Case Study · Steel

    Oregon Steel Mills: 20x shareholder return

    How a multi-site steel producer reached record profitability and a 20x shareholder return, and what its leaders owned after we left.

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    The situation (1998)

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    What we did

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    • [PLACEHOLDER] The leadership work that ran alongside it. Replace this text.

    The mechanism

    Why it worked

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    • [PLACEHOLDER] What changed in how decisions were made and tracked. Replace this text.
    • [PLACEHOLDER] Why the change held once attention moved elsewhere. Replace this text.

    The result

    20x

    Stock value growth

    2,500+

    Employees

    $1B+

    Revenue

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    What they owned afterward

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