Gulf - Publications - Faculty & Research

Portrait Project

Assaf Harlap

Too overweight to ever be chosen for football practice, uninspired by school, dealing with a family divorce, and spending several unforgettable days in a bomb shelter — sweating and shivering in my gas mask during the Gulf War — my... View Details

Portrait Project

Marwan Chaar

energy, we as a society of Muslims are responsible for addressing these challenges. It's ironic that the first time I entered a mosque was when I left the Muslim world and came to America. Countries in the Gulf are in need of a spiritual... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Breakthrough International Negotiation

Dick Cheney built an international coalition to support the Gulf War. In Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts, HBS associate professor and negotiation... View Details

Keywords: Michael Watkins; Susan Rosegrant; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2013
News

Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century

It's easy to think that the 2010 disaster at the BP drilling platform Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was the result of a chain of cascading events beyond the control of anyone to stop. But as the authors of Avoiding Corporate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; oil spill; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2019
News

Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup

Service with a Smile: Classmates Nick Alexander (left) and Bryan Frist with one of Yoshi’s service-on-demand vehicles. (photo by Cayce Clifford) The first purpose-built, drive-in gas station opened in Pittsburgh in December 1913. The gleaming View Details

Keywords: April White; startups; on-demand economy; entrepreneurship; Personal Services

26 Apr 2022
News

Leading on Climate Change

Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) welcomed Her Excellency Mariam Bint Mohammed Saeed Hareb Almheiri, the Minister of Climate Change and Environment for the United Arab Emirates, and Paul Polman,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2016
News

Inside Modern HR

many of them brought up the issue of talent when discussing big decisions. I found that fascinating, and as a management consultant I saw there could be a gulf between a strategy and the human dynamics involved in execution. I felt like I... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Harvard Business School

Committee. AASU supported the activities of the Pan–African Liberation Committee (PALC), organized by Harvard students, in demanding the University support the Angolan struggle for independence from Portugal by divesting its stock in Gulf... View Details

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2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Gulf using a combination of social psychology, public policy, and post-colonial feminist lenses. She has published in Organization Science , Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Contexts, and Idafat: Arab Journal of Sociology (in... View Details

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

From the problems posed by the Great Recession to the devastation in Haiti and the Gulf of Mexico, from the continuing economic growth of India and China to a cascade of entrepreneurial ventures, the year 2010 offered a wide assortment of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Oct 1998
News

A Long and Winding Road

and Suharto came and went. Vietnam vets were joined by their Gulf War counterparts in the struggle to put their lives back together after the trauma of armed combat. Noriega was captured. Castro wasn't. The effects of South Africa's... View Details

Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)

20 May 2019
Blog Post

Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics

fulfilling engineering duties on a blow-out prevention team, a role that had acquired considerably more significance after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “It’s a cool area,” Kenya says. “Deep water is like space – lots of... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Tyler Teykl (MBA 2017)

international projects in the Gulf States and Asia before working in Alaska for two years. I was liberated to be fully focused at work without the distraction of scoping or applying to graduate schools. Alaska Alaska Where are you... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Additional alumni books for your consideration.

by John T. Reed (MBA ’77) (John T. Reed Publishing) Gulf Capital and Islamic Finance: The Rise of the New Global Players by Aamir Rehman (MBA ’04) (McGraw-Hill) Doing Both: How Cisco Captures Today's Profit & Drives Tomorrow's Growth by... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

18 Aug 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courageous Leader Triggers a Moral Revolt of CEOs Against Trump

Nothing like this has happened in 50 years. Forty-three CEOs of major American corporations revolted against President Trump this week, which led to the shutdown of two presidential advisory councils. In so doing, these leaders may have created an unprecedented View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

05 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207059 Texas Gulf Sulphur: The Timmins Ontario Mine Harvard Business School Case 204-114 Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Oct 2010
What Do You Think?

Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?

hefty dose of transparency goes a long way to doing the right thing." What do you think? Original Article Early in the Gulf of Mexico oil-rig explosion and leak disaster, BP agreed to activate a camera fixed on the source of the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

21 May 2018
News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

Conference hosted by the HBS Club of the GCC (The Gulf Cooperation Council). His Excellency Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Cabinet Member and Minister of Tolerance, United Arab Emirates, gave opening remarks for the 6th annual... View Details