Filter Results:
(1,587)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,587)
- People (3)
- News (375)
- Research (946)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (17)
- Faculty Publications (610)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,587)
- People (3)
- News (375)
- Research (946)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (17)
- Faculty Publications (610)
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
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Managing Perceptions of Distress at Work: Reframing Emotion as Passion By: Wolf, Elizabeth Baily, Jooa Julia Lee, Sunita Sah, and Alison Wood... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
happiness is even bigger than would be predicted if income was the only argument in the utility function. In other words, introducing omitted variables worsens the income-without-happiness paradox. A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
ice-cream fountain boasts a marble counter, and customers eat 100 percent buffalo burgers in a walnut-paneled dining room hung with original oil paintings by Western artists. In another part of the store,... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
price increases drove an industry uptick as the market shifted from oil to coal. Demand for ships outstripped supply until 1981, when a global recession and the US coal miners' strike led to a collapse in... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Full Circle
pre-vet course of study at Texas A&M but was lured to the booming oil and gas industry after graduation. He applied to HBS a few years later and... 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
- 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
William S. Farish
Farish, who had established himself as one of the leading independent oilmen in Texas, joined with Standard Oil becoming head of the firm in 1937. Farish was one of Standard Oil’s leading authorities on new production concepts View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Hoop Dreams
Boston entrepreneur Steve Belkin (MBA 1971) first tried to buy an NBA team — the Boston Celtics — twenty years ago. That attempt ended in failure for the founder and chairman of Trans National Group, a marketing View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
inputs from suppliers that met recognized standards of sustainability. What’s more, the plan’s environmental goals—for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, water use, and waste—encompassed not only the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
and compare these with prior life cycle data for biopolymers as well as other fibers, and we find that nanoclay production results in lower energy use and greenhouse View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
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
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
Winning Smiles: BioMine CEO Privahini Bradoo with teammate and company VP Paolo Pacorini. Related Links Watch Privahini Bradoo talk about BioMine. Meet the 12 finalists (videos) Learn more about all twelve finalists View photos from the... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
levels of aid. We call these joint phenomena the political transfer problem and argue that the largest windfall of the 20th century, the period from 1973 to 1985 during which oil prices were at all-time... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
Tell us about what you were doing before HBS and what brought you to HBS. Prior to HBS, I spent six years in the oil and gas industry working... View Details