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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 benefit investors can have on society.” -Michael E. Porter View Details
- 25 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Mireya Iglesias Ayala (MBA 2025)
too. I believe this is a powerful mindset, one of empathy and humbleness. These values influence my individual leadership philosophy, a concept often discussed here at HBS. Mine is rooted in my Mexican American heritage, where pride and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Stephanie Parker
considerable power and influence? Apparently not, or at least not me. Mine will be a life of service. You won't find me padding around on the soft carpet, sipping coffee in an ivory tower, engaging with others in ways which are long on... View Details
- Portrait Project
Monica Haugen
everyone is lucky enough to begin down such a path. I can only hope to change someone else's life in the way that mine was changed. Consequently, my master plan is to expose new options to all those around me. I will tell my children and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sanjayan Manivannan
I want to make magic happen. The same magic that I felt when I saw an airplane take off in the distance as I nervously waited for mine to do the same. Winter's first snow in Boston and the searing chill I felt on my bare feet. The... View Details
Joy Morton
Morton founded the Morton Salt Company, which became the most important firm in the salt industry under his leadership. By 1927, the company produced upwards of 600,000 tons of evaporated salt per annum and also distributed 400,000 tons of rock salt, which it processed... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- Portrait Project
Nelly-Ange Kontchou
soil for latching onto every crease of my clothing when we got home. It wouldn’t leave me be. Before the start of business school, I step off the plane at Douala International Airport and into the suffocating heat. As I look out the exit doors, a sea of faces and... View Details
- 11 Feb 2016
- News
Many Voices Working Toward a Solution
problem of how do you get multiple creative people to work together more effectively to solve the seemingly intractable problems of the world that don’t fit within a neat categorization. “A partner of mine and I have been engaged in a... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kara Scarbrough
into mine with conviction and certainty as she smiled and replied, "I know." I wasn't sure I believed it, but it was clear that she did. Seconds later she was gone. The months and years that followed were anything but ok. I took... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- News
Building change from the ground up
endured years of poverty, conflict, and corruption. “I’m passionate about the difference technology can make in people’s lives,” he says. In six months, Khoja and his workforce of willing yet largely untrained workers had cleared roads of land View Details
- Profile
Vivian Scalfi
how to improvise. A friend of mine said about HBS, ‘If you want to be comfortable with being uncomfortable, this is the place for you.’" "There is a mix of excitement and intimidation here," she says. "My first cold... View Details
Keywords: CPG
- October 1997
- Teaching Note
Mobil USM&R Series TN
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-197-025), (9-197-120), (9-197-121), (9-197-026), (9-197-027), and (9-197-028). View Details
- October 1996 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
Mobil USM&R (D): Gasoline Marketing
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Mobil US Marketing & Refining has shifted from a centralized staff-driven organization to decentralized business-units. Staff functions now must negotiate service agreements with a buyer's committee consisting of representatives from the profit-center business units.... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Management Teams; Human Resources; Agreements and Arrangements; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Customers; Situation or Environment; Business Units; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; United States
Kaplan, Robert S. "Mobil USM&R (D): Gasoline Marketing." Harvard Business School Case 197-028, October 1996. (Revised April 1998.)
- September 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
BP's Macondo: Spill and Response
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This case starts by reporting various factors that may have contributed to the massive Macondo oil spill, noting that BP, its partners and the government all made decisions that helped cause the accident. It then discusses the response to this spill by BP and the... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Metals and Minerals; Crisis Management; Infrastructure; Trade; Pollutants; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Government Relations; Finance; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Technology Adoption; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; United Kingdom; United States
Rotemberg, Julio J. "BP's Macondo: Spill and Response." Harvard Business School Case 711-021, September 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
- September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Supplement
Enman Oil, Inc. (D)
By: David F. Hawkins
Company pursues ways to reduce its debt to equity ratio by resorting to off balance sheet debt transactions. View Details
Keywords: Energy Sources; Capital Structure; Financial Statements; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; United States
Hawkins, David F. "Enman Oil, Inc. (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-045, September 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
- September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Supplement
Enman Oil, Inc. (B)
By: David F. Hawkins
Company pursues ways to reduce its debt to equity ratio by resorting to off balance sheet debt transactions. View Details
Keywords: Energy Sources; Capital Structure; Financial Statements; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; United States
Hawkins, David F. "Enman Oil, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-043, September 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
- January 2009
- Supplement
The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (E)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
Esty, Benjamin C., and Aldo Sesia. "The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (E)." Harvard Business School Supplement 209-082, January 2009.
- October 1999
- Case
Argentina's YFP Sociedad Anonima (E): A New Era
By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
In June 1999, Spain's former state-owned oil giant Repsol, acquired 97% of YPF, despite opposition from YPF management. The case describes the status of the two companies at the time of the acquisition and highlights concerns expressed by industry analysts on the deal. View Details
Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; State Ownership; Acquisition; Decisions; Profit; Privatization; Corporate Strategy; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Argentina; Spain
Yoshino, Michael Y., Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Cate Reavis. "Argentina's YFP Sociedad Anonima (E): A New Era." Harvard Business School Case 300-028, October 1999.
- February 1994 (Revised November 1994)
- Case
Brinkerhoff International, Inc. (A)
Presents a study of two oil rigs and their team relationships within a context of dissension in lower management ranks and a president who is trying to expand the business in a changing economy. View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Conflict and Resolution; Energy Sources; Mining Industry; Mining Industry
Barnes, Louis B. "Brinkerhoff International, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 494-110, February 1994. (Revised November 1994.)
Ian K. MacGregor
efforts, he built AMAX into the third largest mining operation in the United States. From this success, he moved back to Britain where, in his 70’s, he reorganized the British Steel Corporation. View Details
Keywords: Metals