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Alcoa’s CEO Is Remaking the Industrial Giant

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Robin Goldwyn Blumenthal
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For most of its 127 years, Alcoa, one of the world’s largest aluminum producers, was hostage to economic swings and commodity prices. Pricing still matters greatly to the company, but aluminum trends no longer buffet Alcoa’s earnings as much as they did even a decade ago.

Alcoa (ticker: AA) and its shareholders have CEO Klaus Kleinfeld to thank for that. Since becoming boss in 2008, Kleinfeld, now 57, has lessened the company’s dependence...

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