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- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
first of four sons born to Larry and his wife, Billie. The firm is one of the largest diversified holding companies in the United States, with interests in commercial insurance, offshore drilling, oil and natural gas production,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
offers: one from an oil and gas company and another from the consulting firm Bain, which had just set up an office in the country in 1997. She turned to longtime friend and chemical engineering classmate Rodrigo Osmo (MBA 2003) for... View Details
- 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 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
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
Alphabet, Shopify, McKinsey, and Meta—committing $925 million to advance carbon removal technologies. There’s a lot of work to do. As of 2022, there were 13 commercial carbon capture and storage facilities in the United States—most associated with the View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
start-ups, made an impassioned plea for the environment. “We can bail out the economy,” he said, “but we can’t bail out the environment,” eliciting sustained applause. Citing the country’s lack of an energy policy, he continued: “America has been borrowing from China... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
rule undermined the country’s trust in public institutions. As a reminder, an oil painting hangs at the focal point of the prime minister’s offices. It depicts the game-changing Battle of Navarino in 1827, when Greece and its allies sank... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
band Midnight Oil and an address by environmental activist Robert Kennedy Jr. (Ron Bull/Toronto Star/Getty Images) More than 900 protesters were arrested in anti-logging demonstrations in British Columbia during the 1990s—a conflict that... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 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
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
of orders suddenly dropped close to zero—many customers had double- and triple-ordered due to shortages caused by the oil price extremes of that decade. I learned two things: (1) a backlog of orders can be illusionary and (2) if your... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Kola Masha's innovative franchise model. It's a revolution that can't come soon enough for Nigeria. The country was once the breadbasket of West Africa until Royal Dutch Shell discovered vast oil reserves in 1958, and the agriculture... 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
- 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
- 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