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- 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
J. Larry Nichols
Nichols and his father formed Devon Energy in 1971 to tap into the expanding need for new oil and energy sources. Through a series of acquisitions View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 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
- 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
- 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
James R. Moffett
In 1981, Moffett orchestrated one of the largest and most profitable mergers in Wall Street history – the merger of his oil exploration company, McMoRan Oil View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
concerned investors, activists, and customers. The European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) requires large publicly-listed companies in Europe to annually disclose their greenhouse View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
change. Energy Professor Michael Porter and BCG have partnered on research into how the country can maximize the opportunity presented by America’s unconventional oil and View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
- 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