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- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- Web
Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
partner at Lehman Brothers, assumed leadership of the firm in 1969, the first non-family member to do so. The investment house suffered a decline in business aggravated by the oil crisis in 1973. That year, Peter Peterson, formerly... View Details
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
brownfield sites, as well as addressing lead in drinking water.[50] Similarly, the program directs $725 million to reclaiming old mine lands and another $775 million to plugging orphaned oil and gas wells.[51] These funds will work to... View Details
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
United States, what were the economic and political advantages of building and managing the canal? A: The Panama Canal provided massive cost savings to intercoastal commerce. Before the Second World War, the vast majority of the cargo transiting the Panama Canal... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sneha Biswas
once told me that I must study well because men want educated wives. So, I did. But somewhere along the journey, my goal shifted. I wasn’t doing it for a husband, but for the respect that women, like my mother, deserve. I worked on ships in the deep seas of Gulf of... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
pioneered new industries, from jute manufacture in India and cotton textile manufacture in China, to the oil industry in California."The improvements in transport and communications from the 1870s resulted in opportunities and... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
cheeses won’t resonate with tech entrepreneurs. Enduring. Building a brand around renewable energy might not stick if oil prices fall for a sustained period or a pro-coal leader takes power, but the unique essence of a city never fades... View Details
W. Earl Sasser
Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
and in our success as a family," notes L.E. Simmons (MBA '72), founder of L.E. Simmons & Associates in Houston, which manages a private equity fund that invests in the oil service industry. "We all believe in and support what Kim Clark is... View Details
William E. Fruhan
Professor WILLIAM E. FRUHAN, JR. is George E. Bates Professor, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He received his BS degree from Yale University, and his MBA and DBA degrees from Harvard University. He has served as Senior Associate Dean and Director of... View Details
- Research Summary
The Panama Canal
The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy. It makes three general arguments. First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details
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Climate Impact - Business & Environment
production of next-generation ingredients. We leverage biotechnology as a scalable, sustainable alternative to industrial agriculture and recently launched Palmless , the platform for sustainable palm oil alternatives.” Sarah Wright MBA... View Details
- 22 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands
back in 2012, I was hoping to graduate and work in the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. My goal was to contribute to eradicating energy poverty and improving general welfare. At that time, petroleum accounted for roughly 80% of the... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
oil industry. I came full circle with both of those cases, having spent my career in the oil industry and as CEO of a company involved in the Macondo well disaster in 2010. Going through the Macondo crisis... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
Barring artificial constraints by government or unusual dislo-cations - such as the first oil embargo that came when we were students at HBS - I'd say existing factors point to a pretty good investment environment. How would you describe... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
oil and ecotourism Giacomin draws on two very different cases to analyze that phenomenon, first examining the evolution of the rubber and palm oil plantation clusters in Southeast Asia from 1900 to 1970 and... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
invests in companies providing services, products and technologies for the energy industry. They have traditionally focused on services for the Oil & Gas industry but are now committing capital to companies operating to monitor and... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste
global companies with high water usage include “agriculture, manufacturing, oil & gas, electric utilities, coal, textiles, and metals & mining.” The global water crisis is putting some $392 billion in assets at risk, the report... View Details
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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting
studying French at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, Nneka moved to the United States to begin her career as a Process Engineer at Shell. Coming from an oil-rich economy, Nneka was interested in the oil and gas industry, and was drawn to... View Details
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
squid ink pasta in Venice, walking on beaches, and tasting olive oils in Tuscany, they realized they were glad they had gone, and regretted fretting about the hiccups and cost. “Thinking about the economic value of our leisure time can... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman