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- 29 Jan 2018
- Book
How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster
importance of leadership in making it happen. Although mining accidents often present immense hurdles that make rescue unlikely, the situation at Chile’s San Jose copper mine that began on August 5, 2010 was unprecedented on several...
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Trash to treasure: How one CEO is disrupting a legacy industry to save the planet - Blog - Business in Global Society
insulation for buildings. And thrown-away electricity cables can be converted into low-carbon copper and aluminum for future use, reducing demand to pull them from the earth. And gypsum waste can be re-used and turned into new plaster...
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- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
10.” In Peru, Anglo American recently reached agreement with local communities and government to establish a development fund and water infrastructure as part of the company’s Quellaveco copper mine project. This was achieved through a...
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Stephen Birch
Under Birch’s direction, Kennecott Copper experienced impressive growth. In 1915, the firm had 450 employees and $11 million in sales. By the time of Birch’s death in 1940, Kennecott Copper had nearly 29,000...
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Agriculture & Mining
John D. Ryan
Ryan’s negotiation skills helped put an end to bitter competition among Montana copper moguls in the early 1900s. When he assumed control of Anaconda, he capitalized on the increasing importance of copper in...
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Agriculture & Mining
Louis S. Cates
Through acquisitions, such as the Nichols Copper Company, the Calumet and Arizona Mining Company, and the United Verde Copper Company, Cates expanded Phelps-Dodge into an integrated operation in the View Details
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Agriculture & Mining
C. Donald Dallas
Dallas grew Revere Copper & Brass, a merger of six brass and copper companies, into a $100 million annual business. Dallas, keen on communication, wrote a monthly letter, which was sent to the homes of...
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Metals
Daniel Guggenheim
and took control of ASARCO in 1900. Guggenheim bought copper mines and gold fields in Chile, tin mines in Bolivia, and a rubber plantation and diamond mines in the Congo and Angola. Guggenheim became the nation’s most successful miner.
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Metals
- Portrait Project
Valentina Zarya
ended in puberty, but my hair tells the real story. It’s been a dozen different colors over the years: Raven black during a goth phase in high school; varying shades of copper in college; and blonde to test the “they have more fun”...
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- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
MaterialsChile's Copper Surplus: The Road Not Taken (A) Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini, and Renee KimHarvard Business School Case 710-019 In 2008, Andres Velasco, Chile's Finance Minister, was under mounting criticisms over his fiscal...
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Sean Silverthorne
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The International Experience at HBS - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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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 product to make sure your routers or...
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- 21 Feb 2012
- News
Sustainability Is Good Business
business and environmentalists to collaborate to develop sustainable enterprises. He described, for example, how Nature Conservancy scientists are working with Rio Tinto, a global mining behemoth, to craft an environmentally sensitive design for the world’s biggest...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
opted for the walking tour began by visiting an Arab fort and then the Sultan’s Palace — the first building to have electricity in Zanzibar — where we saw exhibits of copper and ivory artifacts, hippo tusks, wooden masks, and weavings. As...
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- 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
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
enhance one's BATNA. Sebenius cites the example of Kennecott Copper Corporation, which a number of years ago was faced with what the company felt might be an eventual government takeover of its mines in Chile. Simply continuing a narrow,...
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Anita M. Harris
- Profile
Kira Epler
the community he had lived in and how it was affected by a copper mine nearby. After hearing his story, I could see the broader impact of a company's decisions, the larger consequences for communities." Giving back Kira has taken an...
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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717498-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-034 Goodbye IMF Conditions, Hello Chinese Capital: Zambia's Copper Industry and Africa's Break with Its Colonial Past Over the past several decades,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Humbulani Dombo
geographies; people who can understand the global dynamics—politics and economics—affecting their markets. It's a very different thing selling platinum for automobile catalytic converters versus copper for steel and construction."...
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Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Deep in the Heart of Texas
only the eleventh regular season perfect game in the majors since 1900. "We have about one-fifth market penetration," notes Winslow. With about one thousand alumni in the Dallas area, new members are enticed to join with events such as a brew pub tour at the View Details
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Amy E. Dean