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06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

cost measurement to inform the adoption of a new recuperative approach that promises to dramatically lower post-surgical length of stays. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/112085-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-159 C12 View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

December 2024
Supplement

Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change (B)

By: George Serafeim, Debora L. Spar, Peter Tufano, Hugo Etchegoyhen and Emilie Billaud

The (B) case explores Northvolt’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on November 21, 2024, highlighting the company’s struggles to scale operations amid a global EV market slowdown and internal production challenges. While the (A) case detailed Northvolt’s ambitious... View Details

Keywords: Batteries; Electric Vehicles; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Energy; Green Technology; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Technological Innovation; Risk Management; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transportation; Green Technology Industry; Europe; Sweden

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07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

23-45 billion gallons of gasoline. Sufficient biomass, mainly agricultural and mill residues, will be available at prices of around $50/ton to meet the advanced biofuel mandates of the U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2010
News

This Is What I Do

Bailey notes. “New energy technologies will always penetrate the private sector at the point of greatest weakness: where energy is most expensive.” Â Bailey’s green centerpiece to date is the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

22 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Earth Day 2022 with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative

The speakers were just as varied, from vegan Olympian Seba Johnson to prominent documentary director of Game Changers, Louie Psihoyos. Read More >> Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy By Alsey Davidson There are so... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets

available in the United States. What exactly is Feng shui, and why should a businessperson be interested in it? Feng shui is a method for arranging your living and work spaces so that you may tap into the positive energies in your... View Details

Fast Answer

Construction: environmental building, materials

technologies. (HU PIN) Frost & Sullivan contains technology insight alerts and market reports. (HBS Intranet) REIS - Property profile includes a section on climate risk. Related links: Energy -- a topical section in Fast... View Details

Michel C. Bergerac

Bergerac devoted his energies to increasing the distribution of the company’s core cosmetics lines, which were suffering at the hands of fierce competition. Marketing and advertising schemes became more elaborate but paid off for Revlon,... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

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Elisabeth Ndour

learned that good things happen through trial and error. I knew that my experience at HBS would be richer because of the energy that would be here!” As it turned out, the most challenging part of her FIELD 2 project in Shanghai was the... View Details

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Confronting Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

searching for: climate risk and opportunities "business models" Statista - Find quick statistics, studies, infographics and more. Browse statistics related to View Details

01 Sep 2013
News

The New Tech Meccas

When author and start-up vet Chris Schroeder (MBA 1992) attended a regional entrepreneurship conference in Dubai in 2010, the energy of the crowd was a revelation. "I could not get my head around the idea that this was coming from places... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

John W. Van Dyke

Taking over the debt-ridden firm after it was forcefully spun-off from Standard Oil by the United States Supreme Court, Van Dyke had minimal assets with which to work: only 3 refineries, no marketing structure, and no sales organization. Under Van Dyke’s leadership,... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

Charles G. Bluhdorn

From 1960 to 1965, Gulf and Western’s growth was largely through expansion of its auto parts business. In 1965, Bluhdorn began to move toward diversification. He acquired such companies as New Jersey Zinc Company, Paramount Pictures, the South Puerto Rico Sugar Company... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

Lee R. Raymond

Raymond presided over the rapid growth of Exxon during the nineties. He orchestrated the successful merger of Exxon with Mobil Corporation and extracted over $7 billion of savings from the combined entity. The $81 billion merger was the largest industrial merger in... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

Monroe J. Rathbone

As CEO of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Rathbone is credited for making Jersey Standard into an international company. Seeing problems with an ever increasing dependence on oil from the Middle East, Rathbone had the foresight to push his company to search for alternative... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

Alden J. Laborde

One year after founding the Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company, Laborde had produced the world’s first offshore mobile drilling rig, quickly setting a new standard in the industry. This was followed by a series of new oil drilling innovations including the first... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

Leon Hess

Starting with his father’s little, struggling fuel firm, Hess created a $10 billion oil refinery company, the worlds 13th largest, Amerada Hess. During the Arab oil embargo in 1973, with 68 million barrels of mainland storage capacity, Hess was among the few operators... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

William S. Farish

Farish, who had established himself as one of the leading independent oilmen in Texas, joined with Standard Oil becoming head of the firm in 1937. Farish was one of Standard Oil’s leading authorities on new production concepts and methods, as well as a spokesman for... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

James C. Donnell

Donnell expanded Ohio Oil’s reach to include 16 states and Mexico. Donnell established the Illinois Pipeline Corporation, capitalized at $20 million, to operate the pipeline transportation company of Ohio Oil. In 1924, Donnell acquired Lincoln Oil Refining of Illinois.... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

July 2011 (Revised September 2011)
Case

CEO Compensation at GE: A Decade with Jeff Immelt

By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem

When ISS, a large shareholder advisory group, recommended a "no" vote on Jeff Immelt's award of 2 million stock options in April 2011, GE's compensation committee had to decide whether to rescind or amend the award or ignore the ISS recommendation. Was Immelt's 2010... View Details