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  • April 2011 (Revised April 2011)
  • Supplement

Fleet Oil Company: An Exercise

The exercise, which adapts a famous experiment by experimental psychologist Thomas Gilovich, is designed to show both the ubiquity of analogy or associative thinking more generally and its potential perils. Students are presented with a scenario in which an oil company... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Non-Renewable Energy; Cost; Production; Performance Productivity; Research and Development; Energy Industry; Atlanta; Houston
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  • 2010
  • Chapter

A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism

By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Robert MacCulloch
We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The measure of beliefs is the answer to a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help... View Details
Keywords: History; Natural Environment; Non-Renewable Energy; Values and Beliefs; Price; Poverty; Policy; Economy; United States
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  • September 1995 (Revised March 1998)
  • Case

Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (B)

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop
YPF, a recently privatized and restructured Argentine-based oil company now turns its attention to international expansion and faces an opportunity to acquire Maxus, a troubled U.S. oil company. The case discusses whether the company should go ahead with the proposed... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Non-Renewable Energy; Globalization; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Privatization; Natural Environment; Expansion; United States; Argentina
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  • 09 Nov 2016
  • News

The Seeds of Learning

manner, and the issues that are facing the planet and what they can do about them. “They don’t know, most of the time, about where their food comes from. We’re incredibly disconnected, in this modern society, from the sources of our food... View Details
  • Web

Hidden Workers: Caregivers - Managing the Future of Work

key metrics compared to traditional sources of talent. With many companies facing a talent shortage, hiring these hidden workers may be the solution. Read the report Hidden Workers: Part-Time Potential By: Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman,... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Selling Digital Privacy

those companies, not to the individuals. The companies in turn resell that information to others, leaving the source of the information — the individual — out of the loop. Today, consumers face a stark choice between blanket do-not-call... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 04 Jan 2021
  • Blog Post

Bringing the Lessons of 2020 into 2021

The student clubs at HBS have remained actively engaged this year and are an important source of career education for their members through newsletters and virtual events. At HBS you’ll find over 50 career-focused clubs including those... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

Managing the Map

to become more business-minded as it routinely faces project deadlines, production goals, and business uncertainties. Eric S. Lander is a day-to-day source of inspiration for those taking on such challenges. A member of the TOM faculty at... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash

electronics thrown away globally every year into a sustainable source of metals for the technologies of tomorrow. BlueOak represents just the sort of fresh thinking that has marked Bradoo's relatively short but notable career path. At age... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; recycling; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • Mar 2012
  • Article

Fixing What's Wrong with U.S. Politics

They seem pulled apart by two starkly different conceptions of government: one viewing the government as inefficient, invasive, and easily corrupted, and another seeing it as a vehicle for solving people's problems. Yet the ideological divide may not be the true View Details
  • 27 Apr 2017
  • News

Going with the Flow

enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells—was her first foray into entrepreneurship. Fisher’s father, however, was reminding her that good intentions need solid financial underpinnings to be... View Details
  • February 2003 (Revised May 2003)
  • Case

Mobile Energy Services Company

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
When Al "Chainsaw" Dunlap became CEO of the Scott Paper Co., the company owned a large, vertically integrated production facility in Mobile, Alabama. Dunlap sold part of the production facility, a cogeneration power plant (later known as Mobile Energy Services Co.), to... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Risk and Uncertainty; Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Investment; Projects; Vertical Integration; Energy Sources; Bonds; Ownership; Restructuring; Energy Industry; Alabama
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  • 2003
  • Working Paper

Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pankaj Ghemawat
This paper analyzes a dynamic mixed duopoly in which a profit-maximizing competitor interacts with a competitor that prices at zero (or marginal cost), with the cumulation of output affecting their relative positions over time. The modeling effort is motivated by... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Competition; Open Source Distribution; Balance and Stability; Applications and Software; Network Effects; Duopoly and Oligopoly
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  • Web

International Students | MBA

www.elmselect.com to explore student loan options and make the choice that is best for them. Personal Loans We encourage international students to investigate all sources of funding within your home country. Many international students do... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Fıelds of Gold

elsewhere, obscuring its source and often producing a lower-quality product. The wholesaler sells the packaged saffron to a distributor. The distributor sells it to a retailer. The retailer sells it to the consumer. Retail price: Average... View Details
Keywords: April White; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture
  • 09 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

world through television and print publications, as they had for decades. There was, however, one big media game changer: the Fox News Channel (FNC). Founded in 1996 by Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch, FNC was an unusual newcomer to the US media. While most... View Details
Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting
  • 09 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 9

potential approaches to establishing evidence of social influence in partially endogenous networks, and they may be especially persuasive in combination. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-136.pdf Technology Innovation and Diffusion as View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

new product lines. The new retail stores could be located in space contiguous to existing Sport-Man stores to make for convenient cross selling opportunities with existing customers. Finally, SMI's competency, developed over the forty-year postwar period, in View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail
  • April 2024 (Revised October 2024)
  • Case

New Belgium Brewing and Climate Change

By: Michael W. Toffel, Kenneth P. Pucker and Michael Norris
In 2023, Colorado-based craft brewery New Belgium Brewing was considering how best to meet its emissions reduction targets. After decades of growth, the beermaker had grown to become one of the largest craft brewers in the U.S., and was purchased in 2019 by Japanese... View Details
Keywords: Beer; Carbon Accounting; Carbon Credits; Operation Management; Renewable Energy; Supply Chain; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Accounting; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Colorado
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  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

universally recognized symbol was three golden balls. In twenty-first century China, where the demand for investment capital exceeds the capacity of the nation’s state-controlled financial sector, pawnshops and other informal sources of... View Details