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- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni Host Annual Energy CEO Summit The HBS Club of Houston presented its fourth annual Energy CEO Summit on April 3, which featured four of the industry’s top CEOs discussing trends and challenges around the theme of “Energy Security and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
oil industry. I came full circle with both of those cases, having spent my career in the oil industry and as CEO of a company involved in the Macondo well disaster in 2010. Going through the Macondo crisis... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
of Mexico shrimp fisherman who stayed in business with low-interest economic injury loans after the BP oil spill, to a Pennsylvania drill bit manufacturer whose SBA-financed technology was instrumental in rescuing the trapped Chilean... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
her first year out of HBS working as the Oil of Olay brand manager for Procter & Gamble (P & G) in Bangkok, Hoa returned to Hanoi to found Galaxy. With clients such as P&G, Motorola, and Boeing, she has established a foothold in one of... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
changes,” Turner notes. “The quality then is inferior, but some producers mix it in with their better grades to stretch yield. We decided not to do that.” Turner also links his brand’s flavor to a purification process inspired by his experience in the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
page turner in terms of how we were going to escape the claws of this hostile predator who in fact, had bought Lincoln Savings in New York and Union Oil in Canada. And within a year or two from the time that we were successful in terms of... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
after it was reconfigured following a merger, Barford then took up the reins of Valleydene Corporation Limited, a family-run holding company that has a majority interest in GSW and also oversees warehouse facilities, oil and gas... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Students Win Energy Competition
were given 36 hours to analyze a case about how a mid-tier oil and gas company should respond to federal mandates requiring ethanol-blended gasoline. Each team presented its conclusions to, and was questioned by, a panel of executives... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Floor hand Ray Gerrish works to make repairs on a drilling rig outside Watford City. Employees work around the clock at Raven Rig No. 1, one of more than 150 oil rigs in the Bakken. (photos by Jim Gehrz/Minneapolis Star Tribune/ZUMA Press... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
Reconstruction of Male Identity,” is based on a study she conducted while living among crew members on an offshore oil platform, 130 miles off the coast of southern Louisiana. “I interviewed men involved in all aspects of the platform’s... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
discontent for many American families. Bundled up in chilly homes, they see their heating bills cutting deeply into the rest of their household budget. Lowering the thermostat, they wonder when keeping warm became a luxury in the wealthiest nation in the world.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
underscores a new reality in the United States. At the center of this change is the fact that U.S. oil reserves have diminished from an estimated 39 billion barrels in 1970 to 21 billion today. The gushers that made Texans in ten-gallon... 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
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
President Bush himself has now urged ratification of the UNCLOS. Please delineate the Arctic’s economic and strategic importance. We produce 20 percent of America’s oil out of the Arctic today, and the U.S. Geological Survey estimate is... 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
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
engineer Bob Stobaugh decided to pursue his true vocation: teaching. "As a manager in the oil and chemical industries, I often needed to explain complex business problems to my coworkers," Stobaugh says. "I found that I enjoyed the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
has a lot in common with film producing and screenwriting. “There is definitely something to be said for having the kind of training I had at Goldman,” says Epstein, who finished production in May on The Deal, a “global oil thriller” she... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method
strategies. Procter & Gamble employed this model when it wanted to become a major player in the global beauty-care sector. It transformed the down-market Oil of Olay into a world-class brand and proved that this product could attract both... View Details