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Annual Report 2001
Annual Report Home
Letter to Shareholders
Alcoa's Way
To Grow the Business, Grow the Customer
Outperform in Every Practice, Every Day
Financial Discipline — In Season and Out
Build Up, and Build on Strategic Assets
Steer by the Same Stars
News.01
Overview
Financial and Corporate Data Downloads
Trends in Major Markets
Management Team
Vision and Values

Alcoans seek to translate values into action every day of the year. In business, community, and society, Alcoa is 129,000 people striving for perfection and steering by a clearly stated, shared set of Values.

Aligning the purposes of thousands of people of varying cultures, nationalities and social networks is the unique challenge of a truly global company. In Alcoa’s case, the challenge is heightened by the fact that, due to acquisitions, nearly half of our employees have been with the company less than three years.

As Alcoa has continued to grow in diversity and complexity, the need for a scalable, global management approach has likewise grown. Our solution is to allow our longstanding Values to guide decisions and to “manage” behaviors, cross-culturally.

We have articulated – and seek to live every day – a shared set of Values that answers the question: How does Alcoa do it? These Values set the boundaries to actions; yet, within them, they unleash real freedom for Alcoans to act responsibly and effectively – serving our customers, our communities, and each other.
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