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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
the café. “It’s the oil that makes the engine move,” Marietta says of Appalachian culture. “It took over 150 years to develop, and it’s dependent on the geographic isolation and biodiversity of the area. You can’t replicate it.” “It’s the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
Scorpio hybrid, India’s first indigenous hybrid vehicle. We hope to have it available in U.S. showrooms before long! What keeps you up at night? Oil at well over $100 per gallon and customers who don’t believe we’ve delivered on our... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
further objective is to support economic growth, with “affordable” prices for energy and avoidance of supply interruptions. The conflicts among these are apparent. ANWR drilling (Alaska) would be economical and reduce foreign oil... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
fragmented and on their own. “I cannot think of another industry as large or as fundamental as agriculture that is structured that way,” says Baron. “It’s as if every oil well was owned by a different family, while the industry is... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
million into sixty shares, thirty of which were kept by his owners. “We sold the rest and bought ten for ourselves. We decide on a case-by-case basis how much equity we’ll take of the horse we’re syndicating. The investment side is where you hit it big or you don’t.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
Harold M. Brierley (MBA '68), chairman and CEO of Brierley & Partners, describes himself as "an accidental entrepreneur," having entered HBS as a chemical engineer planning to pursue a management career in the oil industry. "HBS... View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
the hot career path at the time. “I loved the intellectual challenge in working with really smart people,” recalls Weinstein. “What I didn’t enjoy very much was that I didn’t actually care whether or not Shell Oil of Canada made an extra... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
personal data collection have a surprising ally: Scott Howe. Why? Because it's good for business. "How people think about data is going to change seismically in the coming years," says Howe. "Each of us will manage the data that is created around us. We'll think of it... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
masterminded a unique way to provide Singapore's oil refineries and chemical companies with the land they desperately needed to keep growing. By joining seven of Singapore's southern islands with landfill to form what is now known as... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
beyond the bottom line, and so we need to have all that data ready to sort of slowly move that that oil tanker around. >Hi, I'm Georgia Zocca (GMP 23) from the General Management Program in 2017. My question is, if we want to invest in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
business boot camp. Around the time of our last reunion, his extensive, twenty-year study of our class culminated in The New Rules, a book that not only documented our careers but also revealed the cataclysmic nature of the changes taking place in American business.... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
Arthur ("Dick") Watson and his brother Tom, the head of IBM; and several members of Cleveland's Corning clan, whose assets came from, among other things, oil and banking. In 1966, with the addition of the Ayer-Rice Trust, which oversaw... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Green Talk at HBS
Before an overflow audience in September, Scott Nyquist (MBA ’84) and Thomas Seitz of McKinsey gave a talk on the “The Future of Energy: How Geopolitics, Environmental, and Supply Risks Are Shaping the Industry.” Drawing on the consulting firm’s research on greenhouse... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
were made with oil and industrial egg product “so pale you could hardly tell the yolk from the white,” says Viana. The factory manufactured madeleines for generic store brands—the product could end up anywhere, under any label. Morale and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
BP oil spill,” the 2010 disaster that devastated the environment and businesses along the Gulf Coast, including in the small town south of New Orleans where he grew up. Bagala watched his father’s business falter and then fail in the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
public service. He worked as the administration’s point man in dealing with that year’s crisis in the world oil supply. After Nixon resigned in 1974, he went to the White House to serve as counsel to newly appointed Vice President Nelson... View Details
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
labor, calling it “a reputational risk to the company that’s not just, and not fair.” Before coming to HBS, Alexis Jackson was an oil and gas industry engineer. Now, she is co-president of the HBS African-American Student Union (AASU),... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
French government subsidies. Since 90 percent of a conventional resort’s electricity bill would go to air conditioning, Bailey calculates the SWAC system saves about $500,000 per year; thus his investment will be returned in about 7.4 years. SWAC also saves about... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
19th-century textile mogul Francis Cabot Lowell, oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller, and technology titan Bill Gates. "It was a great way to start the program, because it gave us a background and context for what's happening in business... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
which can be broken down, processed into rocket fuel, and used to refuel these satellites—all without ever returning to Earth. The technology exists, Landon says; companies are just waiting for the first galactic oil well to be dug, so to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley