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- 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
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
to handle it, on top of its recent investments for heavy oil. Political decisions, however, are pending on Keystone XL, on crude oil exports, and on LNG exports. Prices, therefore, are up in the air, especially as global capacity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
patient. Schrader and his colleagues had to decide on which vaccines to focus and whether and how to target the drug companies that manufactured the vaccines or the quasi-government organizations (such as UNICEF and PAHO) and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Energy
excited to contribute to companies who are increasing energy efficiency, investing in energy innovations, improving infrastructure for transportation and natural resources, and making improvements to the smart grid. There are also... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
led it back to profitability during the oil boom of the 1970s. By 1983, however, boom had turned to bust. After restructuring the company to a more suitable size, Strassler cashed out and helped his brother... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 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
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
U.S. Sahil Patel, MBA '05 PhytoTEK biologic infection solutions Watch their pitch. Northwestern U.S. Privahini Bradoo, MBA '08 BioMine e-waste mining solutions Watch their pitch. Southwestern U.S. Ali Fakhari, MBA '07 WikiPay mobile payment/marketing platform Watch... 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
- 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 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
accounting and SEC rules throughout that portion of the company where he had direct authority and accountability. Since Enron is certainly not the only company to have engaged in such gaming, the important... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
generation. When you have an oil company saying that, by 2030, one-third of all car sales are going to be electric vehicles [EVs]—an oil company... 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
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
probability of being the wrong decision. If you can apply some data, you will heighten your probability of making a better decision." Howe isn't speaking theoretically. Today companies like his can capture, store, and analyze massive data... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
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
- 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