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  • April 1995
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Phelps Dodge Corporation

By: W. Carl Kester and Kendall Backstrand
  • Format:Print
  • | Language:English
  • | Pages:12
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Abstract

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.

Keywords

Diversification; Price; Volatility; Risk Management; Mining Industry; Arizona; United States

Citation

Kester, W. Carl, and Kendall Backstrand. "Phelps Dodge Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 295-132, April 1995.

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W. Carl Kester

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