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    Howard B. Keck

    Assuming leadership of his father’s company at the age of 50, Keck focused his energies on growing the independent oil firm. He invested heavily in energy exploration and production, allowing Superior to... View Details
    Keywords: Utilities & Energy

      Alden J. Laborde

      One year after founding the Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company, Laborde had produced the world’s first offshore mobile drilling rig, quickly setting a new standard in the industry. This was followed by a series of new View Details
      Keywords: Utilities & Energy
      • 16 Nov 2010
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

      Innovation happens fast and slowly. The GPS applications so prevalent today to guide us from Point A to Point B took their first baby steps nearly three decades ago when President Ronald Reagan encouraged the release of military GPS... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
      • 15 Nov 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Funding the Design of Livable Cities

      reduce greenhouse gas emissions, sophisticated design and engineering that cuts energy use by maximizing natural light and reducing the need for heating View Details
      Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

        Walter C. Teagle

        international arena, acquiring operations in Iran and Venezuela. He was also instrumental in expanding the company’s presence in the petrochemistry field. All of these endeavors led Standard Oil’s market share to grow from 2% to 11.5%,... View Details
        Keywords: Utilities & Energy
        • 06 Nov 2019
        • Op-Ed

        Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

        The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
        Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy
        • 20 Jul 2010
        • First Look

        First Look: July 20

        satellite telecommunications system, $900 million A2 Toll Road in Poland, $20 billion Sakhalin II gas field in Russia, and the $28 billion Dabhol power project. Globally, firms financed $240 billion of... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace

          John E. Swearingen

          Swearingen took over the inefficient Standard Oil of Indiana in 1960. He streamlined its operations and aligned its business units while expanding Standard’s exploration of both domestic View Details
          Keywords: Utilities & Energy
          • 29 Jul 2008
          • First Look

          First Look: July 29, 2008

            Working PapersTraveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Abstract We develop a framework to examine how politicians with short-term electoral... View Details
          Keywords: Martha Lagace
          • 15 Jan 2013
          • First Look

          First Look: January 15

          disruption. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43906   Cases & Course MaterialsRomney vs. Obama and U.S. Energy Policy Abdelal, Rawi, and Kaitlyn TuthillHarvard Business School Case... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

            William L. Stewart

            Assuming control of Union Oil from his father, William Stewart’s first task was to repair the company’s finances, which had suffered under his father’s huge waves of expansion. Stewart accomplished this without problems View Details
            Keywords: Utilities & Energy
            • 27 May 2009
            • First Look

            First Look: May 27, 2009

            redesign? The predictable, responsive, and lower-cost care today's health-care leaders—and patients—seek. Sovereign Wealth in Abu Dhabi Author:Rawi Abdelal Publication:Geopolitics 14, no. 2 (April 2009): 317-327 Abstract By the turn of... View Details
            Keywords: Martha Lagace
            • 14 Oct 2014
            • News

            When it comes to climate change, companies must prepare now

            conservation efforts, but through strategy and innovation. Now is the time to learn about options, before greenhouse gas emissions get costlier. “Climate change is about decision-making under uncertainty.... View Details

              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... View Details
              Keywords: Utilities & Energy
              • 30 Jan 2018
              • First Look

              January 30, 2018

              Flying J. Flying J owned and operated hundreds of truck stops—which it called Travel Plazas—nationwide and was a growing multi-billion dollar business, but broader problems in the View Details
              Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
              • 18 Aug 2009
              • First Look

              First Look: August 18

              Sustainability needed to develop positions on several issues. Tactically, he needed to recommend whether the company should purchase carbon offsets to help meet its aggressive greenhouse gas reduction targets, View Details
              Keywords: Martha Lagace
              • 24 Oct 2006
              • First Look

              First Look: October 24, 2006

                Working PapersManaging Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson Abstract To date, little research has been done on managing the... View Details
              Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
              • 16 Jul 2013
              • First Look

              First Look: July 16

                Publications 2013 pub The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents By: Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro Abstract—Change is hard, especially in a large organization. Yet some leaders succeed-often spectacularly-at transforming their... View Details
              Keywords: Anna Secino
              • 06 Nov 2012
              • First Look

              First Look: November 6

              vulnerability to climate change and their strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Their responses vary widely. We theorize and empirically identify several factors... View Details
              Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
              • 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 View Details
              Keywords: Margie Kelley; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries