation; Health Disorders; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Lawsuits and Litigation; Chemicals; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Legal Liability; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; United States

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March 2001
Teaching Note

U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Three Georges Dam (A) and (B) TN, The

By: George C. Lodge

Teaching Note for (9-900-017) and (9-900-018). View Details

Keywords: Construction Industry; Construction Industry; China; United States

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May 2000 (Revised July 2000)
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U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Three Gorges Dam (B), The

By: George C. Lodge and Cate Reavis

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Construction Industry; Construction Industry; China; United States

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May 1998 (Revised October 1998)
Case

Komatsu and Dresser: Putting Two Plus Two Together

By: Ashish Nanda

In 1987, Komatsu Ltd., looking to expand its presence in the U.S. earth-moving equipment (EME) industry, enters into a 50-50 joint venture with Dresser. The management of the Komatsu Dresser joint venture faces difficulty in bringing the two halves together. The rift... View Details

Keywords: Integration; Machinery and Machining; Restructuring; Joint Ventures; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Japan; United States

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When Young joined Champion Enterprises, the diversified housing and recreational vehicle company had just filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. In his first six months in office, he drastically reorganized the leadership structure. A growing economy provided a... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

Charles D. Wiman

As the great-grandson of the company founder, Wiman was principally responsible for expanding and modernizing Deere’s operations, putting it on a path to become the largest and most successful supplier of large-scale agricultural equipment in the United States. Under... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

Goff Smith

Spending over 35 years with Amsted, Smith led the company through a period of phenomenal growth continuing a 40-year tradition of uninterrupted dividends. During his 6 years as CEO, he doubled revenues from $450 million to $915 million and more than doubled earnings... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

James W. Rouse

A visionary in the real estate world, Rouse was famous for planning and revitalizing suburban and urban areas. Rouse created the "festival marketplace" concept in cities and the indoor mall in suburbs. Beginning with Boston's Quincy Market, Rouse repeated his... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

Bruce E. Karatz

Karatz has led KB Home during a period of immense growth. When he took over the CEO position, the company was selling and delivering 4,000 prefabricated homes a year. By 2003, the company was producing and selling over 27,000 homes. Karatz grew the business through... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

F. Trammell Crow

Crow built the Dallas Home Furnishings Mart, in the mid-1950’s with 8 million square feet of exhibition space. Following on this success, he built trade marts from Atlanta to Brussels. In the 1960s and 1970s, Crow built the Peachtree Center in Atlanta and the... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

22 Jul 2010
News

An Entrepreneurial Tile Tale

Keywords: state fair; Construction; Construction

02 Nov 2021
News

The Road to Racial Equity

that want to address persistent inequities. The goal is to achieve for DEI efforts what the LEED standards have done for sustainability in the construction world: to provide measurable and attainable guidelines. Walker & Dunlop, a real... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

02 Jun 2021
News

The NBA's African Expansion

The National Basketball Association recently announced the creation of NBA Africa, a new entity that will operate the Basketball Africa League (BAL), build corporate partnerships, expand content and media rights, and support local efforts to View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Stock Exchanges - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

in the great Hamburg fire of 1842. Fortunately, construction of a new exchange building on the Adolphsplatz had already begun in 1839, and was dedicated in 1841. It was enlarged several times during the remainder of the nineteenth... View Details

30 Nov 2017
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SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier

Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria, a wide cross-section of faculty, alumni, students, and friends from across the University were joined by the Turner Construction team, Allston residents, and Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh and... View Details

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

Abstract Focusing empirically on how political and economic forces are always mediated and interpreted by agents, both in individual countries and in the international sphere, Constructing the International Economy sets out what such... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

In September 2008, Lehman Brothers went under—the largest bankruptcy in American history. But that was just the beginning of the story. What followed was the Great Recession, a gargantuan financial crisis that affected the entire world economy. Five years later, we're... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Construction; Construction; Construction; Construction

November 2003 (Revised August 2006)
Case

Union Corrugating Company (B)

By: Paul W. Marshall and Julia Stevens

Lauri Union, president of Union Corrugating Co., has successfully transformed her family's corrugated steel roofing and siding manufacturer into a successful enterprise. Reviews how Union turned the struggling company around and also considers the management structure... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Competition; Work-Life Balance; Success; Change Management; Management Systems; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; Boston; North Carolina

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May 1994 (Revised November 2001)
Case

Concord Center

By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.

A major shopping center developer and an insurance company form a joint venture to develop a 900,000 square foot super-regional shopping center. Describes the nine-year struggle to deal with market, regulatory, and financial issues to get the project ready for... View Details