Oil - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

computer simulation modeling. In a joint program with Harvard Law School, he lectured on marine legal / regulatory policy. His research focused on forecasting economic and environmental consequences of offshore oil and gas development. He... View Details

25 Apr 2024
News

Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... 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

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

with injunctions against ESG investing in the U.S. and pullbacks from climate commitments by oil majors, manufacturers, investment firms, and governments, Okafuji had to decide whether staying close to the wishes of customers and... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

L.E. Simmons

HBS, Simmons, who also attended the University of Utah and the London School of Economics, spent two years at First Chicago establishing a corporate finance department that focused on the offshore oil and gas industry. He subsequently... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

the World J.G. Bartholomew, ed., Atlas of the World's Commerce (London: George Newnes, 1907), p. 22-23, map. Crude Oil Flow T. T. Connors, An Examination of the International Flow of Crude Oil, with Special Reference to the Middle East... View Details

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

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McCollum Center | About

McCollum Center McCollum Center was made possible through the support of Margaret W. and Leonard F. McCollum and the Continental Oil Company. It is named in honor of Leonard McCollum. The construction of the McCollum Center marked the... 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

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

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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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

trusts like Standard Oil were busted by President Theodore Roosevelt. They were the Big Tech of their day. Where is the outrage today?” Facebook should be broken up, he added. Wildebeest proclaimed, “The best approach is to break up the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

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