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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
of healthy, albeit relatively slow, economic growth in the developed world and increasing urbanization in developing economies, we expected to see growing demand for oil and natural gas and a subsequent... View Details
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
off Massachusetts' coastline is the subject of HBS professor Richard Vietor's case study "Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA." The case highlights the challenges and opportunities that face green businesses as they attempt to harness energy from View Details
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
food they consumed to the jobs they took. Environmental quality does behave like a luxury good.— Forest L. Reinhardt All that has changed, partly due to alarming disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 and the 1984 Union Carbide View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
Kenneth S. Adams
Adams climbed the ranks at Phillips Petroleum, beginning as a clerk in the warehouse division. In 1938, when Adams became president, Phillips Petroleum had a gross income of $78 million with 8,000 employees. When Adams retired from that office, Phillips had become the... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
more balanced energy menu. After examining the pros and cons of various energy sources, such as coal, nuclear, natural gas, wind, and solar, the book concludes that conservation (principally through energy efficiency) and solar energy... View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
To answer one of the oldest business quandaries—is it better to partner or go solo on a project—John Beshears looked for answers in an unusual place: the oil and gas drilling industry in the Gulf of Mexico. But instead of mining for... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
illustration of this omission, Apple, a US consumer electronics manufacturer, publicly resigned in 2009 from the US Chamber of Commerce, the largest business lobbying group in the country. "Apple supports regulating greenhouse gas... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in business and in public education
a movie theater company, Loews now has interests in several industries, including commercial property and casualty insurance, hotels, energy exploration, and natural gas and liquids storage and... View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
estimated $80 billion a year in total economic losses, according to the case. The smart grid was touted as the best solution to the problem, allowing for on-demand energy use resulting in greater energy conservation and reduced greenhouse View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Oil Rigs and Ripe Fruit
Financial Times (November 5, 2012), Keppel CEO Choo Chiau Beng (PMD 44, 1982) discussed how the global nature of the oil industry requires a nuanced knowledge of how to do business in a variety of different cultures. As an example, Choo... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- News
Remembering William Wilder
prestigious securities firms (now CIBC Wood Gundy), and of Consumers Gas, at the time the country’s largest natural gas distributor. In addition, he served on the boards of Royal Bank of Canada, Canada Life... View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
enormous impact on the very big problems we're facing in the world today: natural resource scarcity, social inequality, and poverty, as well as on governance issues like product safety and corruption. More and more CEOs are leading their... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
Haroldson L. Hunt
Hunt built the largest independent oil company in the U.S. During World War II, Hunt sold more oil to the Allies than the total German output, and supplied 85% of the natural gas piped into the eastern... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
behavior could possibly arise, lie many examples of highly innovative management: the successful intermediation of the natural gas market, the "gas bank" created by Jeff Skilling, the development... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
community service, and for actively assisting women in their attainment of professional excellence and leadership skills” over her more than 30-year career in the electric and gas industry in the Midwest. It’s fitting that Plato’s words... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change
catastrophe, according to a United Nations report released this week. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that greenhouse gas emissions have increased dramatically in the past decade. They need to be cut by at least 40... View Details