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- April 2003
- Case
Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar (A)
This case explores the conflict between Shell Oil and Greenpeace over Shell's plans to sink the aging Brent Spar oil platform in the North Atlantic. It details the tactics Greenpeace employed and examines Shell's responses. View Details
Keywords: Alliances; Crisis Management; Environmental Sustainability; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; North America
Watkins, Michael D., and Samuel Passow. "Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar (A)." Harvard Business School Case 903-010, April 2003.
- 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
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Business Subsidiaries; Mergers and Acquisitions; Energy Sources; Mining Industry; Mining Industry
Nanda, Ashish, and Leopoldo E. Lopez Mendoza. "PDVSA & Citgo (A): Seeking Stability in an Uncertain World." Harvard Business School Case 899-220, February 1999.
- March 1988 (Revised September 1988)
- Case
Friendly Competitors: The Amalgamated Aluminum Succession
Shapiro, Benson P. "Friendly Competitors: The Amalgamated Aluminum Succession." Harvard Business School Case 588-064, March 1988. (Revised September 1988.)
- 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
- Web
Partners - Managing the Future of Work
technologies to build detailed awareness of what is happening in the labor market in real time. Burning Glass collects and analyzes job postings from close to 30,000 online sources and then deploys advanced proprietary text mining to... 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
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job
One of the most essential roles of the general manager is to be the person who can move an organization forward through the most tangled of circumstances, says Professor Amy Edmondson, “where there is uncertainty, different points of view, and high stakes, whether... View Details
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Peek into Business | MBA
diverse range of careers in business, from entry level positions to dream roles. What Skills Are Associated with Business, and How Do Mine Align? Explore key skills for success in business and reflect on how your current abilities align... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New HBS Alumni Board Members
Mexico, which runs Mexico's 58 airports. He has held deputy secretary positions with the Mexican departments of Energy and of Mines and Basic Industries. In 1980 he was a visiting professor of finance at Harvard University, and from 1978... View Details
- Profile
Oded Navon
me realize that I wanted to specialize in something where I could have more control over the result and create things that would impact many people all at once. So, I dove into another passion of mine – computers – and went on to become a... View Details
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
to involve urban communities in the overall economy. It will be a priority of mine to first help my patients and, if I can, to help my community in those larger ways.” 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