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Background Note
| HBS Case Collection
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2008
(Revised from original 1997 version)
Trends in the United States Steel Market,1980-1996
by
Clayton M. Christensen and Bret J. Baird
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Abstract
Provides a brief background on the history and structure of the steel industry in the United States. Focuses in some depth on the technological changes that have been difficult for the leading steel companies to implement. Shows that they stumbled when confronted with sustaining technologies, but may be destroyed by disruptive ones.
Keywords: History;
Technology;
Disruption;
Change Management;
Trends;
Steel Industry;
United States;