Nucor’s Steely Resolve for Long-Term Success

With sales of more than $19 billion annually, Nucor (IW 500/64) is a manufacturing powerhouse but it wasn’t always that way. In fact, recalls former CEO Dan DiMicco in his new book American Made: Why Making Things Will Return Us to Greatness , when Ken Iverson brought the former nuclear technology company into the steel business in the 1960s, “the corporation was fighting for its very survival.” read more