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On June 23, 2006, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation announced that it was simultaneously acquiring two public companies, Kerr-McGee and Western Gas Resources, in all-cash deals. The total price was about $24 billion, a figure close to Anadarko's market cap at the time.... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Model; Transformation; Negotiation; Organizational Culture; Public Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Alignment; Valuation; Energy Industry; United States

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June 2009
Supplement

Executive Remuneration at Royal Dutch Shell (B)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kaitlyn Simpson

At the 2009 Shell annual meeting, the majority of shareholders vote against the exclusive pay package. The B case compares the remuneration committee perspective (and their rationale for using discretion to award the bonuses) as well as the shareholder perspective (and... View Details

Keywords: Voting; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Perspective; Energy Industry

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April 2009
Teaching Note

Satelite Distribuidora de Petroleo (TN)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Andrea Minardi

Teaching Note for [808062]. View Details

Keywords: Natural Environment; Opportunities; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Business Model; Energy Industry; Brazil

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February 2007 (Revised June 2009)
Case

Edelnor (A)

By: Jordan I. Siegel

Fernando del Sol, president of F. S. Inversiones in Chile, had just bought himself a headache as a New Year's present. On December 31, 2001, he purchased a Chilean electricity generation and transmission company called Edelnor that was in danger of becoming insolvent... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Courts and Trials; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Chile

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March 2006
Teaching Note

The Harmonized Savings Plan at BP Amoco (TN)

By: Luis M. Viceira

Keywords: Energy Industry

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September 1988 (Revised November 1995)
Teaching Note

Phillips 66: Controlling a Company Through Crisis & Transforming for the 1990s, Teaching Note

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Change Management; Crisis Management; Energy Industry

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March 2004 (Revised April 2005)
Case

International Rivers Network and the Bujagali Dam Project (B)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Energy Industry; Uganda

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February 2004
Teaching Note

Williams, 2002 (TN)

By: Robin Greenwood

Teaching Note to (9-203-068). View Details

Keywords: Energy Industry; United States

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October 2003 (Revised April 2005)
Case

Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron

By: Malcolm S. Salter

Presents an historical overview of Enron's rise and fall and summarizes what is currently known about (1) the evolution of Enron's business model, (2) the organizational processes Enron officials relied on to drive and monitor the business, (3) emergent behavior... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Behavior; Governing and Advisory Boards; Success; Transformation; Failure; Business Processes; Energy Industry; United States

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May 2001 (Revised January 2003)
Teaching Note

Calpine Corporation: The Evolution From Project to Corporate Finance TN

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane

Teaching Note for (9-201-098). View Details

Keywords: Energy Industry; United States

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October 1999
Case

Royal Dutch/Shell in Transition (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine

After the Brent Spar episode and the 1995 events in Nigeria, Shell undertakes an intensive review of its values and business principles. At the same time, it conducts the largest multi-stakeholder consultation in its history in an effort to better understand society's... View Details