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- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
drilling industry slumps in 2009. Lower oil prices lead oil companies to reduce drilling budgets, and rig utilization falls from essentially 100% to 70% in some markets. Day rates—the prices paid for a rig's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
a zero-carbon emissions alternative." Coal combustion emits nearly twice as much carbon dioxide per energy unit than natural gas, with crude oil combustion falling between the two, according to the Energy Information Administration. But... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
supply contamination, etc.), as long as production takes place in a state or other legal jurisdiction with a history of sensible oil and gas production regulations and regulatory capacity in-place to enforce those regulations. “Cleaning... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
different. State-owned corporations in BRIC countries have managed to reform their corporate governance and become relatively efficient. Think about oil and banking: Among the 10 or 20 largest companies in the world, there are 8 or so... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
what others thought was possible. For example, in the 1910s, Frank Phillips—who founded Phillips Petroleum—was a typical Mold-Maker. He took advantage of the burgeoning automobile industry and especially the need for both natural gas and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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 questions the usefulness to management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
food they consumed to the jobs they took. Environmental quality does behave like a luxury good.— Forest L. Reinhardt All that has changed, partly due to alarming disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 and the 1984 Union... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
problem when they first emerged but was ultimately overcome by changes in the innovation ecosystem. However, incumbents in the oil and power sector are different in two respects. First, they are producing a commodity and hence face little... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
CDB's financing of a major project between Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), Brazil's state-owned oil and gas producer, and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), one of China's largest oil... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
state-owned sovereign funds, led by Abu Dhabi and fueled mostly by oil revenues and trade surpluses, now total more than the value of the world's hedge funds and will grow by six times over just in the next seven years? Or that states... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911411-PDF-ENG CNOOC: Building a World-class Energy Company Joseph L. Bower, Nancy Hua Dai, and Michael Shih-ta ChenHarvard Business School Case 311-074 Fu Chengyu is the fifth CEO to lead China National Offshore View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
called Travel Plazas—nationwide and was a growing multi-billion dollar business, but broader problems in the oil and credit markets in late 2008 forced it to declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Maggelet, who had been serving on Flying J’s... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
followed a path that was very different from the one that the traditional high professions of medicine, law, and science had pursued. In those cases, the impetus for professionalization came largely from a subgroup of practitioners who sought to distinguish themselves... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
According to Oliva and Suarez, YPF, Argentina's formerly state-owned oil company, is one example of a company's transformation following economic reform. Unlike Chile, which modified its economic policies gradually under the Pinochet... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
Williams had nearly $8 billion in sales. The oil industry is becoming more competitive in part because of such cast-off purchases by companies like Williams. Stay Home. For many companies, it still makes a lot more sense to grow... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
disrupt existing processes and services for the exploration and production of oil and natural gas. These breakthrough laser technologies were protected by a strong intellectual property (IP) portfolio, which provided Foro with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
and the United States were both friends and potential foes. In the meantime, Russia's own ambivalent relationship with the United States and its Western allies has worsened. In this context, China and Russia have grown closer. Bilateral ties in the energy trade quickly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
correct some of the biggest challenges today, like climate change, oil dependence, and life-threatening diseases. Outsourcing by itself is not evil, Shih says. In many cases it makes perfect sense, but "we need to be more thoughtful... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
redesign? The predictable, responsive, and lower-cost care today's health-care leaders—and patients—seek. Sovereign Wealth in Abu Dhabi Author:Rawi Abdelal Publication:Geopolitics 14, no. 2 (April 2009): 317-327 Abstract By the turn of the century, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
and impose competition between the pieces. By 2017, tracts of offshore oil were auctioned, renewable contracts were auctioned, and new regulators were trying to impose competition downstream in electricity. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne