Curtis "Hank" Barnette out boardroom Bethlehem Steel with a sense of peace and purpose. He loved Bethlehem Steel. He saw how it thrives and the reduction in the past 30 years, and he gave much of his life to pass through change. Barnett was a quiet man with gray hair and a serene face. He stopped for a plate-glass window and looked toward the massive blast furnaces and miles of steel structures on the south side of town. It was the American history. So much has happened here: so many lives, families, innovation and purposeful interaction. And now, a special division of coming to an end, at his watch as Chairman and CEO: doors close on Structural Products Division Bethlehem Steel, located in the center of the city of Bethlehem. Or were they? When one door is closed, a window opened somewhere-didn't it? In the current business structure is over, but he had the assets to work with. Land, historical artifacts, city, buildings, goodwill, he spent most of his life creating, and people "Hide
to June West, Rebecca A. Goldberg Source: Darden School of Business 22 pages. Publication Date: December 27, 2011. Prod. #: UV5153-PDF-ENG
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