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  • June 2009 (Revised June 2009)
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VidaGas: VillageReach - The Mozambican Foundation for Community Development Joint Venture

This case describes the evolution of a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) distributor start-up, incubated by two not-for-profit NGOs to help improve the vaccine cold chain in Northern Mozambique. These NGOs must face the decision whether and how to sell their participation in... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Supply Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Investment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Health Industry; Mozambique
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

American Chicle Company, 1899–1922 Kenneth S. Adams Phillips Petroleum Company, 1938–1951 Terrence E. Adderley Kelly Services, 1967–Present Howard F. Ahmanson H. F. Ahmanson & Company, 1927–1968 Lester M. Alberthal, Jr. Electronic Data... View Details
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

of the King Faisal Foundation. Al-Faisal earned a BSc in industrial management from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. Omar K. Alghanim (MBA 2002) Fellowship The Omar K. Alghanim Fellowship was established through the... View Details

    Nitin Nohria

    Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

    As Dean, building on... View Details

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      Geoffrey G. Jones

      Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details

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        Rosabeth M. Kanter

        Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

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          Forest L. Reinhardt

          Forest L. Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and HBS’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotions and Tenure.

          Professor Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket... View Details

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            Peter Tufano

            Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

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            • 18 Jul 2023
            • Research & Ideas

            Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

            Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
            Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology

              Michael A. Wheeler

              Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

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                Richard H.K. Vietor

                Professor Vietor is Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He teaches courses on the international political economy. Before coming to the Business School in 1978, Professor Vietor held faculty appointments at Virginia... View Details

                Keywords: petroleum; petroleum; petroleum; petroleum; petroleum
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                General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

                represented a futures market in which buyers and sellers made deals before the cotton was harvested or brought to the factories. Later, Lehman Brothers branched out into other commodities and joined the Coffee, Sugar, and Cocoa Exchange, and the New York View Details
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                Historical Data Visualization - Business History

                & Economics Per Capita GDP in Constant Dollars Trends Over Time Managing Distance Personal Computers: Density by Country Trends Over Time Commodities Petroleum Exports by Country Trends Over Time Politics & Economics Political Governance... View Details
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                Decarbonization and Sustainable Production: Immersive Field Course in Denmark and the Netherlands - MBA

                Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
                • 23 Jul 2012
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                The Power of Conversational Leadership

                your vision but also at the same time listening to what employees have to say," Groysberg says. Talk, Inc. highlights the case of the Indian company Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd., which at the turn of the twenty-first century... View Details
                Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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                Historical Data & Sources - Business History

                Bank as a development indicator in 2009. Download Data Set in Excel Petroleum Exports by Country B.R. Mitchell, International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-2005. New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2007 B.R. Mitchell, International... View Details
                • 25 Apr 2024
                • News

                Origin Stories

                American Petroleum Institute. At Harvard and Harvard Business School, Hess learned the language of business and the languages of the countries where Hess did business, including Spanish, Arabic, and Farsi. “I had no idea at the time that... View Details
                • 11 Mar 2001
                • Research & Ideas

                Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

                massive growth in world FDI in mining. As petroleum consumption grew with new uses, the search for oil became worldwide. Oil was the only fuel that could drive the new motor car, while the demand for rubber tyres for cars created an... View Details
                Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
                • 11 May 2022
                • Blog Post

                MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

                This Mother’s Day, we celebrated progress and possibility on the HBS campus! HBS first accepted women into the MBA Program in 1963. Fast forward six decades and now classrooms are 44% female and most sections have 1-2 mothers. Across the RC (first-year) and EC... View Details
                • 08 Sep 2020
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                2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Ashley Zumwalt-Forbes (MBA 2017)

                What was your undergraduate university and major? I studied petroleum engineering at the University of Oklahoma. Why did you decide to apply to HBS via the 2+2 deferred admissions process? While at OU, I got involved in an organization... View Details