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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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
after it was reconfigured following a merger, Barford then took up the reins of Valleydene Corporation Limited, a family-run holding company that has a majority interest in GSW and also oversees warehouse facilities, oil and gas... View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Collections Bibliography SITE CREDITS 15. Edwin H. Land, "Research by the Business Itself," a paper contributed by Edwin H. Land, President, Polaroid Corporation, on the general subject of "The Future of Industrial Research" at the Standard View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
after Lehman Brothers’ collapse ushered in the Global Financial Crisis. Lyondell was the world’s third-largest diversified chemicals company, with $55 billion in annual revenues and operations in 25 countries. Hit by a one-two punch of falling View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
appearance on the dinner table only on major holidays, if then. Over Thanksgiving, as my mother and I poured a candle and marveled at how wicks turn wax into flame, my dad nostalgically reminisced on using rags to draw oil in kerosene... View Details
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
time, and the timeline for decisions. Employees understand that events are continually unfolding and will accept changes if the evidence and reasoning are clear. Boilerplate rhetoric will likely disengage them. INSEAD’s Jennifer Petriglieri studied BP’s handling of its... View Details
- 02 Mar 2012
- HBS Seminar
Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
through the financial crisis, and Exxon has done the same in the precipitous drop in oil prices from $147 to $33 per barrel. I have spent a lot of time recently with leadership groups and the media discussing the "7 Lessons" and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
Industry: Oil & Gas / Reservoir Engineer Proudest Accomplishment: Starting at HBS the same week my daughter started Kindergarten Summer Internship: Biotech - FORMA Therapeutics How do you do it? Three things keep me sane: time... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
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Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration
The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
underscores a new reality in the United States. At the center of this change is the fact that U.S. oil reserves have diminished from an estimated 39 billion barrels in 1970 to 21 billion today. The gushers that made Texans in ten-gallon... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Students Win Energy Competition
were given 36 hours to analyze a case about how a mid-tier oil and gas company should respond to federal mandates requiring ethanol-blended gasoline. Each team presented its conclusions to, and was questioned by, a panel of executives... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Floor hand Ray Gerrish works to make repairs on a drilling rig outside Watford City. Employees work around the clock at Raven Rig No. 1, one of more than 150 oil rigs in the Bakken. (photos by Jim Gehrz/Minneapolis Star Tribune/ZUMA Press... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
discontent for many American families. Bundled up in chilly homes, they see their heating bills cutting deeply into the rest of their household budget. Lowering the thermostat, they wonder when keeping warm became a luxury in the wealthiest nation in the world.... View Details
- 16 Sep 2013
- News
Canada’s Native Son
owned by the aboriginals in Canada and has since distributed $750 million to First Nations). As the CEO of One Earth Oil and Gas, Favel has worked with aboriginal Canadians to access and develop Canada's oil... View Details