Oil And Gas Production - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

Germany in 2000, the labor costs were about 25-26 Euros per hour. In the Czech Republic it's about four Euros per hour. So it's quite dramatic. But how you assess these costs depends on productivity levels as well. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Tyler Teykl (MBA 2017)

Hilcorp Energy Company, a private US production company. I have held both operations and project roles. My current role is to identify, scope, and execute new View Details

15 Mar 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?

from policies and incentives, are there other solutions to drive oil and gas investments? Cohen: People and firms... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

18 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

industry that has an opportunity to turn an existential crisis into an opportunity: the oil and gas industry. While the oil View Details

15 Apr 2014
News

Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308065 ScriptLogic®: Point, Click, Done! Harvard Business School Case 508-114 ScriptLogic is a software company that has built a product portfolio that fits under a 'Point, Click, Done!' umbrella; its... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss

oil and gas industry that you're going to be out of a job, it just means it creates important challenges, but also opportunities for those industries. Just as if you are really... View Details

19 Apr 2016
First Look

April 19, 2016

environmental organizations in the U.S. remain adamantly opposed to the production of oil sands and its movement into the U.S. by either pipeline (e.g., Keystone XL) or... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 10, 2009

premia determined mainly by the product of risk aversion and the nominal-real covariance. The concavity of the yield curve—the level of intermediate-term bond yields, relative to the average of short- View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Jun 2016
First Look

June 28, 2016

the world of startups. It also describes how certain industries, like energy, are poorly suited to the investment profile of traditional venture capitalists. The product development cycle is too long and the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Edward G. Jefferson

Jefferson is credited with streamlining duPont’s operations and diversifying its portfolio – setting the stage for a new era in the company’s history. His purchase of Conoco in 1981 dramatically changed the duPont landscape providing a... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

01 Dec 2019
News

Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup

Service with a Smile: Classmates Nick Alexander (left) and Bryan Frist with one of Yoshi’s service-on-demand vehicles. (photo by Cayce Clifford) The first purpose-built, drive-in gas station opened in... View Details

Keywords: April White; startups; on-demand economy; entrepreneurship; Personal Services

Herman Brown

Brown built one of the world’s largest construction companies - Brown and Root, Incorporated. Brown also developed subsidiaries that included hotels, oil and View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

understand which data is relevant. On average, our study found that only about 20 percent of data in any given industry is material from an investment standpoint. That has huge implications in terms of the signal-to-noise ratio. For example, climate change management... View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

looked to scale, it was exploring partnerships with various incumbent firms-the most serious were with a set of international oil and gas View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

Nordisk. At United Technologies, whose products include Carrier air conditioners, Otis elevators, and Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, a recent integrated report focused on such nonfinancial metrics as... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

money. Whereas if you're, let's say, an oil refinery manager, you're not going to get a second refinery next month just because you've done well this month. And even if you're the best wall builder in the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

02 Mar 2023
News

Carbon's Second Act

Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA... View Details

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