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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
Bazerman Periodical:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (in press) Abstract People often experience tension over certain choices (e.g., they should reduce their gas consumption or increase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
held up because of its interpretation as a tax. If you think about the environment, you think about provisions that are associated with oil and gas, drilling, natural resource extraction. If you think about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
Joseph P. Routh
When Routh assumed the position of President in 1938, Pittston’s coal and oil production businesses were generating $26 million in revenues and losing approximately $1 million... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
from used vegetable oil and sugars. The polymer can be used to replace plastic, is fully home compostable, and doesn’t create microplastics when it breaks down. Goodwin is... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
Lucio A. Noto
Noto first concentrated on consolidating and improving efficiency in Mobil's oil, gas and chemical businesses, including trimming bureaucracy at the corporate level. Noto also... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
The Secret Sauce
assignment seriously, crafted a plan, and spent the necessary time to implement it.” That planning paid off: The Class of 1982 raised $24.4 million, exceeding their goal and establishing a new 30th Reunion... View Details
- Career Coach
Jan Pianca
Jan (MSc, International Management, Bocconi University) is the Educational Programs Assistant Director Europe at the HBS Europe Research Center in Paris. He focuses on European employer outreach to develop and manage the School’s... View Details
Thomas B. Pickens
Starting his career with only a small drilling, exploration and production firm, Pickens developed a knack for acquiring oil-rich properties. His luck afforded him the wealth he used to begin his famous string of attempted hostile... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Responsibility to set a good example in the community
Paul E. Viera, Jr. (MBA 1985), CEO of Earnest Partners LLC, talks about the importance of setting a good example and the value of his HBS alumni network. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
further objective is to support economic growth, with “affordable” prices for energy and avoidance of supply interruptions. The conflicts among these are apparent. ANWR drilling (Alaska) would be economical View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master
“vindictive” but to settle on compensation for top executives at bailed-out companies that would be competitive without promoting excessive risk-taking. (Feinberg’s definition of “excessive”: “I know it when I see it.”) He noted that 85 percent of the people whose... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
and less constrained groups. Finally, the primary merchant uses of refunds are to pay for necessities (grocery stores, gas stations, etc.), and the fraction of the refund... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Closing the ‘Intention-Action’ Gap
goods that have often struggled to demonstrate a significant shift towards sustainability. Here, we feature two such business leaders from Malaysia and Jordan: Mavath R. Chandran is one of the most influential figures in the Malaysian... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
Nicholas Tiller (MBA 1998) grew up in a farming community, but it was his experience in hedge-fund management in the food and energy sectors that led him to establish Sustainable America, a nonprofit with the aim of reducing US View Details
Langbourne M. Williams, Jr.
After launching a stockholder attack on the management of Freeport Sulphur in 1930, Williams found himself in the CEO position three years later. Under his direction, Freeport experienced a major turnaround in performance and became the... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
materialistic things. These ancient Asian values are the treasures of my life. Alan Li - MBA ‘20 Tell us about your background: I was born and raised in Atlanta, GA to immigrant parents from China. I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
A dozen budding social entrepreneurs pitched their ideas for innovative products and services during the annual Social Enterprise Conference in February, and four came away with top honors. The sold-out... View Details
David Rockefeller
bank’s international business which contributed $6 billion of income in 1979 and positioned it as an important lender to large, multinational American industrial conglomerates, especially oil companies. View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
"Of course it would be a different story entirely if we could extract crude oil from stem cells." © Jack Ziegler/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com In light of the latest developments of the on-again, off-again, on-again... View Details