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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Surviving Success
pilot an oil tanker.” But he asked to participate in the search for his successor, and requested the right to veto a candidate if he felt he or she wouldn’t be a good cultural fit. “Initially we allocated very few pages to the search... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
and oil and gas, that it says could enable value creation to the tune of $2 trillion to $3 trillion in the next decade—a figure on par with the GDP of France or Italy. To create a vision of what that might look like, Professor Yoffie... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
fuels such as oil and gas, but also with wind and solar, whose costs have plummeted over the past decade. Competing power sources are often compared using levelized cost of energy, or LCOE, which is calculated by dividing the lifetime... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
also some sticks and penalties in it. The most important one is probably the first-of-its-kind fee on methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, which is boosting the developing market for equipment to detect and measure methane... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
long-distance oil and gas pipelines are guided by modern regulations and an infrastructure blueprint,” Skelly explains. “But existing US electric lines were erected by utility companies several decades ago, to connect local customers to... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
spent to drill into the deep seismic target, confidential geologic data will reveal to Tony and MillPet a hidden treasure of oil and gas, or that the well is a dry hole. Either way, Tony will go back to his wife and academic life, and... 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 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
- 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 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
WAC that said, “Think more, say less, and try not to smudge oil on your wrinkled WAC!” Pssst, Got Any Ideas about This War? WAC student Bruce Bockmann (MBA ’67) During our first year, my class — about one-third of whom had served in the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
matter. It’s hard to imagine learning the topics better anywhere else. And it was fun going through it as a newly married couple—burning the midnight oil and reading cases together.” The two also shared a passion for outdoor recreation.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
unevenly and somewhat unpredictably, alternately buoyed and buffeted by shifting oil prices, government policies, and consumer tastes. Cox’s Juan Camargo sees an analogy in the gradual adoption of internal-combustion automobiles. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
beginning of the last great surge in oil and gold prices. That fact alone provides a powerful justification for the study of financial history. From The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson. Reprinted by... 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
- 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 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation... 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
- 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
- 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