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- 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
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
to employees' identity and self-worth. Caring About Accuracy Dave Thompson was appointed a measurement technician at El Segundo, CA-based Unocal's Van, TX, oil field in 1993. He was responsible for making sure that the amounts of View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Business School Case 213-008 High yield bond fund Proventus Capital Partners (PCP) has invested in underwater bonds issued by Preem, a large oil refinery. As maturity approaches, in the midst of financial crisis, Preem appear unlikely to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409029 PublicationsUnmasking Manly Men Authors:Robin J.Ely, Debra Meyerson Publication:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, July - August 2008 Abstract This article reports... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
a strategy for the economic development of the country. Kazakhstan is rich in oil and minerals. These resources were being exploited by foreign companies, in partnership with a government that displayed many signs of corruption, and in a... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
exercise:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311111-PDF-ENG BP's Macondo: Spill and Response Julio J. RotembergHarvard Business School Case 711-021 This case starts by reporting various factors that may have contributed to the massive Macondo View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
reasonable agreements. In some cases, they will fail, since one party or the other wants out of the deal altogether; but in other cases, both the investor and the country would likely be better off with a new business arrangement. Q: Venezuela plans to quickly... View Details
- 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
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
privatized by the Romanian state in 2004 and acquired by Austrian oil company OMV, with the state retaining a 20.6% stake in the company. The situation was particularly challenging for the foreign investor since the sector in which 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
- 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 production companies (IOCs); a global oil and gas (O&G) services... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Z. Ahmed, and Charles Cohen Abstract We use yearly variations in the price of oil to construct a powerful new instrument to test the impact of an important but often-overlooked foreign aid channel: money given by wealthy OPEC nations to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
some of these problems. We then use three detailed case studies of state-owned oil companies-Brazil's Petrobras, Norway's Statoil, and Mexico's Pemex-to examine how our theory fares in practice. Overall, we show how mixed enterprises have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
capitalism in Russia and the government's central role in business. A brief history of Russia's economic policy and business conditions since 2000 is given. The growth of Russia's economy and the fiscal surpluses resulting from high oil... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
Scorecard, Rockwater managers took the somewhat unusual step of actually going out to talk to its existing and potential customers, the large integrated oil and gas companies. Rockwater learned that most of its customers did choose the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Spring, and years of weak oil prices. Leveraging deep local knowledge, strong relations in the region, and a “PE investment approach in public equity markets,” Ajeej had outperformed its benchmark regional stock indices and attracted... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman