Publications

January 1995
Case

Controlling International Oil (B): The Rise and Fall of OPEC

By: Debora L. Spar and Richard H.K. Vietor

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry

March 1998
Teaching Note

Shell Brasil S.A.: Performance Evaluation in the Oil Products Division TN

By: Kenneth A. Merchant and Krishna G. Palepu

Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Energy Industry

March 2002 (Revised June 2002)
Teaching Note

Saudi Arabia: Getting the House in Order/World Oil Markets, TN

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Teaching Note for (9-702-031) and (9-702-030). View Details

Keywords: Saudi Arabia

2010
Article

An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms

By: Robin J. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson

This case study of two offshore oil platforms illustrates how an organizational initiative designed to enhance safety and effectiveness created a culture that unintentionally released men from societal imperatives for "manly" behavior, prompting them to let go of... View Details

Keywords: Safety; Goals and Objectives; Behavior; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Gender; Emotions

March 2005
Supplement

Ocean & Oil Holdings and the Leveraged Buyout of Agip Nigeria (C)

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Aug 2016
Conference Presentation

Moving Clusters: Rubber and Palm Oil in Post WWII Southeast Asia

By: Valeria Giacomin

April 1996
Case

Controlling International Oil (B): The Rise and Fall of OPEC (Abridged)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Debora L. Spar

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry

February 2008 (Revised June 2010)
Case

Filling the Empty Quarter: Saudi Aramco and the World Oil Market

By: Noel Maurer

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Saudi Arabia

February 2017 (Revised June 2017)
Case

ExxonMobil: Business as Usual? (A)

By: George Serafeim, Shiva Rajgopal and David Freiberg

Climate change was becoming an important societal and business issue as more governments were introducing climate change related regulations and investors became increasibly worried about stranded assets within oil and gas firms. In September 2016, the U.S. Securities... View Details

Keywords: Oil ＆ Gas; Oil Prices; Oil Companies; Asset Impairment; Predictive Analytics; Sustainability; Environmental Impact; Innovation; Disclosure; Accounting; Valuation; Climate Change; Renewable Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Reporting; Energy Industry

April 2011
Teaching Note

Filling the Empty Quarter: Saudi Aramco and the World Oil Market (TN)

By: Noel Maurer

Teaching Note for 708048. View Details

Keywords: Saudi Arabia

April 2006 (Revised March 2010)
Teaching Note

BP and the Consolidation of the Oil Industry, 1998-2002; and Supplement (TN)

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and David J Hanson

Keywords: Energy Industry

March 2019 (Revised March 2019)
Teaching Note

Populism in Bolivia: From Goni's Neoliberal Shock to Evo's Oil Contract Renegotiations

By: Rafael Di Tella, Vincent Pons and Nathaniel Schwalb

Teaching Note for HBS No. 719-001. View Details

March 2005
Supplement

Ocean & Oil Holdings and the Leveraged Buyout of Agip Nigeria (B)

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

February 2019 (Revised March 2019)
Case

Populism in Bolivia: From Goni's Neoliberal Shock to Evo's Oil Contract Renegotiations

By: Vincent Pons, Rafael Di Tella and Annelena Lobb

May 2014
Talk

The Battle of the Oils: Competition in the Global Vegetable Oil Markets

By: Valeria Giacomin

Fall 2013
Article

In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms

By: Mariana Pargendler, Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini

A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of agency and political problems. Less theory and evidence, however, have been generated about the reasons why state-owned enterprises listed in stock markets... View Details

Keywords: State-owned Enterprises; Oil Companies; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Energy Industry; Brazil; Mexico; Norway

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December 2012 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Pemex (A): In a Free Fall?

By: Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio

Keywords: Turnarounds; Oil Prices; State-owned Enterprises; Oil Companies; National Oil Companies; Energy; Privatization; State Ownership; Corporate Governance; Energy Industry; Mexico; North America

September 1983
Case

National Dairy Development Board Oilseeds and Vegetable Oil Wing: Restructuring India's Oilseed Industry

By: Ray A. Goldberg

January 2015
Case

Chevron Under Fire

By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and Christine Snively

Oil giant, Chevron, faced numerous challenges on environmental, social and governance (ESG) grounds in the first decade of the 21st century, including some major lawsuits and actions by NGOs. The case describes those challenges and raises questions about what is the... View Details

Keywords: Carbon Tax; Oil And Gas; Environment; Drilling; Governance; Business or Company Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Sources; Mining Industry; Energy Industry