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- January 2021
- Case
Rio Tinto Aluminum: Can Purpose Lead to Profit?
By: David Fubini and Agastya Muthanna
This case describes the tradeoffs Rio Tinto faces as it considers investments to ensure environmentally friendly, sustainability produced aluminum with the potential risks of competitive pricing and profit loses.
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- Portrait Project
Stephanie Parker
considerable power and influence? Apparently not, or at least not me. Mine will be a life of service. You won't find me padding around on the soft carpet, sipping coffee in an ivory tower, engaging with others in ways which are long on...
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Monica Haugen
everyone is lucky enough to begin down such a path. I can only hope to change someone else's life in the way that mine was changed. Consequently, my master plan is to expose new options to all those around me. I will tell my children and...
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Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Best Company, 1899-1938). Note: issue from 1909 online with Google Copper Curb and Mining Outlook; the Truth Regarding Mining and Investments Throughout the World (New York: O.F. Jonassen & Co. [etc.],...
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Research Links: Photographs
Papers include 111 stereographs and photographs taken by F. Jay Haynes, the official photographer for the Northern Pacific Railway. Haynes' images were intended to promote the region and encourage further settlement. He recorded railroad construction and operations,...
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Stereograph Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Haynes, whose images were meant to promote the region and encourage further settlement, recorded towns, settlements, new construction, military garrisons, miners, mining villages, farms, Native American settlements, and natural scenery...
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Jason George
living without formal power has greater potential for changing the world than the grasping that often defines us. I will care less about temporal things and rely more on daily grace, because it is sufficient. If I am strong enough I will bear hardships ungrudgingly,...
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Sanjayan Manivannan
I want to make magic happen. The same magic that I felt when I saw an airplane take off in the distance as I nervously waited for mine to do the same. Winter's first snow in Boston and the searing chill I felt on my bare feet. The...
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Nelly-Ange Kontchou
soil for latching onto every crease of my clothing when we got home. It wouldn’t leave me be. Before the start of business school, I step off the plane at Douala International Airport and into the suffocating heat. As I look out the exit doors, a sea of faces and...
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- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
this case: http://hbr.org/product/carbon-engineering/an/814040-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 414-019 Cynthia Carroll at Anglo American (A) In 2007, Cynthia Carroll, the newly appointed chief executive of mining giant Anglo...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2016
- News
Many Voices Working Toward a Solution
problem of how do you get multiple creative people to work together more effectively to solve the seemingly intractable problems of the world that don’t fit within a neat categorization. “A partner of mine and I have been engaged in a...
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Elliot, Dealer in Seeds seeds :134 18 1 1 Humboldt Nickel & Copper Co. mining :31 Series II (VIA) only Iron Bay Manufacturing Co. foundry :31 1 1 Drake Company granite :383 Series II (VIA) only H.M. Phelps, Steam Granite Works granite...
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- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
endured years of poverty, conflict, and corruption. “I’m passionate about the difference technology can make in people’s lives,” he says. In six months, Khoja and his workforce of willing yet largely untrained workers had cleared roads of land View Details
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Greta Gerazimaite
today, my opinion is no longer mine alone. My voice carries weight, and I feel a responsibility to speak up. I want to raise more voices than I silence. I want to inspire those who doubt themselves – like I did, and still sometimes do –...
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Partners - Managing the Future of Work
technologies to build detailed awareness of what is happening in the labor market in real time. Burning Glass collects and analyzes job postings from close to 30,000 online sources and then deploys advanced proprietary text mining to...
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T.J. Root
I wonder if I’ll rediscover a sense of purpose. Or feel brave again. Is this life of mine still just as wild and precious, here at the end of my fourth decade? I once worried that I came to HBS too late. Now, I think I arrived right on...
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- July 1997
- Teaching Note
Phelps Dodge Corporation (TN)
By: W. Carl Kester
Teaching Note for (9-295-132).
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- April 1995
- Case
Phelps Dodge Corporation
By: W. Carl Kester and Kendall Backstrand
A prolonged decline in copper prices prompts Phelps Dodge, one of the world's largest independent copper companies, to consider corporate diversification as a means of protecting itself from copper price volatility.
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Keywords:
Diversification;
Price;
Volatility;
Risk Management;
Mining Industry;
Arizona;
United States
Kester, W. Carl, and Kendall Backstrand. "Phelps Dodge Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 295-132, April 1995.
- October 1975 (Revised April 1980)
- Case
Gulfport Mining, Inc.
By: Thomas R. Piper
Keywords:
Mining Industry
Piper, Thomas R. "Gulfport Mining, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 276-112, October 1975. (Revised April 1980.)