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Harry F. Sinclair
After ill-fated attempts to make money by buying and selling oil leases, Sinclair entered the refining business in 1906, acquiring several companies that were eventually consolidated into Sinclair Oil. Once the larger venture was created,... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard... View Details
John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
The company Rockefeller started at age 23, Standard Oil, came to hold a virtual monopoly on the American oil industry. He maintained control of Standard Oil until its eventual break-up by the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Joseph N. Pew
Having begun investing in oil while working in real estate, Pew eventually entered the industry full time, organizing several smaller entities into what became the Sun Oil Company. An innovator himself, Pew... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Walter C. Teagle
Teagle rose threw the ranks of Standard Oil after joining in 1901, making a name for himself through his managing of the company’s international operations after the anti-trust breakup in the early 1910s. Throughout his term as president... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
James R. Moffett
In 1981, Moffett orchestrated one of the largest and most profitable mergers in Wall Street history – the merger of his oil exploration company, McMoRan Oil and Gas Company, with Freeport Minerals... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
Howard B. Keck
Assuming leadership of his father’s company at the age of 50, Keck focused his energies on growing the independent oil firm. He invested heavily in energy exploration and production, allowing Superior to become one of the most successful... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Lyman Stewart
Prior to starting the Hardison and Stewart Oil Company, the entity that later became Union Oil, Stewart engaged in several unsuccessful business ventures in the oil industry. At Union Oil, however, Stewart... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
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The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Desert Dust-Up
Simmons Photo Courtesy Simmons & Co. INTL. Oil and water don’t mix. That truism about elements at odds could also serve as an analogy for Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67), who’s sometimes known as a petroleum-industry contrarian. But it’s the... View Details
John E. Swearingen
Swearingen took over the inefficient Standard Oil of Indiana in 1960. He streamlined its operations and aligned its business units while expanding Standard’s exploration of both domestic and foreign oil. By the end of his tenure, he had... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Monroe J. Rathbone
As CEO of Standard Oil of New Jersey, Rathbone is credited for making Jersey Standard into an international company. Seeing problems with an ever increasing dependence on oil from the Middle East, Rathbone... View Details
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William L. Stewart
Assuming control of Union Oil from his father, William Stewart’s first task was to repair the company’s finances, which had suffered under his father’s huge waves of expansion. Stewart accomplished this without problems and guided Union... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
Haroldson L. Hunt
Hunt built the largest independent oil company in the U.S. During World War II, Hunt sold more oil to the Allies than the total German output, and supplied 85% of the natural gas piped into the eastern... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
An Unconventional Suggestion
Consulting Group proposed an 11-point plan of regulatory reforms, technological advances, and infrastructure and workforce development. The goal: to realize the economic benefits of unconventional gas and oil (already adding more than... View Details
James C. Donnell
Donnell expanded Ohio Oil’s reach to include 16 states and Mexico. Donnell established the Illinois Pipeline Corporation, capitalized at $20 million, to operate the pipeline transportation company of Ohio Oil. In 1924, Donnell acquired Lincoln View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 04 May 2011
- News
Recipes from the COC (Chief Operating Cook)
tablespoons tamarind paste ¼ cup Canola vegetable oil 1 medium onion (finely chopped) 2 medium tomatoes (finely chopped) 2 inches of fresh ginger (finely chopped) 1 small green chili (finely chopped) 1 clove of garlic (finely chopped) 1... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
TarontsiHarvard Business School Case 710-002 In March 2009, the government of Iraq decided to hold its first oil field auctions. The auctions were for service contracts on the country's southern oil fields;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
When Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) began her career working as a field engineer for Schlumberger, one of the world’s largest oilfield service companies, the all-male crews were often less than welcoming. Since those early engineering days, Kovatch has held multiple roles... View Details