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- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
Maybe there’s nothing to those predictions that the end of oil is near, or the allegations, such as those by oil-industry veteran Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67), that Saudi petroleum reserves are way less than what is believed. But something’s... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
Robert H. Johnson
its markets, including oil and gas drilling equipment and construction materials. Between 1955 and 1966, Johnson grew sales from $145 million to $476 million and earnings from $28 million to $52 million. View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Charles B. (Tex) Thornton
After making a name for himself at Ford and later at Hughes, Thornton left to start an electronics company. Litton Industries had its roots in electronics but the company became a huge conglomerate, operating in a wide variety of businesses, from View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
Joseph S. Cullinan
In 1913, when Cullinan resigned his presidency, Texaco controlled over 4% of the nation’s oil production. Cullinan had grown Texaco from an initial capitalization of $3 million to one of $30 million with assets of approximately $60... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- Portrait Project
Jayon Wang
freeze your drink. Teachers and friends all laughed knowingly, “Jayon is at it again!” For my first ‘real job’, I launched a grand plan to fix Big Oil from the inside. An Asian-American liberal kid showing up in Houston with East-Coast... View Details
Langbourne M. Williams, Jr.
After launching a stockholder attack on the management of Freeport Sulphur in 1930, Williams found himself in the CEO position three years later. Under his direction, Freeport experienced a major turnaround in performance and became the premier supplier of sulphur in... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
strong investor relations (IR) departments, according to HBS professor Gregory S. Miller. Two cases he recently coauthored describe how these different firms in the oil and gas industry—controversial of late for its mile-high profits—have... View Details
- Profile
Farah Ahmed
Going outside of her comfort zone, Farah Ahmed, MBA 2015, put nine hours of distance between herself and her family, her friends, and the corporate networking opportunities she would otherwise have in her company's Houston office, to gain direct View Details
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
sectors such as the oil or chemistry industry. In 2011, even in the wake of the financial crisis, "returns to talent" were three times higher in the finance industry than in the economy as a whole. (This held true even in cases where the... View Details
Herman Brown
Brown built one of the world’s largest construction companies - Brown and Root, Incorporated. Brown also developed subsidiaries that included hotels, oil and gas producing properties, paper mills, mines, real estate concerns, office... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
David Rockefeller
bank’s international business which contributed $6 billion of income in 1979 and positioned it as an important lender to large, multinational American industrial conglomerates, especially oil companies. View Details
Keywords: Finance
W. Alton Jones
Jones, as president of Cities Service Company (a holding company controlling petroleum, natural gas, and power subsidiaries), was responsible for completing oil pipelines from Texas to major East coast cities (3,128 miles). View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Stephen D. Bechtel
Bechtel was a giant in the large construction industry. His firm is credited with the successful completion of massive projects including the Hoover Dam and the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Bechtel also built the oil pipeline across the... View Details
Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
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
Lee R. Raymond
head of the largest oil corporation in the world, Raymond has consistently produced results which have exceeded competitors and market expectations. Exxon Mobil beat the S&P 500 performance every year between 1993 and 2003. View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Amos L. Beaty
In 1907, Beaty became the attorney for Texaco, and was able to secure new laws, which smoothed the way for the company’s entry into the Oklahoma oil fields. In 1920, Beaty was elected president of the company. During his presidency, Beaty... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- Career Coach
Kareem Stanley
Kareem enjoys helping students with making career transitions from the following industries: oil/gas/energy, industrials, construction/project management. Having been an oil & gas engineer before coming back to complete JD/MBA, Kareem... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
very difficult to say that this situation would have parallels to the Gulf War or any other war we've experienced. Take oil prices, for example. One might assume that oil prices will rise if we attack Iraq,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Portrait Project
Sylvie Tran
these desperate conditions, any opportunity can be created. With passion as inspiring as this little boy's, I want to shape sustainable opportunities. I want to learn all of my mom's recipes so that our unique Canadian-Vietnamese culture continues to thrive in future... View Details