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- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
in the near future as well. Gasoline and oil are at their lowest prices since 2008, a year that saw oil peak at record highs of $140 a barrel before plummeting to just below $50 by year's end, roughly where it stands again today. Those prices are largely dictated by...
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- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
"That transition will be determined by technological innovation, by how quickly we get better at extracting oil from inconvenient places versus making fuel out of alternative sources, or by commercializing vehicles that will run on something other than View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
infamously changed its name from British Petroleum to Beyond Petroleum in 2001 and recently announced plans to become an “integrated energy company” that also offers fuel from low-carbon sources. "If that...
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- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
that the Chinese companies could buy oil in the highly fungible global marketplace. But Sinopec, the nation's largest refiner, was one of the three companies (together with PetroChina and CNOOC) engaged in the equity oil play. With China's energy demands...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
horizontally across boundaries, without always having to rely on centralized command and a big corporate staff to make sure that the firm is integrated. Q: You point to British Petroleum as an example of a large organization that was able...
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by Mallory Stark
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309088 The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (E) Harvard Business School Supplement 209-082 No abstract is available at this time....
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
cautionary note: ". . . the elephant in the room is the assumption of the availability and cost of petroleum . . . the economics of globalization will change dramatically in the decades ahead." Will what is true for the world...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined...
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by James Heskett
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
Only one bid was accepted: a consortium of the company formerly known as British Petroleum (now BP), the China National Petroleum Company (CNPC), and the Iraqi-state-owned South Oil Company. The consortium...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/511137-PDF-ENG The K-Dow Petrochemicals Joint Venture Guhan Subramanian, James K. Sebenius, Phillip Andrews, and Rhea GhoshHarvard Business School Case 912-002 In 2007, the Dow Chemical Company and the Kuwait View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
they should sell the plant, or whether they should continue current operations. MME must consider ongoing regulatory changes that impacted the industry, the possible impact of imported ethanol, the power of the petroleum industry that...
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- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
nation has contributed importantly to the success. His challenge is to allocate resources among new areas to explore for petroleum and new sources of energy and to develop managers with the capability of leading those businesses in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
Western institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Maurer contends. In the case of the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project, the World Bank is acting as a watchdog to oversee the...
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by Julia Hanna
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Industries - 2006 (TN) Harvard Business School Note 207-097 No abstract available. The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (D) Harvard Business School Supplement 207-087 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
CDB's financing of a major project between Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), Brazil's state-owned oil and gas producer, and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), one of China's largest oil companies. Signed two years...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
Petroleum Co. PLC, and Enel SpA, which made business investments in Russia, are also discussed. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2010/01/the-globe-the-promise-and-peril-of-russias-resurgent-state/ar/1 Do Private Equity-owned Firms Have...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Rocket Internet. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-027 Mexico's Energy Reform Energy—both petroleum and electricity—had been terribly managed for decades in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
the late nineteenth century, and its evolving forms as governments intervened in markets after 1945. Rich joined Philipp Brothers, then the largest commodity trader, in 1954. He formed his own firm two decades later. He was instrumental in the creation of a spot market...
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Carmen Nobel