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Portrait Project

Randolph Rodrigues

are the ultimate testament to the fact that "the dream" is more than just "American." So I go through my days knowing that I have no excuse to fail and that terrifies me. I touched land in the US determined to be a... View Details

18 Nov 2009
HBS Case

Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu

asks students to consider the operations and marketing of elBulli. There is much about the restaurant that is inefficient, as MBAs are quick to note: Adrià should lower his staff numbers, use cheaper ingredients, improve his supply chain,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

01 Dec 2002
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

helps us keep everything in perspective.” What has your typical client been most concerned about, given the harsh realities of today's investment climate? You know, I don't really have any “typical” clients, and that's one of the best... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Mar 2017
News

Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact

this past fall with an open challenge: choose an organization whose operating model will be significantly affected by climate change, and tell us what it should be doing to address it. Students posted responses to the prompt on HBS’s Open... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Mar 2004
News

David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation

obstacles were reduced in those designated lanes that were to be used in I MEF’s two-division assault into Iraq. The reinforced obstacles included two 4m x 4m berms, two 4m x 4m tank ditches, two chainlink fences 2m high, and a six strand... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Jun 2001
News

But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)

suppliers for the project, ensued. One participant reported that Shearer “personally took them on and ran rings around them.” “The big oil companies are used to dealing with smaller players by keeping them... View Details

Keywords: Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

balancing profit, growth and control. Difficulties encountered in the business are due to management's attempts to design and use formal control systems to achieve profit and performance goals. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Feb 2016
News

Investing in Sustainability

Nicholas Tiller (MBA 1998) grew up in a farming community, but it was his experience in hedge-fund management in the food and energy sectors that led him to establish Sustainable America, a nonprofit with the aim of reducing US View Details

07 Jun 2016
First Look

June 7, 2016

May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings International Data on Measuring Management Practices By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We examine methods used to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2014
News

Leading in the face of complex challenges

founded in the 1930s as Hess Oil and Chemical Company. A longtime advocate for and supporter of HBS, Hess is at the helm of an effort that also seeks to actively engage the alumni community. He considers the mobilization of alumni as... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Maasai Village

where they usually keep their cows — marked by a circle of large sticks poking out of the ground — they took us into their huts and showed us where they cooked and slept. Then... View Details

Keywords: Hospitality

05 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

self-conscious focus on increasing safety and effectiveness—which compelled workers to adopt a set of work practices that supported deep and ongoing learning—had the secondary consequence of disrupting and revising the hyper-masculine codes of behavior that were normal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

price increases drove an industry uptick as the market shifted from oil to coal. Demand for ships outstripped supply until 1981, when a global recession and the US coal miners' strike led to a collapse in... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation

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... View Details

21 Mar 2019
Blog Post

What I Didn't Know About HBS Faculty

Khalid Alghimlas earned his bachelor’s degree in chemical and biological engineering from Colorado State University in 2011 and is a strategist and business development consultant. Khalid was born and raised in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia, where View Details

Profile

Nneka Ezeigwe

in the oil and gas industry. Now, I’m excited about ways I can contribute to the economic growth occurring in my home country. This summer, I’ll be working with McKinsey & Co. in a consulting role in Nigeria. I’m looking forward to... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

02 Mar 2023
News

Carbon's Second Act

DM: And sometimes, those new ideas use existing models from other industries. JM: Many of the obvious techniques for storage is to actually use old reservoirs from the oil and... View Details

11 Oct 2016
Blog Post

Why We Recruit: HelloFresh

OrganizationAmna Belhedi, Global HR Business Partner at HelloFresh Describe your organization in three to five sentences.HelloFresh is the global leading meal kit delivery service. We aim to revolutionize the way people eat by making it more convenient and exciting to... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

Abstract We use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous... View Details