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company Excara and switched to selling enterprise software for managing product content. In 2002, he started two nonprofits in response to the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. He is currently acting VP of Product Strategy for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
some of the personal details of how and where they grew up—and how that shaped the person they are today. Photos by Susan Young READ MORE Julia Hanna: John Hess (MBA 1977) is CEO of Hess Corporation, a global independent energy company... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
http://www.smi.ethz.ch/news/news/docs/ResearchAlive.pdf An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms Authors:R. Ely and D. E. Meyerson Publication:Research in Organizational Behavior 30 (2010)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
looked to scale, it was exploring partnerships with various incumbent firms-the most serious were with a set of international oil and gas production companies (IOCs); a global View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
The coronavirus shock has disrupted more than jobs, supply chains, and financial markets. Your customer has changed fundamentally, too. The number one task for many companies now is discovering where their B2C and B2B customers have moved... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
L.E. Simmons
Simmons & Company, an investment banking firm specializing in the oil field service industry. "It's a fascinating industry that encompasses all the businesses that manufacture a product or provide a service that is used by View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
1955 and became the owner and president of Pan-Atlantic, which he renamed SeaLand Industries. The maiden voyage for McLean's converted oil tanker, the Ideal X, carried fifty-eight new box trailers or containers from Port Newark, New... View Details
- 04 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
How To Do Business in Islamic Countries
almost a "third sex," since most companies send men on the assumption that men will be more acceptable. "Women seem to be able to get to people quicker than the men can," he observed. Forward And Back Membership in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
pots and pans and numerous other items, became chairman of Alcoa. Edward Prizer, who became president of Vacuum Oil in 1918, made his reputation by organizing the firm's domestic and foreign sales operations. Clarence Mott Woolley,... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
job."1 It was remarkable that the corporate image of a company whose brands were so well known, and whose operations were so widespread, was so indistinct. There were times between the 1960s and 1990 when Unilever appeared amorphous.... View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
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McCollum Center | About
where he served as chairman from 1947 to 1972. Leonard McCollum (1902-1993) gained a reputation as a skilled oil industry leader during his early career with Standard Oil. He joined Continental Oil when it... View Details
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
partner at Lehman Brothers, assumed leadership of the firm in 1969, the first non-family member to do so. The investment house suffered a decline in business aggravated by the oil crisis in 1973. That year, Peter Peterson, formerly... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
from Colombia) and against the new Panamanian government (to get a better deal for the Panama Canal). The Colombians wanted to hold out until 1904 to make a deal with the United States to build a canal. The reason was that the properties of the failed French canal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Corporation, the multibillion-dollar conglomerate founded by her grandfather, Laurence Tisch. The company’s holdings extend from hotels to oil and gas, and the Tisch name graces hospitals, museums, and art galleries across New York City.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
active HBS volunteer who is president of Houston's Simmons & Company International, an investment bank specializing in the oil service and equipment industry. "Education has always been very important to our... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
disadvantaged communities. Issues like racial and economic equity are central to this, and this will be the definition used for the purposes of this paper. EJ policy and company practices often uses terms like “communities;” the Justice40... View Details
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Historical Data & Sources - Business History
the World J.G. Bartholomew, ed., Atlas of the World's Commerce (London: George Newnes, 1907), p. 22-23, map. Crude Oil Flow T. T. Connors, An Examination of the International Flow of Crude Oil, with Special Reference to the Middle East... View Details
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
Working PapersNone available this week Cases & Course MaterialsThe Company Sale Process Author:William E. Fruhan Jr. Harvard Business School Note 206-108 Lays out the steps, timeline, and process by which a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne