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- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
our country as ‘zombie’ towns, each state may have a larger part in how Amazon operates.” Guy Higgins pointed out distinctions between practices used to gain market power in the past and present. “Standard Oil was an abusive monopoly,... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
And they can immediately call up the producers and say, 'Listen, you're under water here.'" Lest students think the collateral model is totally risk-free, the authors of the case included an extreme cautionary tale—the so-called Salad View Details
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Contemporary African Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Dark Poem Painting (What I Call You When I Think About You and You Are Not There) , 2005 Oil on stitched canvas 48 x 44 in. Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2006.10 Tuli Mekondjo (Namibian, born 1982) Otwa umbata oudjuu... 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
- 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
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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
- 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
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
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
- 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
- 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
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
culture relate to its strategy. Use all this understanding to place innovative bets. This is what the early leaders of GM did. And this is what several generations of executives—beginning in the 1970s with the first oil shocks and the... 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
- 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
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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
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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
- 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)