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  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award

where there is a lot going on to engage the minds and energies of all those kids. There may be a din, there’s almost certainly a mess, but good things are happening.” Get lost: “Daniel Boone was once asked if he’d ever been lost. ‘No,’ he... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

A Piece of the Action

the Valley's "Band of Angels," a group of entrepreneurs who are recycling their capital and energies into new ventures. This month the Center's first two intellectual products will make their debut in Sahlman's Entrepreneurial Finance... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 13 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

An Uncommon Summer: Project Management at an Education Non-Profit

time and energy to something greater than myself. So when I left the Army to attend HBS, I knew I wanted to try and capture that same sense of purpose. Enter fall internship recruiting. While my classmates were all knee-deep in case... View Details
  • 02 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy

her current focus on climate education. “I wanted to create programs that would sustain student learning, programs that would be more impactful than a one-off field trip. These students are our next generation of climate stewards!” Today, Mary Jo is using her funds,... View Details
  • January 2025
  • Case

A Tiger in the Tank: Exxon Sues Investors

By: Clayton S. Rose, Sarah Sasso and James Weber
In June 2024, investors were trying to make sense of ExxonMobil’s (Exxon) lawsuit against two impact investors, Arjuna Capital (Arjuna) and Follow This, that had just been dismissed by the U.S. District Court of Northern Texas. Exxon’s suit challenged the rights of two... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Satisfaction; Decision Making; Demographics; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Leadership; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Adaptation; Investment Activism; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; United States; Netherlands; Norway
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  • June 2023
  • Case

Royal Golden Eagle: Pursuing Cross-border Expansion with Bold Ambition

By: Kristin E. Fabbe, Dante Roscini, Adina Wong and Dawn H. Lau
About how Singapore-based natural resources firm Royal Golden Eagle, starting with a palm oil business in Indonesia, eventually expanded into a global conglomerate that also included the kraft pulp and paper, viscose, and natural gas industries. View Details
Keywords: Singapore; Indonesia; China; Canada; Cross Border; International Trade; Commodities; Expansion; Globalized Firms and Management; Business Conglomerates; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Singapore; Indonesia; China; Canada
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  • Research Summary

Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

Part of the fear and misunderstanding of state capitalism in the post-Berlin Wall era stems from the fact that most observers see state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as inefficient soviet companies. In Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and... View Details

Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Development Banks; State Ownership; Development Economics; Management; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Brazil; China; Europe; Latin America; Asia
  • September 1981 (Revised October 1984)
  • Case

El Paso - PNW Merger (C)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Energy Industry; Energy Industry
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  • June 1997 (Revised May 1998)
  • Case

Mobil USM&R (A2)

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Second of a two-part case on the development and use of a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) at Mobil's US Marketing and Refining Division. This case describes the completed BSC, and how this was linked to the BSCs of the independent business units and the internal service... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Performance Evaluation; Management Teams; Management Practices and Processes; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives; Corporate Strategy; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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  • September 1996 (Revised September 1999)
  • Case

Mobil USM&R (A): Linking the Balanced Scorecard

By: Robert S. Kaplan
The CEO of the marketing and refining division of a major oil company is in the midst of implementing a profit turnaround. He transforms the strongly centralized, functionally-organized division into 17 independent business units and 14 internal service companies. The... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Measurement and Metrics; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Balanced Scorecard; Corporate Strategy; Energy Industry; Energy Industry
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  • Article

Governments as Owners: State-Owned Multinational Companies

By: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Andrew Inkpen, Aldo Musacchio and Kannan Ramaswamy
The globalization of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs) has become an important phenomenon in international business (IB), yet it has received scant attention in the literature. We explain how the analysis of SOMNCs can help advance the literature by... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Corporation; State-owned Enterprises; State Capitalism; FDI; Internationalization; Government And Business; National Oil Companies; State Ownership; Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Acquisition; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; China; India; Europe
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  • July 2011
  • Teaching Note

BP's Macondo: Spill and Response (TN)

By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Teaching Note for 711-021. View Details
Keywords: Energy Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom; United States
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  • November 2006 (Revised July 2021)
  • Case

Kerr-McGee

By: Robin Greenwood and André Perold
Activist investors Carl Icahn and Barry Rosenstein acquire a stake in Oklahoma-based company Kerr-McGee. They demand two board seats and ask the company to make several operational and financial changes, including the repurchase of equity and divestiture of their... View Details
Keywords: Investment Activism; Restructuring; Equity; Investment; Management; Governance Controls; Corporate Strategy; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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  • September 2006 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

GE's Jeff Immelt: The Voyage from MBA to CEO

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Andrew N. McLean
GE believes its ability to develop management talent is a core competency that represents a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Traces the development of a 25-year-old MBA named Jeff Immelt, who 18 years later is named as CEO of GE, arguably the biggest and... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Leadership Development; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Energy Industry; Energy Industry
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  • July 1987 (Revised October 1995)
  • Case

Phillips 66: Controlling a Company Through Crisis

By: Lynda M. Applegate
The downstream operations subsidiary of a major U.S. petroleum company is faced with major restructuring decisions and responds by developing an Executive Information System (EIS) which allows for increased responsiveness, wider span of control, and higher levels of... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Information Management; Governance Controls; Organizational Design; Crisis Management; Communication; Management Teams; Growth Management; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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  • October 2001 (Revised January 2003)
  • Teaching Note

Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (A) and (B), The TN

By: Benjamin C. Esty
Teaching Note for (9-202-010) and (9-202-012). View Details
Keywords: Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Chad
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  • September 1975 (Revised September 1977)
  • Case

Black Diamond Coal Co. (A)

By: Steven C. Wheelwright
Keywords: Energy Industry; Energy Industry
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  • 03 Feb 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?

pot, “we need to channel the energy through coaching to effectively use the energy.” Shann Turnbull commented that rebel talent often encounters the real problem: us. As he put it, “humans, like all other social creatures, are hardwired... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

manager-has no real appreciation of what a marvel it is. But management is not leadership. Leadership is about setting a direction. It's about creating a vision, empowering and inspiring people to want to achieve the vision, and enabling them to do so with View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
  • 15 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch