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- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
the hot career path at the time. “I loved the intellectual challenge in working with really smart people,” recalls Weinstein. “What I didn’t enjoy very much was that I didn’t actually care whether or not Shell Oil of Canada made an extra... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
the regulatory and the market conditions that led to their success will remain the same and will not shift significantly in response to sweeping changes in technology, policy, or consumer preference. Some oil and gas companies, for... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
personal data collection have a surprising ally: Scott Howe. Why? Because it's good for business. "How people think about data is going to change seismically in the coming years," says Howe. "Each of us will manage the data that is created around us. We'll think of it... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
masterminded a unique way to provide Singapore's oil refineries and chemical companies with the land they desperately needed to keep growing. By joining seven of Singapore's southern islands with landfill to form what is now known as... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
this process mainly involved horizontal integration, some form of legal or administrative centralization followed by vertical integration. Standard Oil represents the canonical example of this development. Standard Oil's history is also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
and oil and gas, that it says could enable value creation to the tune of $2 trillion to $3 trillion in the next decade—a figure on par with the GDP of France or Italy. To create a vision of what that might look like, Professor Yoffie... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
Business School Case 909-403 Transformation of COFCO in a Changing Environment China's COFCO, the country's leading edible oil and food importer and exporter and its largest food manufacturer, had in its 50-plus years of operation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
connections such as former places of employment. Their forthcoming paper, "Trading Favors," due for release in the fall, should be of great interest to anyone who deals with the stock market. "Legislation has a massive effect on firm value," Cohen says. "So if you're... View Details
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
Internasional Harvard Business School Case 207-021 In late 2004, Hilmi Panigoro, CEO of the publicly traded Indonesian oil company Medco Energi Internasional, is striving to regain majority control of the company his brother Arifin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
beyond the bottom line, and so we need to have all that data ready to sort of slowly move that that oil tanker around. >Hi, I'm Georgia Zocca (GMP 23) from the General Management Program in 2017. My question is, if we want to invest in... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
HawkinsHarvard Business School Supplement 112-026 Oil and gas company Enman Oil attempts to lower its total leverage value by switching from the successful efforts method to the full costs method. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
spent to drill into the deep seismic target, confidential geologic data will reveal to Tony and MillPet a hidden treasure of oil and gas, or that the well is a dry hole. Either way, Tony will go back to his wife and academic life, and... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
watchmakers to put the most pristine parts, screws, and oil in the perfect locations. “When you think about capturing value from innovations, pricing is quite possibly the most important decision that you’ll ever make” Prices for A. Lange... View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
and practical implications on the concept of accidental innovation. How Kayak Users Built a New Industry Customers have produced some of the most important innovations in industries ranging from oil refining to scientific instruments. But... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
long-distance oil and gas pipelines are guided by modern regulations and an infrastructure blueprint,” Skelly explains. “But existing US electric lines were erected by utility companies several decades ago, to connect local customers to... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
differentiate itself in the market and become fiercely competitive. However, starting from 2009, changing regulations in Turkey’s highly regulated oil and gas industry limited OPET’s marketing tools, forcing Guler to revisit his marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
Arthur ("Dick") Watson and his brother Tom, the head of IBM; and several members of Cleveland's Corning clan, whose assets came from, among other things, oil and banking. In 1966, with the addition of the Ayer-Rice Trust, which oversaw... View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Problems with the contracted supply of natural gas and the volatility of oil prices, coupled with regulatory changes made by the government, force Colbun to revise its business strategy and its sourcing mix. New legislation will replace... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
offers: one from an oil and gas company and another from the consulting firm Bain, which had just set up an office in the country in 1997. She turned to longtime friend and chemical engineering classmate Rodrigo Osmo (MBA 2003) for... View Details