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Armand Hammer
Hammer expanded Occidental Oil from a tiny, near-bankrupt California oil firm into one of the “Big Oil” companies - turning it into a conglomerate, beginning with the... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Ross S. Sterling
Using proceeds from his feed store business, Sterling began investing in oil wells in 1909. Forming Humble Oil with several other astute oil businessmen, Sterling led his View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Eugene Holman
Holman’s greatest contribution to the company came soon after his election as chairman, when he began negotiating for 30% of the stock of the Arabian-American Oil Company, enjoying special concessions for... View Details
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Arab American Heritage Month | Baker Library
President of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. from 1995 to 2000 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from 1996 to 2003. Early corporate filings for Goodyear are part of Baker's corporate reports collection . Farouk Shami founded Farouk Systems, Inc., a hair care View Details
Howard B. Keck
Assuming leadership of his father’s company at the age of 50, Keck focused his energies on growing the independent oil firm. He invested heavily in energy exploration and production, allowing Superior to... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
John H. Pew
John Pew, along with his younger brother Joseph Jr., took control of their father's company in 1912. The Pew brothers grew it from a small firm, with just a 0.9% share of the overall industrial production of oil, into the country's 15th... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
William L. Mellon
Under Mellon’s management, the firm became a pioneer on several fronts. He opened the nation’s first service stations in 1913 became and expanded into international oil exploration. By the mid-1920s, Gulf’s refinery at Port Arthur, Texas,... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Harry F. Sinclair
After ill-fated attempts to make money by buying and selling oil leases, Sinclair entered the refining business in 1906, acquiring several companies that were eventually consolidated into Sinclair Oil. Once... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
John E. Swearingen
Swearingen took over the inefficient Standard Oil of Indiana in 1960. He streamlined its operations and aligned its business units while expanding Standard’s exploration of both domestic and foreign oil. By the end of his tenure, he had... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
competed on the fee charged per barrel and the amount by which they promised to increase production. At the same time, the Kurdish regional government continued to sign Production Sharing Agreements with foreign companies for its View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Haroldson L. Hunt
Hunt built the largest independent oil company in the U.S. During World War II, Hunt sold more oil to the Allies than the total German output, and supplied 85% of the natural... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
An Unconventional Suggestion
minimize the local environmental impact of extraction, and speed the transition to cleaner, lower-carbon energy. The report’s analysis found “no inherent trade-off between environmental protection and company profitability” and found that... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
"While the energy industry has been in the forefront of a demand for more information from a broad group of stakeholders, this demand is becoming more and more common across almost all firms. Thus, the oil View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Closing the ‘Intention-Action’ Gap
Review entitled “The Elusive Green Consumer” in fact describes findings suggesting that while “65% [of consumers] said they want to buy purpose-driven brands that advocate sustainability, only about 26% actually do so.” The authors proceed to argue that View Details
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General File - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Collections Site Credits General File Photograph Collection, ca. 1860–1975 Drilling, photograph by Dick Whittington , Los Angeles, California. Mss: 1415 1860–1975 G326 19 boxes, approx. 1,250 photographs Collection Guide From whaling ships to View Details
Edward G. Jefferson
Jefferson is credited with streamlining duPont’s operations and diversifying its portfolio – setting the stage for a new era in the company’s history. His purchase of Conoco in 1981 dramatically changed the duPont landscape providing a ready supply of View Details
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Emerging Topics - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Oil and Gas and Mining Sectors’ Companies and Communities On Investors’ Role: “Directing capital to companies that can use it productively is ultimately the most profound... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
offering a brand of all-natural facial moisturizing oils derived from argan oil, obtained from southern Morocco’s argan tree. The company will work with the rural poor to build sustainable business around... View Details
Herman Brown
Brown built one of the world’s largest construction companies - Brown and Root, Incorporated. Brown also developed subsidiaries that included hotels, oil and gas producing properties, paper mills, mines,... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate