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31 May 2023
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

not go back to the drachma, to stay with the euro. It was very tough. The GDP of the country went down by more than 25 percent. I think that says it all.” 3 tips: “I was taught since I was a kid to drink a little bit of olive oil in the... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

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Wilder House | About

investment banking to enter the world of politics and public policy. He was appointed chairman and chief executive officer of Canadian Arctic Gas, a consortium of twenty-six Canadian and U.S. oil and gas companies to build a... View Details

12 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

undergraduates, some are industry veterans. They come from retail, mining, teaching, oil and gas, coding, clinical medicine, and the military. They represent countries around the world: We have founders from Indonesia, Uganda, Chile,... View Details

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Breakup of Standard Oil and American Tobacco Clayton Antitrust Act Federal Reserve Act First Federal-Aid Highway Act Federal Trade Commission established Personal income tax reinstituted Influence: Low 20 1920 s 19 U.S. Steel and Alcoa... View Details

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

small number of rivals—for market power. (Indeed, at the Harvard Business School where I have taught business history to thousands of MBAs, students often compare the early growth of Standard Oil to that of Microsoft 100 years later. They... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

girl! The whole section AND my Finance professor applauded. It was so beautiful I cried! And now my daughter's birth announcement to an HBS classroom lives in a recording. Claudia Lopez Lopez Year: Second Mom of: Lucy (1 year), Santiago (2 months) Pre-HBS Industry:... View Details

05 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors

varied the set of customers or consumers being studied were in other ways. It was as if we had identified a secret code of thought. The seven deep metaphors discussed in Marketing Metaphoria are those appearing most often across a variety of products ranging from the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Professor Meghan O'Sullivan , Harvard Kennedy School + More Info – Less Info As war rages in Ukraine, many worry about a looming energy crisis as Russia is one of the world’s largest producers of oil and natural gas – and a large coal and... View Details

01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

of Mexico shrimp fisherman who stayed in business with low-interest economic injury loans after the BP oil spill, to a Pennsylvania drill bit manufacturer whose SBA-financed technology was instrumental in rescuing the trapped Chilean... View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

successes so that people can learn from them. Q: What are you working on now? A: We are currently doing research on offshore oil production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. These are fascinating to us because they are the quintessential... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

Profile

Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen

out, he embraced the oil and gas industry because "it offered excitement, good pay, plus opportunities for international travel—I wanted to explore connections in the larger global community." At ConocoPhillips, Sergio not only... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Consulting

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

How to Avoid a Price Increase

types of products for which customers are more quantity-conscious than others? What products won't this work for? A: There are certainly categories where a change in package size is more noticeable. These would include any category where a certain quantity of something... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Oct 1998
News

Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

her first year out of HBS working as the Oil of Olay brand manager for Procter & Gamble (P & G) in Bangkok, Hoa returned to Hanoi to found Galaxy. With clients such as P&G, Motorola, and Boeing, she has established a foothold in one of... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

27 Oct 2015
News

Sweet Success

changes,” Turner notes. “The quality then is inferior, but some producers mix it in with their better grades to stretch yield. We decided not to do that.” Turner also links his brand’s flavor to a purification process inspired by his experience in the View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

have a solid business basis." Jennifer Moret Financial Analyst Develop distinctive approaches and frameworks that help you navigate complex industries, such as oil and gas, power, pharmaceuticals, and financial services. Today, I am... View Details

22 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

was interested in the oil and gas industry, and was drawn to engineering because of the challenge. “I always want to push myself,” she said, “and I saw engineering as an opportunity to stretch myself and take me out of my comfort... View Details

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

page turner in terms of how we were going to escape the claws of this hostile predator who in fact, had bought Lincoln Savings in New York and Union Oil in Canada. And within a year or two from the time that we were successful in terms of... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

07 Oct 2020
Blog Post

7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club

to be fully out and queer, but letting go of that fear has been a process. After college I worked conservative industries, like oil & gas and logistics, and I struggled with balancing authenticity and personal safety. I was not out at... View Details

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Electricity - Business & Environment

Big Oils and Utilities’ Diverging Strategies for Energy Convergence ,” The Goldman Sachs Groups, July 10, 2019. “ Access to Electricity (% of population) ,” The World Bank, 2019, accessed September 8, 2019. Scott Nyquist, “ Energy 2050:... View Details

25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

of it doesn’t,” Beer says, citing the example of an oil company that built a $20 million safety training facility but still suffered several fatal accidents nonetheless. “Part of it is a fad. Everybody’s doing training. Everybody’s got... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

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