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  • 11 Jul 2017
  • News

The Right Thing to Do

and the 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia, which killed 39 people. At the time, the company was run by Don Blankenship, a hard-charging CEO who put profit ahead of safety. In the... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
  • June 1997 (Revised May 1998)
  • Case

Mobil USM&R (A2)

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Second of a two-part case on the development and use of a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) at Mobil's US Marketing and Refining Division. This case describes the completed BSC, and how this was linked to the BSCs of the independent business units and the internal service... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Performance Evaluation; Management Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Strategy; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; United States
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  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

New Leadership for Executive Education

executives charged with spearheading the company’s executive development efforts, including a global diversity and inclusion transformation. At BP, she created a comprehensive leadership development program, expanded existing emerging... View Details
Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction
  • 10 Jun 2014
  • News

Finance Minister Addresses Canada-US Energy Concerns

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction
  • April 1999 (Revised February 2001)
  • Background Note

Offshore Drilling Industry, The

After booming in 1997 and early 1998, the offshore drilling industry slumps in late 1998 and early 1999. Lower oil prices lead oil companies to reduce drilling budgets, and rig utilization falls from essentially 100% to 70% in some markets. Day rates--the prices paid... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Price; Supply and Industry; Mining Industry
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    Donald H. McLaughlin

    McLaughlin spent 55 years with Homestake Mining creating the largest supplier of gold in the United States. An ardent supporter of the gold standard, McLaughlin was equally adept as both a hands-on miner and... View Details
    Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
    • 17 May 2016
    • First Look

    May 17, 2016

    https://global.oup.com/academic/product/consumers-corporations-and-public-health-9780190235123?facet_narrowbytype_facet=Books%20for%20Courses&lang=3n&cc=us# 2016 Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance Antonio Serra and the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Plato Malozemoff

      Struggling to find a job during the depression, the Russian-born immigrant, accepted an entry level engineering position with Newmont in 1945. Nine short years later, Malozemoff took the helm of Newmont Mining that, at the time, was... View Details
      Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
      • 11 Jun 2015
      • News

      Innovative Strategy Would Speed the Transition to a Lower-Carbon Energy Future

      Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction
      • 28 May 2014
      • News

      Using Microorganisms to Extract Oil

      Keywords: Glori Energy; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction
      • 05 Jun 2018
      • News

      Fueling the Future

      and marketing director to head of innovation. After years at Covanta, a waste-to-energy business, she now runs Fueled for Growth, an energy consulting company, while devoting her personal energies to helping women View Details
      Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction
      • 26 Apr 2011
      • News

      BioMine Strikes Gold

      Contest. BioMine uses existing scaled-up mining industry technologies to capture value from the 40 million tons of "e-waste" that is landfilled or incinerated annually around the world. (Watch Bradoo explain the concept behind BioMine.)... View Details
      Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining (except Oil and Gas)
      • February 1998
      • Case

      Lyondell Petrochemical Company

      By: Jay W. Lorsch and Daniel P. Erikson
      In August 1994, Lyondell Petrochemical Co.'s corporate parent and largest single shareholder effectively shed its stock, resulting in the resignation of 5 of its 11 directors. The remaining outside directors immediately acted to overhaul the executive compensation plan... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Design; Business or Company Management; Management Teams; Mining Industry
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      • 26 Sep 2014
      • News

      Here’s the Young Wheeler-Dealer with a Wildcatter’s Heart

      Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction
      • Article

      From Blood Diamonds to Dirty Gold: How to Buy Gold Less Tainted by Mercury

      By: Kristin Sippl
      This is a quick and easy news article on the link between poverty, mercury pollution, and gold mining. It explains the problems in the jewelry industry as well as public and civil society attempts to address them. View Details
      Keywords: Mining; Pollutants; Poverty; Social Issues
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      • September 1991
      • Case

      All American Pipeline

      By: Timothy A. Luehrman
      Goodyear is nearing its first major capital commitments for the largest investment project in its history, the All American Pipeline. The pipeline will transport heavy crude oil from California to Texas. It is the centerpiece of a major program by Goodyear to diversify... View Details
      Keywords: Capital; Financial Strategy; Business Startups; Diversification; Valuation; Standards; Supply Chain; Resource Allocation; Cash Flow; Mining Industry; California; Texas
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      • 30 Jun 2020
      • Book

      Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

      based on those forecasts, the highlights of their observations, and prescriptive thoughts based on our analysis of their ideas. The executives identified 10 powerful forces that had the potential to disrupt... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace

        Arturo Acevedo

        Keywords: Steel and Mining
        • 10 Dec 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: December 10

        from "real work." But when Google's people analytics team examined the value of managers, applying the same rigorous research methods the company uses in its operations, it proved the skeptics wrong. Mining data from employee... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • August 2012 (Revised March 2013)
        • Case

        Preem (A)

        By: Bo Becker, Annelena Lobb and Aldo Sesia
        High yield bond fund Proventus Capital Partners (PCP) has invested in underwater bonds issued by Preem, a large oil refinery. As maturity approaches, in the midst of financial crisis, Preem appear unlikely to be able to refinance. Meanwhile, Prreem has a complicated... View Details
        Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Restructuring; Courts and Trials; Negotiation; Bonds; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Europe
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