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- June 1995 (Revised June 1996)
- Case
White Nights and Polar Lights: Investing in the Russian Oil Industry
By: Debora L. Spar
In the latter half of the 1980s, the collapse of the Soviet empire created an unprecedented opportunity for Western businesses. Among those most attracted were the oil firms, who rushed to investigate Russia's vast petroleum reserves. But, as they soon discovered,... View Details
- May 1995 (Revised February 1996)
- Case
Phillips Petroleum Co. and Norwegian Oil Policy
By: Willis M. Emmons III and Atte Almas
- March 1995 (Revised December 1995)
- Case
Dividend Policy at FPL Group, Inc. (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Craig F Schreiber
A Wall Street analyst has just learned that FPL (the holding company for Florida's largest electric utility) may cut its dividend in several days despite a 47-year streak of consecutive dividend increases. In response to the deregulation of the electric utility... View Details
- February 1995 (Revised April 1996)
- Case
MW Petroleum Corporation (B)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman, Peter Tufano and Barbara Wall
Amoco Corp. is negotiating to sell a wholly-owned subsidiary, MW Petroleum, to Apache Corp. MW owns large reserves of oil and gas comprising many properties at different stages of engineering, development, and production. The proposed acquisition is a large one for... View Details
- January 1995 (Revised June 1995)
- Teaching Note
China (C): Energy and the Environment TN
Teaching Note for (9-794-134). View Details
- January 1995
- Teaching Note
Renewable Energy in the United States TN
- January 1995
- Case
Controlling International Oil (B): The Rise and Fall of OPEC
By: Debora L. Spar and Richard H.K. Vietor
- December 1994
- Case
Stonyfield-Petro and the Harris Group: Forming Joint Ventures in the New Russia
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Paul D Harris
- December 1994 (Revised October 2009)
- Case
AES Honeycomb (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Sarah C. Mavrinac
Senior managers of the AES Corp., an independent power producer, must decide whether to drop the company's emphasis on corporate values and revamp organizational controls as advised by investment analysts and outside counsel. The company is recovering from an incident... View Details
- December 1994 (Revised February 1995)
- Case
Controlling International Oil (A): The Seven Sisters
By: Debora L. Spar and Richard H.K. Vietor
- October 1994
- Case
Bankers Trust: Global Investment Bank
By: Andre F. Perold and Kuljot Singh
In October 1992, Eugene Shanks, president of Bankers Trust New York Corp., and Brian Walsh, head of the Global Investment Bank (GIB) business unit, are considering a proposal for a large and complex financing involving the North Sea Oil Co. (NSOC). The financing... View Details
- October 1994
- Background Note
Note on Crude Oil and Crude Oil Derivatives Markets
By: Andre F. Perold, Wai Lee and Kuljot Singh
Briefly describes the crude oil markets and common derivatives contracts written on oil. The contracts are oil forward and futures contracts, and over-the-counter oil price swaps. View Details
- September 1994
- Teaching Note
KENETECH Corporation TN
Teaching Note for (9-294-111). View Details
Keywords: Energy Industry
- August 1994
- Case
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.: The Kaizen Program
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Energy Industry
- August 1994 (Revised May 1999)
- Teaching Note
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.: The Kaizen Program TN
By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan
- April 1994 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
China (C): Energy and the Environment
Describes energy and environmental policy in China during the period 1980-1993. China has implemented ambitious plans for electrification and the substitution of fossil fuels (mostly coal) for biomass. The environmental consequences of these changes, at the local and... View Details
- April 1994 (Revised September 1994)
- Case
KENETECH Corporation
Involves a strategic decision about how fast to ramp up sales. Improvements in technology have driven down the cost of electric power generated from wind turbines to the point where they are competitive with fossil-fuel plants. KENETECH needs to raise equity capital to... View Details