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  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

In Charge

and descendant of a Creole voodoo princess, landed on her feet. A former utility executive and state official in Illinois, she became the new CEO of Johnson Publishing, which produces Ebony and Jet magazines. About her stint in the White... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 27 Aug 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

It's common in Harvard Business School classrooms to discuss the "pivot," the moment an enterprise changes direction to pursue a new strategy. On a visit to eastern Japan, MBA students talked to Masamichi Ono, CEO of chrysanthemum grower Ono Kashoen, which... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities
  • 14 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities
  • 24 Feb 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Accelerating Innovation In Energy: Insights from Multiple Sectors

Keywords: by Rebecca M. Henderson & Richard G. Newell; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities

    Ross S. Sterling

    Using proceeds from his feed store business, Sterling began investing in oil wells in 1909. Forming Humble Oil with several other astute oil businessmen, Sterling led his company through a strong expansion period, during which the company’s capitalization grew... View Details
    Keywords: Utilities & Energy

      William L. Mellon

      Under Mellon’s management, the firm became a pioneer on several fronts. He opened the nation’s first service stations in 1913 became and expanded into international oil exploration. By the mid-1920s, Gulf’s refinery at Port Arthur, Texas, was the largest in the world.... View Details
      Keywords: Utilities & Energy

        Kenneth S. Adams

        Adams climbed the ranks at Phillips Petroleum, beginning as a clerk in the warehouse division. In 1938, when Adams became president, Phillips Petroleum had a gross income of $78 million with 8,000 employees. When Adams retired from that office, Phillips had become the... View Details
        Keywords: Utilities & Energy

          Armand Hammer

          Hammer expanded Occidental Oil from a tiny, near-bankrupt California oil firm into one of the “Big Oil” companies - turning it into a conglomerate, beginning with the acquisition of an oil concession from Libya. Hammer was also instrumental in initiating trade between... View Details
          Keywords: Utilities & Energy

            Jean Paul Getty

            After accumulating a one-third interest in Getty Oil Company, Getty negotiated for a controlling interest in the company after the death of his father. Getty went on to merge Tidewater Oil Company, Skelly Oil Company, and the Missouri Oil Company into Getty Oil, which... View Details
            Keywords: Utilities & Energy

              Otto D. Donnell

              When Donnell took over the presidency of Ohio Oil in 1927, the company had over $104 million in assets with $7 million in net profits. Donnell began a program of expansion in 1930, purchasing various oil companies and service stations. By 1948, Donnell had nearly... View Details
              Keywords: Utilities & Energy

                Joshua S. Cosden

                Known as the “prince of petroleum,” Cosden is credited with establishing Oklahoma as a major oil producing state. Starting with a small parcel of land, he built a $35 million oil business in ten short years. Through his oil discoveries and exploration, he almost... View Details
                Keywords: Utilities & Energy
                • 01 Apr 2014
                • Research & Ideas

                When Do Alliances Make Sense?

                To answer one of the oldest business quandaries—is it better to partner or go solo on a project—John Beshears looked for answers in an unusual place: the oil and gas drilling industry in the Gulf of Mexico. But instead of mining for energy sources, Beshears dug for... View Details
                Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Utilities; Utilities
                • 22 Aug 2013
                • Working Paper Summaries

                From Green Users to Green Voters

                Keywords: by Diego Comin & Johannes Rode; Utilities; Utilities
                • 14 Jun 2012
                • Working Paper Summaries

                “Power from Sunshine”: A Business History of Solar Energy

                Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Loubna Bouamane; Utilities; Utilities
                • 06 Dec 2011
                • Working Paper Summaries

                What Impedes Oil and Gas Companies’ Transparency?

                Keywords: by Paul Healy, Venkat Kuppuswamy & George Serafeim; Utilities; Utilities
                • 26 Apr 2011
                • Op-Ed

                HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

                Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
                Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
                • 07 Apr 2011
                • What Do You Think?

                When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

                Summing Up The variety of responses stimulated by this month's column may help explain why our public institutions are so often perceived as responding slowly to natural or man-made "meltdowns." First, as Ravindra Edirisooriya suggests, we had better have a... View Details
                Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Utilities; Utilities
                • 03 Mar 2011
                • Research & Ideas

                HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa

                From Tunisia to Egypt, Bahrain to Yemen, as a number of nations in North Africa and the Middle East go through cataclysmic changes, the world watches and wonders what the future may hold as myriad protestors risk their lives for revolutionary change. Three Harvard... View Details
                Keywords: Re: Deepak Malhotra; Utilities; Utilities
                • 08 Jun 2011
                • Lessons from the Classroom

                Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

                Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
                Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
                • 07 Oct 2010
                • Working Paper Summaries

                The Profits of Power: Commercial Realpolitik in Eurasia

                Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal; Utilities; Utilities
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