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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
them and do simple maintenance, like cleaning their crucial navigation sensors. Another opportunity is alternative fuels. When cars propelled by electricity or hydrogen go mainstream, someone will have to build a nationwide fuel View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Green Talk at HBS
Before an overflow audience in September, Scott Nyquist (MBA ’84) and Thomas Seitz of McKinsey gave a talk on the “The Future of Energy: How Geopolitics, Environmental, and Supply Risks Are Shaping the Industry.” Drawing on the consulting firm’s research on greenhouse... View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
enormous impact on the very big problems we're facing in the world today: natural resource scarcity, social inequality, and poverty, as well as on governance issues like product safety and corruption. More and more CEOs are leading their... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 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
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
more balanced energy menu. After examining the pros and cons of various energy sources, such as coal, nuclear, natural gas, wind, and solar, the book concludes that conservation (principally through energy efficiency) and solar energy... View Details
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
off Massachusetts' coastline is the subject of HBS professor Richard Vietor's case study "Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA." The case highlights the challenges and opportunities that face green businesses as they attempt to harness energy from View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
technology and global demand. Climate change is making the Arctic accessible in people’s minds. Russia plans to ship oil and liquefied natural gas from its north to East Coast U.S. ports in this decade;... View Details
Kenneth S. Adams
Adams climbed the ranks at Phillips Petroleum, beginning as a clerk in the warehouse division. In 1938, when Adams became president, Phillips Petroleum had a gross income of $78 million with 8,000 employees. When Adams retired from that office, Phillips had become the... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
community service, and for actively assisting women in their attainment of professional excellence and leadership skills” over her more than 30-year career in the electric and gas industry in the Midwest. It’s fitting that Plato’s words... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
of some nebulous wish to do good, however. She's doing it because being smart about water will save these organizations a lot of money. "Providing dramatic improvements in how much water we use, and the natural resources for using water,... View Details
James R. Moffett
In 1981, Moffett orchestrated one of the largest and most profitable mergers in Wall Street history – the merger of his oil exploration company, McMoRan Oil and Gas Company, with Freeport Minerals Corporation – creating a $4 billion... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Oil Rigs and Ripe Fruit
Financial Times (November 5, 2012), Keppel CEO Choo Chiau Beng (PMD 44, 1982) discussed how the global nature of the oil industry requires a nuanced knowledge of how to do business in a variety of different cultures. As an example, Choo... View Details
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 gas piped into the eastern... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 03 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen
which emit a light spectrum that is optimized for rose growing. The transition has reduced energy use by 50% but has also caused a reduction in the amount of heat emitted into the greenhouse. Natural gas... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change
What do Chinese coal plants and the American legislative branch have in common? They are both major adversaries in the fight against climate change, according to former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón. "The most serious problem is in the United States... View Details
- Profile
Konstantin Chebotar
Growing up in a mining town in the Far East of Russia, Konstantin Chebotar naturally gravitated to geoscience and the oil and gas industry. "I observed all these geological processes and overheard... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
this impact: the broad, shallow, positive impact on product prices versus the narrow, deep, negative impact on individuals." These quotes help sum up the nature of the thought-provoking debate stirred by this month's column. On the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett