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- 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
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BRADOO: Mining old tech for gold by Constantine von Hoffman When most people's phones break, all they see is a problem. Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) sees an opportunity. Bradoo is the cofounder and CEO of BlueOak Resources, a company... View Details
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
Tell us about what you were doing before HBS and what brought you to HBS. Prior to HBS, I spent six years in the oil and gas industry working primarily on taking technologies in the energy space from the lab to the field. Being exposed to... View Details
- Profile
Bei Guo
As an analyst at Citigroup in Japan, Bei Guo gained firsthand experience on the impact of equity capital markets on Asian business. "There are many excellent companies in Japan," Bei says, "and China is on a growth path in... 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
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
company and biggest taxpayer,” Abdelal explains. Russia, he adds, also views Gazprom revenues as a means to make its economy less dependent on the energy sector in the long term. Abdelal notes that because natural gas is much cleaner than... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
to clean oil spills Bickley Stevens II (MBA 1969) Stevens Capital Advisors Cambridge, Massachusetts Advisory and investment banking services to clean-technology companies and investors Alexander Taussig (MBA... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
first of four sons born to Larry and his wife, Billie. The firm is one of the largest diversified holding companies in the United States, with interests in commercial insurance, offshore drilling, oil and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
bullet hole in his car Courtesy David Horgan David J. Horgan (MBA ’86) is the managing director of the oil companies Petrel Resources and Pan Andean, based in Dublin, Ireland. Baghdad last June was a crazy... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Gregory Slayton (MBA '90)
working at McKinsey & Co. in the early 1990s, he cofounded its Multimedia Practice Group and was soon recruited to take over the New Media division of Paramount Studios. He then cofounded Worlds, Incorporated, an Internet software company... View Details
- Web
Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
twelve member companies of the Alabama Mining Institute. Desk stand, 1892. AT&T Bell Laboratories Mss: 583 1931 A512 1 album, 34 photographs This album contains close-up views of telephone equipment produced by Bell Telephone... View Details
- 14 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant
deals, even attempts, have been bigger. For example, Brazilian firm Companhia Vale do Rio Doce successfully acquired most of Canadian nickel company Inco Limited for $19 billion last year, and Chinese petro giant CNOOC tried, but failed,... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
Harold M. Brierley (MBA '68), chairman and CEO of Brierley & Partners, describes himself as "an accidental entrepreneur," having entered HBS as a chemical engineer planning to pursue a management career in the oil industry. "HBS... View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
from policies and incentives, are there other solutions to drive oil and gas investments? Cohen: People and firms respond to incentives, so the only thing you can do is either reward or sanction. History has shown that if you want a... View Details
- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
was interested in the oil and gas industry, and was drawn to engineering because of the challenge. “I always want to push myself,” she said, “and I saw engineering as an opportunity to stretch myself and take me out of my comfort... View Details
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School
learn how to do a DCF, and how to read a balance sheet. Tuition well spent! Sometimes the cases we’d read to apply these concepts were about oil rigs or department stores—and sometimes they were about technology companies, too. All the... View Details