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Philip Sporn
Sporn was one of the foremost contributors to the growth in the consumption and dissemination of electric power. A tireless advocate for the industry, Sporn’s efforts were aimed at greater efficiency of operations through technological advances in the fields of... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Harry F. Sinclair
After ill-fated attempts to make money by buying and selling oil leases, Sinclair entered the refining business in 1906, acquiring several companies that were eventually consolidated into Sinclair Oil. Once the larger venture was created, Sinclair invested heavily in... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
John H. Pew
John Pew, along with his younger brother Joseph Jr., took control of their father's company in 1912. The Pew brothers grew it from a small firm, with just a 0.9% share of the overall industrial production of oil, into the country's 15th largest oil refiner in 1941.... View Details
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Amos L. Beaty
In 1907, Beaty became the attorney for Texaco, and was able to secure new laws, which smoothed the way for the company’s entry into the Oklahoma oil fields. In 1920, Beaty was elected president of the company. During his presidency, Beaty concentrated on the expansion... View Details
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W. Alton Jones
Jones, as president of Cities Service Company (a holding company controlling petroleum, natural gas, and power subsidiaries), was responsible for completing oil pipelines from Texas to major East coast cities (3,128 miles). View Details
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Haroldson L. Hunt
Hunt built the largest independent oil company in the U.S. During World War II, Hunt sold more oil to the Allies than the total German output, and supplied 85% of the natural gas piped into the eastern United States. By the 1970s, his fortune, through major... View Details
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John P. Harbin
Despite the distressed economic climate of the late 70’s, Harbin posted over a decade of revenue and earning gains for Halliburton, a multi-billion dollar oil services and construction firm. Under his leadership, revenues increased five-fold from $1.4 billion in 1972... View Details
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Robert O. Anderson
Anderson parlayed a small oil business in New Mexico into one of the largest and most successful oil businesses in the United States. From 1966 to 1982, through acquisitions and strategic diversification, Anderson grew revenues 20-fold (from $1 billion to over $20... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 01 Dec 2001
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BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
must be carefully utilized in light of its far-reaching implications for a company's many stakeholders. "Once considered a rare event, restructuring has become an important part of everyday business practice," Gilson asserts in Creating... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions
observed. One of the “lucky ones,” Brink worked for the telephone company before he set up his own one-man shop — Utilities Audit Bureau — as a consultant on telephone services and systems. “In 49 years,” Brink proudly declared, “I never... View Details
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Gopesh Mittal
While consulting with McKinsey & Co on industry projects ranging from education to energy utilities in India, Gopesh Mittal discovered a deep interest in one especially important field, health care. “I worked for a health care company... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
In the debate over whether to increase or decrease the stringency of environmental regulations, the possibility that government agencies might use purchasing to stimulate market demand for "green" products and services is often overlooked. Nevertheless, several recent... View Details
- December 1993 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
Kochman, Reidt + Haigh, Inc.
By: Richard S. Ruback and Roy Burstin
A small company faces the dilemma of how to finance growth (i.e., internally generated cash flows vs. outside financing sources). An innovative concept positions the company in promoting a niche within the kitchen-cabinet industry and in looking for an optimal way of... View Details
Keywords: Cash Flow; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Growth and Development Strategy; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry
Ruback, Richard S., and Roy Burstin. "Kochman, Reidt + Haigh, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 294-056, December 1993. (Revised June 2000.)
- 15 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Advice from an Intern
whatever it is you’ll be working on. You may be quite different in terms of age or background from co-workers. The organization or your team might not be well equipped to utilize you well or visualize how you can fit into the mix. That... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Driving the family business onto a global stage
Anand Mahindra (AB 1977, MBA 1981), as chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M), has grown the family business into a thriving Indian multinational automotive manufacturing corporation, creating jobs for thousands. Not content to dominate India’s... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
companies to develop ever more sophisticated technologies, products, and systems — typically for the market's high end, where margins are greatest. However, the market's ability to utilize and pay for these advances grows more slowly,... View Details
- 19 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market
from growers to buyers, a deliberate choice made by balancing cost and practicality. The auction, along with the transfer of flowers, occurs for just a few hours each morning. This limited operational window makes it cost-prohibitive to invest in robotic solutions that... View Details
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Library you can engage with cultural artifacts and vital historical records; utilize our world-class digital collections, research tools, and curriculum support; explore the inspiring physical and digital spaces that enrich our community;... View Details
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Teaching Guidelines - Creating Emerging Markets
of the Andes (Colombia), University of Glasgow (Scotland), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA), and the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania (USA). For ideas on ways that you may utilize CEM transcripts and video... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Abraham Neyman Abstract—Building on the work of Nash, Harsanyi, and Shapley, we define a cooperative solution for strategic games that takes account of both the competitive and the cooperative aspects of such games. We prove existence in the general non-transferable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne