Oil Companies - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

Working PapersA Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra, and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Oct 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

industries ranging from oil refining to scientific instruments. But how do user innovations take place? How do they get to market? HBS professor Carliss Baldwin discusses her research on the rodeo kayak industry to understand the world of... View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

"we have a worldwide mission: to become leading corporate citizens." In several cases, this mandate was the result of traumatic experiences or scandals that required huge efforts on the part of companies to repair damaged... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

01 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

When Do Alliances Make Sense?

To answer one of the oldest business quandaries—is it better to partner or go solo on a project—John Beshears looked for answers in an unusual place: the oil and gas drilling industry in the Gulf of Mexico. But instead of mining for... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities

21 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

industry: dry bulk carriers, which primarily carry iron ore, coal, and grains; cargo ships, run by companies like Maersk that rent container space; and fuel tankers. In 2011, Dry bulk ships made up about 40 percent of the shipping... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

innovations, or selling services—to step up and lead without a hierarchy. Consumer marketing companies are lining up to use these networks to reach their tailored demographics with highly personalized messages. Already they are... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Mar 2016
First Look

March 15, 2016

behavior and ways to counter it with information on why to give. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50771 Voluntary, Self-Regulatory, and Mandatory Disclosure of Oil and Gas View Details

22 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

government-mandated requirements to a 3-inch endangered bait fish. When Good Deeds Invite Bad PublicityMany executives assume that investments in corporate social responsibility create public goodwill. But do they? Felix Oberholzer-Gee and colleagues find surprising... View Details

12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

into electricity. The Jacobs Wind Energy Company would soon be a major player in creating machines that would electrify rural areas across America, and eventually be sold on all five continents. “We've lost the plot of these entrepreneurs... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 7

levels of aid. We call these joint phenomena the political transfer problem and argue that the largest windfall of the 20th century, the period from 1973 to 1985 during which oil prices were at all-time highs, produced long-run political... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

a permanent reality in corporate boardrooms—whether or not executives have a deep-seated passion for the social issues involved. Expectations are changing, agreed panelists. Oil corporations, for example, are well versed in the standard... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

a dealer's back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world's largest automaker, a... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

transformational process hypothesized in their study may also be applicable to companies in newly emerging economies outside Latin America, such as Eastern Europe, northern Africa, China, and India. Setting out on their research, Oliva... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

30 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 30

http://hbr.org/search/613083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-027 Société Internationale de Plantations et de Finance (SIPEF) Management of a company with extensive palm oil tree plantations... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

have been experimenting with integrated project delivery—a collaborative process that involves unprecedented teamwork and shared decision making throughout a design and building project. A number of companies are developing... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

04 Oct 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go

When does a company founder have to go? In the frenzied, early months of a new venture's launch, few entrepreneurs anticipate a future beyond their role as company leader. In the case study "Founder–CEO... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Technology

21 May 2001
Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

confides HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter in the introduction to her essay in Management 21C called "Kaleidoscope Thinking." "I was sitting in a Singapore ballroom when the British head of a global oil View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

maximizing regional opportunities. Ghemawat discusses five regional strategies while leaving the meaning of a "region" open for interpretation. This excerpt describes the challenges of designating a meaningful definition of region for your View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them (Harvard Business School Press, 2003), a new book about turnarounds, "successful managers exhibit a close alignment between what they commit to and who they are—and disconnects... View Details

Keywords: by Theodore Kinni

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