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- July 2005
- Case
Leading Anadarko
By: Nitin Nohria, Krishna G. Palepu and David Lane
Describes the challenges facing Jim Hackett, the newly appointed CEO of Anadarko Petroleum, an independent oil and gas exploration company. In addition to strategic and organizational issues, Hackett must address concerns about proper disclosure of the company's oil... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Strategy; Organizations; Corporate Disclosure; Problems and Challenges; Mining Industry; Mining Industry
Nohria, Nitin, Krishna G. Palepu, and David Lane. "Leading Anadarko." Harvard Business School Case 406-014, July 2005.
- October 2001 (Revised June 2006)
- Supplement
Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (B), The
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Esty, Benjamin C., and Carrie Ferman. "Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (B), The." Harvard Business School Supplement 202-012, October 2001. (Revised June 2006.)
- January 2001 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
British Petroleum and Amoco were the two largest members of the Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium (AIOC), an 11-firm consortium that was spending $10 billion to develop oil fields in the Caspian Sea. As of March 1999, AIOC had completed a $1.9 billion development... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Policy; Capital Budgeting; Project Finance; Emerging Markets; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; United Kingdom; Europe
Esty, Benjamin C., and Michael Kane. "BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields." Harvard Business School Case 201-067, January 2001. (Revised May 2010.)
- October 1999 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
International Investor, The: Islamic Finance and the Equate Project
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Mathew M Millett
Equate Petrochemical Co. (Equate) is a joint venture between Union Carbide Corp. and Petrochemical Industries Co. (PIC) for the construction of a $2 billion petrochemical plant in Kuwait. The sponsors began construction in August 1994, using a bridge loan, and are in... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Project Finance; Religion; Investment; Finance; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Kuwait
Esty, Benjamin C., and Mathew M Millett. "International Investor, The: Islamic Finance and the Equate Project." Harvard Business School Case 200-012, October 1999. (Revised April 2003.)
- April 1999
- Teaching Note
Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corporation TN
Teaching Note for (9-799-062). View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Reflecting on 24 Years at Harvard
months when Mike Wheeler, who was a professor and mentor of mine at HBS, called to see if I wanted to teach Negotiations on a two-year appointment at HBS. I left McKinsey on a leave-of-absence, fully intending to go back, but the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Rick Ambrust
An F! I didn't want to believe it. Just as I was trying to forget a disastrous semester, the Registrar wanted to give me one last reminder. But it happened. It was mine to keep. An F. It was both humorous and humiliating to do the same 10... View Details
Langbourne M. Williams, Jr.
After launching a stockholder attack on the management of Freeport Sulphur in 1930, Williams found himself in the CEO position three years later. Under his direction, Freeport experienced a major turnaround in performance and became the premier supplier of sulphur in... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Henry B. Spencer
After serving as vice president of the Southern Railway System until 1917, Spencer formed the Fruit Growers Express to transport perishable goods and provide ventilated and refrigerated car services. With Fruit Growers owning its own cars and repair shops, the company... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Thomas H. McInnerney
McInnerney built the precursor to Kraft Industries. After acquiring Kraft-Phoenix Company, the new company was ranked as one of America’s largest with sales of $375 million in 1930. It accounted for 40% of the nation’s annual cheese consumption. View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Alexander Legge
Legge, a forceful leader, successfully defended an anti-trust suit against the company in 1923, enabling it to retain its dominant position in the farming industry. One of his major contributions was in the area of standardization, especially within the area of farm... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Erwin Kelm
Over the years, Kelm built Cargill, Incorporated into a $10 billion grain company handling more than 25% of America’s grain exports. He operated 600 plants in 38 countries, employed more than 24,000 people, and had grain elevators with storage capacity of 300 million... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
George M. Humphrey
Through a number of successful mergers and acquisitions, Humphrey dramatically expanded and diversified M. A. Hanna’s production. By the end of his tenure, the company had assets of more than $120 million, three-quarters of which was invested in steel, rayon, copper,... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
William L. Clayton
In 1916, Clayton moved Anderson, Clayton and Company’s headquarters to Houston, Texas, where he grew the company into the world’s largest cotton trading organization. During World War I, the firm handled 1 million bales of cotton a year. By World War II, the firm was... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
David Burpee
In 1917, the same year W. A.. Burpee Company was incorporated and Burpee was named president, sales were $900,000. By 1959, Burpee had grown the company to become the largest reputed seed catalog mail order house in the world with sales over $6 million. More than 50... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 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 geological conversations," he... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
On a chilly November afternoon in Harlan County, a struggling former mining hub on the edge of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield, Geoff Marietta (MBA 2007) surveys the bustling village he has helped build. Marietta is executive director of... View Details
- April 1997
- Teaching Note
Continuous Casting Investments at USX Corporation TN
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Bret J. Baird
Teaching Note for (9-697-020). View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Energy Sources: Daniel Yergin and the EP Team
Daniel Yergin is a founding partner of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Prize, which chronicles oil’s rise and impact on the world. He was winding up a postdoctoral fellowship in international affairs at Harvard and was... View Details