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- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
determinant of their severity. The Empire Struck Back: Sanctions and Compensation in the Mexican Oil Expropriation of 1938 Author:Noel Maurer Publication:Journal of Economic History (forthcoming) Abstract The Mexican expropriation of 1938... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John R. Davis
to play in the big leagues.” Two years after earning his MBA, he returned to Texas and joined Frito-Lay, where he learned enough about the oil business — vegetable oil, that is — to partner with some friends and buy an View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Joe…
promising breakthrough technologies that could have a real impact on energy-intensive industries like electric utilities, oil and gas, chemicals, and mining, and then provide financing to help build fast-growing start-up companies. As an... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- Profile
Bei Guo
with more than forty other students and faculty. "It was amazing to see such a small country, in the middle of a war, so engaged with entrepreneurship," Bei says. "They don't have oil or other natural resources; brain power... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Carry It On
these two areas, and that gives me a very good feeling.” With John Plukas (MBA ’68), with whom he had previously founded HCW Oil and Gas, an oil-industry real estate and investment firm, Glassman launched Wainwright Bank in 1987. The bank... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
cars advance unseen. It’s a lesson American carmakers apparently forgot. “For the six decades preceding the second oil shock in the 1980s, the United States was a highly protected market,” declares HBS professor Malcolm Salter, who has... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
increases - instead, the institution will bear the risk. Corporations are also using contract technologies for strategic purposes. To illustrate, Merton cited a hypothetical example of a company with widespread crude-oil reserves and a major distribution system for... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
the hope of a more stable future for their children. “This is also a fascinating entrepreneurial story,” Reinhardt notes. “These farmers have reduced their exposure to corn prices, but at the expense of exposure to the oil market.” With... View Details
Chandler’s Legacies
had integrating the U.S. economy, creating out of necessity new organizational forms, financial instruments and accounting techniques. For my Ph.D. thesis, I decided to study transportation technologies in my home country of Colombia. I explored how and why shipping,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
turn, means putting the "mom-and-pop" operations cherished in American lore out of business. Indeed, the creation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882, which put small companies out of business and bureaucratized economic relations, was a... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
the global food chain. “Global linkages between food and energy are hard to understand. Might cutting off Russian oil help drive green technologies in Europe? Might it increase oil production in the United... View Details
- 04 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Leadership with Purpose: Redefining Success & Impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019)
Transformation at Legrand India and had spent years gaining diverse industry experience across the manufacturing, oil and gas, and energy sectors. My goal wasn’t just to refine my skills—I wanted to broaden my perspective on strategy,... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
"we have a worldwide mission: to become leading corporate citizens." In several cases, this mandate was the result of traumatic experiences or scandals that required huge efforts on the part of companies to repair damaged reputations. The 1989 Exxon Valdez... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
led it back to profitability during the oil boom of the 1970s. By 1983, however, boom had turned to bust. After restructuring the company to a more suitable size, Strassler cashed out and helped his brother launch a family-run investment... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
change. Energy Professor Michael Porter and BCG have partnered on research into how the country can maximize the opportunity presented by America’s unconventional oil and gas resources in a responsible way. In March, an HBS energy summit... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
Eacho, left, and Minnick (Getty Images) Congress is at a standstill over carbon. One side wants to regulate emissions as a pollutant; the other fears that any move to regulate oil and gas will impede growth and cost jobs. A compromise... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
Playing by the Rules, Ethics at Work, a new series of video case studies of business ethics, aims to teach people that there’s a direct link between morality and the bottom line. Joe Badaracco, the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at HBS, consulted on the series,... View Details
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
a permanent reality in corporate boardrooms—whether or not executives have a deep-seated passion for the social issues involved. Expectations are changing, agreed panelists. Oil corporations, for example, are well versed in the standard... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
for Shell Oil until enrolling at HBS to broaden his skills and career options. “For me,” he says, “HBS was a step toward rebuilding the respect our family had enjoyed in Poland before the devastation of the war.” Makowski’s business... View Details