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Robert O. Anderson
Anderson parlayed a small oil business in New Mexico into one of the largest and most successful oil businesses in the United States. From 1966 to 1982, through acquisitions and strategic diversification,... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
John H. Pew
John Pew, along with his younger brother Joseph Jr., took control of their father's company in 1912. The Pew brothers grew it from a small firm, with just a 0.9% share of the overall industrial production of oil, into the country's 15th largest 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
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 28 Mar 2018
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Fueling the Future
Women who pursue STEM fields are accustomed to being challenged. 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 on the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master
“vindictive” but to settle on compensation for top executives at bailed-out companies that would be competitive without promoting excessive risk-taking. (Feinberg’s definition of “excessive”: “I know it when I see it.”) He noted that 85 percent of the people whose... View Details
- 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
- 26 Sep 2014
- News
Here’s the Young Wheeler-Dealer with a Wildcatter’s Heart
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
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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
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Oliver Bladek
Early in his career as a consultant with McKinsey, Oliver Bladek recognized the hard impact of so-called "soft" skills. "I was working on a major, $10-billion oil project that included everything from drilling thousands of... View Details
Armand Hammer
Hammer expanded Occidental Oil from a tiny, near-bankrupt California oil firm into one of the “Big Oil” companies - turning it into a conglomerate, beginning with the acquisition of an View Details
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Ross S. Sterling
Using proceeds from his feed store business, Sterling began investing in oil wells in 1909. Forming Humble Oil with several other astute oil businessmen, Sterling led his... View Details
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Joshua S. Cosden
Known as the “prince of petroleum,” Cosden is credited with establishing Oklahoma as a major oil producing state. Starting with a small parcel of land, he built a $35 million oil business in ten short years.... View Details
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Otto D. Donnell
When Donnell took over the presidency of Ohio Oil in 1927, the company had over $104 million in assets with $7 million in net profits. Donnell began a program of expansion in 1930, purchasing various oil... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
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General File - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Collections Site Credits General File Photograph Collection, ca. 1860–1975 Drilling, photograph by Dick Whittington , Los Angeles, California. Mss: 1415 1860–1975 G326 19 boxes, approx. 1,250 photographs Collection Guide From whaling ships to View Details
- 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 Business School professor Forest... View Details
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Nneka Ezeigwe
in the oil and gas industry. Now, I’m excited about ways I can contribute to the economic growth occurring in my home country. This summer, I’ll be working with McKinsey & Co. in a consulting role in Nigeria. I’m looking forward to... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
Nicholas Tiller (MBA 1998) grew up in a farming community, but it was his experience in hedge-fund management in the food and energy sectors that led him to establish Sustainable America, a nonprofit with the aim of reducing US oil... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Isik Kececi Asur, MBA 1997
country and culture,” Asur says. In addition to Mustafa’s diversified family oil business, the Asurs are partners in Istanbul-based Aragon Capital, a firm they launched five years ago that manages a variety of investments including... 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