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- 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
- 12 Mar 2024
- HBS Case
How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones
Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
Publication:Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (forthcoming) Abstract We discuss the birth of a new economy in a society that has only recently emerged from a 22-year-long civil war. The pace of growth so far has been fast but uneven. We find that aid... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
price of oils and fats in the decade and by plowing back profits rather than remitting great dividends. By 1929 Unilever had received $12.2 million from its U.S. business since the time of its start, but... View Details
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
other hand, always prided itself on its personal touch, empowering individual stores—even individual employees—to make decisions about products that emphasize high quality, healthy, and local foods. That decentralization, however, caused enormous inefficiencies that... View Details
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
governments by oil and gas firms, and negative stock price reactions for affected firms at the announcement of regulations mandating disclosure. This suggests that sample firm managers and their investors... 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
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
http://hbr.org/search/613083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-027 Société Internationale de Plantations et de Finance (SIPEF) Management of a company with extensive palm oil tree plantations questions the usefulness to management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
United States, what were the economic and political advantages of building and managing the canal? A: The Panama Canal provided massive cost savings to intercoastal commerce. Before the Second World War, the vast majority of the cargo transiting the Panama Canal... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
1955 and became the owner and president of Pan-Atlantic, which he renamed SeaLand Industries. The maiden voyage for McLean's converted oil tanker, the Ideal X, carried fifty-eight new box trailers or containers from Port Newark, New... View Details
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
stability's sake. "They remain fragmented due to Italian tradition," he says. "Most of these families have been producing cheese for centuries and take pride in what they do, resisting becoming part of larger corporations." And there are other... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
Unilever proved flexible enough to retain them, fostered by its belief that ultimately consumers worldwide would want its products. Moreover the oil price rises resulted in an extraordinary growth of... View Details
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911411-PDF-ENG CNOOC: Building a World-class Energy Company Joseph L. Bower, Nancy Hua Dai, and Michael Shih-ta ChenHarvard Business School Case 311-074 Fu Chengyu is the fifth CEO to lead China National Offshore View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
cheeses won’t resonate with tech entrepreneurs. Enduring. Building a brand around renewable energy might not stick if oil prices fall for a sustained period or a pro-coal leader takes power, but the unique... View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
pots and pans and numerous other items, became chairman of Alcoa. Edward Prizer, who became president of Vacuum Oil in 1918, made his reputation by organizing the firm's domestic and foreign sales operations. Clarence Mott Woolley,... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
perfectly—he got heatstroke, they missed a tour of the Vatican, and it rained for two days straight—the couple fought so much over whether the trip was worth the high price tag that the husband threatened to take the next flight home. But... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?
from the US the ‘largest home market’ advantage, allowing them to subsidize pricing globally. I guarantee that Tencent, Alibaba and others will fill the gap left by a misguided break up.” David de Weese added, “It is not at all clear that... View Details
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
oil and ecotourism Giacomin draws on two very different cases to analyze that phenomenon, first examining the evolution of the rubber and palm oil plantation clusters in Southeast Asia from 1900 to 1970 and... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
after Lehman Brothers’ collapse ushered in the Global Financial Crisis. Lyondell was the world’s third-largest diversified chemicals company, with $55 billion in annual revenues and operations in 25 countries. Hit by a one-two punch of falling View Details