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- 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, there are 1,400 historical photos... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
for Shell Oil until enrolling at HBS to broaden his skills and career options. “For me,” he says, “HBS was a step toward rebuilding the respect our family had enjoyed in Poland before the devastation of the war.” Makowski’s business... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Chalsty Fellowship Will Help Black South Africans Attend HBS
1969 as an oil analyst. He was named director of research in 1971 and became head of the firm's investment banking division in 1979. Appointed chairman of DLJ 's capital markets group in 1984, Chalsty became president and CEO in 1986 and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
"...But the good news is your old Enron stock has become a high-priced collectible." © 2008 www.cartoonstock.com Nearly seven years after its collapse, Enron continues to fascinate those interested in corporate leadership and governance. The latest chapter of the Enron... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A champion for First Nations
Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, Favel led the development of two national firsts for Canada: the First Nations Bank of Canada and the Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority. In addition to serving as chancellor of the university, he is executive chairman of... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
increased its water efficiency by 21.4 percent between 2004 and 2012, recently announced a new initiative to increase that efficiency by another 25 percent. Or look at another example: extracting shale gas ("fracking"). It costs from 50 cents to $4 to treat a barrel of... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
production to feed the rapidly growing world population, expected to reach 9 billion in the next three decades. So in 2013, at the age of 41, Tiller retired from hedge-fund management to establish Sustainable America, an ambitious nonprofit with the dual aims of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Power of Cultural Understanding
Majid Jafar (MBA 2004) Majid Jafar (MBA 2004) sees the global influence of HBS as a key to creating change in the world, a view that is informed by his experiences growing up in the United Arab Emirates, his time at HBS, and his current position as CEO of Crescent... View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
HBS’s Oldest Class Secretary
percent from the petroleum industry. Charlie was among the last group, for he was manager of Standard Oil’s Everett, Massachusetts, refinery when he attended HBS. He worked a total of 36 years for affiliates of Standard Oil and the last... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Iron Lady
Development Bank, Oteh is now the director-general of Nigeria’s SEC and the country’s chief financial regulator. At a conference in London in September, Oteh revealed her intention to strengthen the country’s capital markets in order to reduce an overreliance on View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
the leap to public service, running for New Mexico’s Third Congressional District seat in 2008. “We were winning until 9:30 at night,” he says wryly. Following that defeat, he started working with microbiologists on formulating a way in which to clean up water,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
Cobras. The Cobras were working from a position to the southwest of where Major Gurfein was directing the breaching effort. This breach site was directly in front of the Iraqi town of Safwan, key to I MEF’s rapid advance into Iraq, and the key View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
Digital Initiative to facilitate online and offline conversations around classroom topics. Responses ranged from oil companies to ice-cream makers and almost everything in between. We’ve excerpted a few of them here. Shake Shack Data... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
Playing by the Rules, Ethics at Work, a new series of video case studies of business ethics, aims to teach people that there’s a direct link between morality and the bottom line. Joe Badaracco, the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics at HBS, consulted on the series,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
suppliers for the project, ensued. One participant reported that Shearer “personally took them on and ran rings around them.” “The big oil companies are used to dealing with smaller players by keeping them in their place,” Shearer... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
teachings of Muhammad prohibit Muslims from accepting or charging interest. As oil prices and the individual incomes of many Muslims in the Middle East skyrocketed in the 1970s, so too did the need for financial instruments that allowed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Chili recipes
canned or homemade chicken broth 4 pounds beef chuck, trimmed of excess gristle and fat, cut into 2-inch chunks Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 large onion, finely diced 4 medium cloves garlic,... View Details