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- November 2019
- Case
Chile: Unrest in the Copper Nation
By: Laura Alfaro and Sarah Jeong
For decades, Chile was heralded as South America’s pillar of stable economic growth. Chile was the world’s largest producer of copper and enjoyed a long period of over 30 years of world demand for its resources. In 2013, the commodity boom ended and was replaced by a...
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Keywords:
Copper Production;
Protests;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Metals and Minerals;
Production;
Price;
Mining Industry;
Chile
Alfaro, Laura, and Sarah Jeong. "Chile: Unrest in the Copper Nation." Harvard Business School Case 320-051, November 2019.
- January 2020
- Teaching Note
Chile: Unrest in the Copper Nation
By: Laura Alfaro and Sarah Jeong
For decades, Chile enjoyed the stability of being the world’s largest producer of copper. Keynes would have advised that this period of growth would have been the time for the government to save, that “the boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the...
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- February 1993 (Revised September 1993)
- Case
AT&T Copper Cable Products
Dees, J. Gregory. "AT&T Copper Cable Products." Harvard Business School Case 393-112, February 1993. (Revised September 1993.)
- August 2007
- Case
Codelco Copper Mines
Codelco was a Chilean copper-mining company, widely considered to be one of the most professionally managed firms in South America in spite of the fact that it was 100% government-owned. A $10.5 billion company in 2005, Codelco faced the challenge of incorporating...
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Keywords:
Mining;
Geographic Location;
Leading Change;
Business Processes;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Information Technology;
Mining Industry;
Chile
Upton, David M., Virginia Fuller, and Bradley R. Staats. "Codelco Copper Mines." Harvard Business School Case 608-053, August 2007.
- March 2010 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (A)
By: Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini and Renee Kim
In 2008, Andres Velasco, Chile's Finance Minister, was under mounting criticisms over his fiscal policy. As the world's largest copper producer, Chile was benefiting from the rise in copper prices, which had more than tripled since 2003. Copper revenues translated into...
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Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Economic Growth;
Metals and Minerals;
Investment Funds;
Policy;
State Ownership;
Wealth;
Chile
Alfaro, Laura, Dante Roscini, and Renee Kim. "Chile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (A)." Harvard Business School Case 710-019, March 2010. (Revised May 2013.)
- 12 Mar 2024
- HBS Case
How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones
electronic and camera modules, Apple’s partners extracted gold and copper equal to raw material mined from more than 2,000 metric tons of rock, the case study notes. “What footwear companies such as Nike are trying to do, they're trying...
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- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally, despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to globalization. The process was difficult and complex. The globalization of toiletries...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
are significantly different to the inter-industry vertical FDI visible at the two-digit level. These subsidiaries are not readily explained by the comparative advantage considerations in traditional models, where firms locate their low skill View Details
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Martha Lagace
- January 1997 (Revised June 1997)
- Case
Southwire: Beyond 2000
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
Southwire, based in Carrollton, GA, was the leading producer of aluminum and copper rod, wire, and cable for the transmission and distribution of electricity. In one decade, CEO Roy Richards, Jr. grew annual sales from $500 million in 1985 to $1.9 billion in 1995, an...
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Keywords:
Leading Change;
Growth Management;
Competitive Strategy;
Global Strategy;
Manufacturing Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Melissa Dailey. "Southwire: Beyond 2000." Harvard Business School Case 397-074, January 1997. (Revised June 1997.)
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
in the world. Productivity was stagnant and economic growth had slowed down significantly since the 1990s. What should Velasco do amid growing public discontent? Was it really in Chile's best interest to keep saving the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Technology Corporation, 1971–1983 Hans W. BechererDeere & Company, 1989–2000 Stephen D. BechtelBetchel Corporation, 1935–1960 Garner A. BeckettAmerican Cement Corporation, 1936–1957 Arnold O. BeckmanBeckman Instruments, 1935–1982 Edward T. BedfordCorn View Details
- Web
Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
groups at HBS. Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, and investor, and currently serves as Adobe's chief product officer and executive vice president for Creative Cloud. Belsky is a venture partner with Benchmark and an early advisor and...
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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
implications of these effects for inventory management. To do that, we analyze data from a leading U.S. retailer who introduced a “ship-to-store” (STS) functionality that allows customers to ship products to their local store free of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Trash to treasure: How one CEO is disrupting a legacy industry to save the planet - Blog - Business in Global Society
governments. BOSTON – May 12, 2023 – Why is the CEO of Norway’s largest waste management company preparing for a world with less trash, the very product from which the company profits? Simple: The old model isn’t sustainable. “You can’t...
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- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
concludes that, if the evidence presented is representative, the variation observed in financial development around the world today is likely a product of events of the twentieth century rather than a consequence of long-term (and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
Download Carroll profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1956 Born, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1978 Earns BS, Geology, Skidmore College 1982 Earns MS, Geology, University of Kansas 1982 Joins Amoco Production...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
test network software and hardware by injecting impairments like errors or delays into network traffic on fiber-optic or copper cable. If you are an equipment maker or network manager, you can use our View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead
Ballast Point built a new brewery in 2014, featuring a copper brew house three times the size of its previous system. (Courtesy Ballast Point Brewing and Spirits) Ballast Point built a new brewery in 2014, featuring a View Details
- Web
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
political, and economic institutions are able to coordinate private decisions on stable and productive paths. Where institutional development is weak - as seems to be the case in much of the developing world - private actions are poorly...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
production and exports. As a member of the entrepreneurs union and chief of its economic commission, I am quite active in the ongoing work of labor and government relations to better our economic environment. The key for us will be to...
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