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- April 1999
- Teaching Note
Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corporation TN
Teaching Note for (9-799-062). View Details
- March 1999 (Revised April 1999)
- Case
Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corporation
By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Monica M Mandelli and Jennifer Burns
Chevron Corp., headquartered in San Francisco, manages a worldwide, vertically integrated value chain from the oil well to the gasoline station. Mishandling of oil at any stage of production can damage the natural environment, human health, corporate profitability, or... View Details
- February 1999
- Case
PDVSA & Citgo (A): Seeking Stability in an Uncertain World
By: Ashish Nanda
In order to secure demand for its heavy oil, PDVSA buys 50% of the U.S. refining and retail company Citgo. In 1990, it buys the remaining 50% ownership of Citgo. The case describes the challenges faced by PDVSA and Citgo managements as they try to make their... View Details
- February 1999
- Case
PDVSA & Citgo (B): Fully Integrated?
By: Ashish Nanda
Concerned that Citgo investments are not yielding sufficient returns, PDVSA constrains Citgo management's autonomy, leading to Citgo senior management turnover. The case closes with Citgo's new CEO reflecting on what he needs to do to align Citgo's strategy and... View Details
- February 1999 (Revised October 2009)
- Supplement
Royal Dutch/Shell in Nigeria (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Mihnea C. Moldoveanu
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- December 1998 (Revised June 2001)
- Teaching Note
Petrolera Zuata, Petrozuata C.A. TN
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Mathew M Millett
Teaching Note for (9-299-012). View Details
Keywords: Energy Industry
- September 1998 (Revised March 2002)
- Case
Petrolera Zuata, Petrozuata C.A.
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Mathew M Millett
Petrozuata is a proposed $2.5 billion oil-field development project in Venezuela. The case is set in 1997 as the project sponsors, Conoco and PDVSA (Venezuela's national oil company), are planning to meet with various development agencies and rating agencies regarding... View Details
- June 1998 (Revised July 1998)
- Teaching Note
Enron Development Corporation: The Dabhol Power Project in Maharashtra, India (A,B,& C) TN
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Krishna G. Palepu
Teaching Note for (9-596-099), (9-596-100), and (9-596-101). View Details
- March 1998
- Teaching Note
Shell Brasil S.A.: Performance Evaluation in the Oil Products Division TN
By: Kenneth A. Merchant and Krishna G. Palepu
- February 1998 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
Burma Pipeline, The
By: Debora L. Spar and Lane LaMure
In 1996, Unocal Corp. joined forces with the French Total company to construct an ambitious natural gas pipeline from the Andaman Sea across the southern tip of Burma and into Thailand. At an estimated cost of $1.2 billion, the pipeline was designed to bring sorely... View Details
- February 1998 (Revised December 1998)
- Case
Atlantic Energy/Delmarva Power & Light (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mathew M Millett and Tracy Aronson
Delmarva Power & Light and Atlantic Energy are neighboring electric utilities based in Delaware and New Jersey, respectively. In early 1996, they entered into merger negotiations, but were unable to reach an agreement on price because they could not agree on what... View Details
- February 1998 (Revised December 1998)
- Case
Atlantic Energy/Delmarva Power & Light (B)
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mathew M Millett and Tracy Aronson
- Article
Industrial Ecology and Competitiveness
By: Daniel Esty and Michael E. Porter
In the emerging field of industrial ecology one of the unsettled questions is the degree to which design for the environment, closing energy and materials loops, and other industrial ecology concepts apply at the firm level. In this article we examine this issue with a... View Details
Keywords: Competition
- October 1997
- Teaching Note
Mobil USM&R Series TN
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for (9-197-025), (9-197-120), (9-197-121), (9-197-026), (9-197-027), and (9-197-028). View Details
- August 1997 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (D): The International Platform
By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In March 1995, YPF (the former Argentine state-owned oil and gas utility, privatized in late 1993) acquired the Dallas-based Maxus Energy Corp., one of the world's largest independent oil and gas exploration companies. YPF's first acquisition is nearly bankrupt, with... View Details
- June 1997 (Revised May 1998)
- Case
Mobil USM&R (A1)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
First of a two-part case on the development and use of a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) at Mobil's US Marketing and Refining Division. Split from the original (A) case to give students an opportunity to suggest objectives and measures for the division's initial BSC, without... View Details
- June 1997 (Revised May 1998)
- Case
Mobil USM&R (A2)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Second of a two-part case on the development and use of a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) at Mobil's US Marketing and Refining Division. This case describes the completed BSC, and how this was linked to the BSCs of the independent business units and the internal service... View Details