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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
Ronald (“Bobby”) Escare is one of them. As described in a recent article in Harper’s magazine, Bobby can make $3 on a good day foraging for copper wire and aluminum cans. During the eight years that Bobby has lived in Payatas, three of...
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- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
next-generation robot, a little humanoid named QRIO. Mac Mini. Moments after Apple unveiled its $499 Mac Mini in January 2005, the Internet was buzzing with speculation about just what the new computer was for. Sold without a monitor, mouse, or keyboard, the Mini was a...
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by Youngme Moon
- Web
Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-press-conferences/news-conference-30. Accessed August 21, 2019.52 McLaine in Henderer, A Comparative Study of the Public Relations Practices in Six Industrial Corporations: United State Steel...
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- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
resident Ronald ("Bobby") Escare is one of them. As described in a recent article in Harper's magazine, Bobby can make $3 on a good day foraging for copper wire and aluminum cans. During the eight years that Bobby has lived in...
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by Garry Emmons
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
spread over 45 countries. Comcraft produces steel, plastics, and aluminum products. Chandaria had the option of taking well-paying jobs after his studies in the United States and India in 1951, but opted to take the risk of working in the...
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- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
suppliers, tertiary suppliers such as steel and aluminum manufacturers, the dealer network, and providers of financing, especially GMAC. The task of saving two major auto makers was all the more difficult because the companies appeared...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
have the market we desire.” Days 6–9: Monterrey TOM, REAL TIME: Students quiz executives at Nemak, a leading manufacturer of aluminum auto engine heads and blocks. Nemak is one of four business groups that make up ALFA, a $10 billion...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
McKinsey in Cleveland as well as a Toyota plant in Kentucky. “My biggest immediate challenge when I return to India will be finding the cultural fit again.” Having worked summer jobs as a teenager in a TVS service station and aluminum...
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- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
Azmi, famous actress and political activist; Shinta Kamdani, CEO of Indonesia’s Sintesa Group; and Dr. Manu Chandaria, chair and CEO of the Kenyan-based steel and aluminum group Comcraft. Young Indian woman sorting red chilli peppers,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/816042-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-029 Alcoa's Bid for Alcan (A) In spring 2007, Alcoa CEO Alain Belda was concerned about the company's market position in light of increased competition from developing markets....
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Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
finance and infrastructure finance and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2005 to 2009. Examples of project-financed investments include the $1.4 billion Mozal aluminum smelter in Mozambique,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
long-term goal of buying and managing his own company. Sharpe, who hired his wife, Debby Stein Sharpe (MBA ’81), as CFO, sold Extrusion Technology (an aluminum extrusion fabricator) to a private equity firm in December 2008. In 21 years,...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
backcountry. Usually I’m weighed down with gear: sturdy (but heavy) hiking boots, a pack with an aluminum frame, clothing to layer as needed, and a Windbreaker. On backpacking trips I’ve toted 40 pounds. But on this day all my gear,...
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- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
investments include the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon pipeline, $6 billion Iridium global satellite telecommunications system, $900 million A2 Toll Road in Poland, $1.4 billion Mozal aluminum smelter in Mozambique, and $20 billion Sakhalin II...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
rare earth minerals. For example, aluminum. China is one of the largest manufacturers in the world of aluminum. So you can say, we can get aluminum from Australia, too. There are other places you can get it; we can actually mine it in the...
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