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- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
after Lehman Brothers’ collapse ushered in the Global Financial Crisis. Lyondell was the world’s third-largest diversified chemicals company, with $55 billion in annual revenues and operations in 25 countries. Hit by a one-two punch of falling View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
through the financial crisis, and Exxon has done the same in the precipitous drop in oil prices from $147 to $33 per barrel. I have spent a lot of time recently with leadership groups and the media... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics The Performance of Corporate Alliances: Evidence from Oil and Gas Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico By: Beshears, John Abstract—I use data on oil and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
to ethylene and then into various specialty chemicals. The entire project depends on low gas prices engendered by the shale revolution and relatively high oil prices. The risks are copious, as is the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
importance. The paper explores how this heuristic can produce erroneous inferences and influence broader beliefs about decision-makers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54771 forthcoming RAND Journal of Economics The View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
There's a trade-off, however, as it can open the door to minority investors taking a hit, say as when a government-owned company holds down the price of gasoline in order to benefit voters, but depresses profits for the shareholders of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
serves as a rationale for global brands to charge premiums. Global brands "are expensive, but the price is reasonable when you think of the quality," pointed out a Thai participant. Consumers also believe that transnational... View Details
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
thousands of public documents from the Department of the Interior that detailed bid price and profits from 1954 to 1975. He reported his findings in a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics last year, The Performance of... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
another influential factor in the development of the wind turbine business following the oil shocks of the 1970s. Suddenly faced with the end of the cheap oil era, the United States, Denmark, and Germany... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
extreme politicking from the legacy energy, transportation, farming, and environmental lobbies. "It's time for politicians, regulators, and voters to give markets—and the price signals that they send to producers, consumers, and... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
explicit limit on carbon emissions from oil sands and a price on carbon. Suncor, which produces more than 400,000 barrels per day of bitumen and synthetic oil must reduce its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
drilling industry slumps in 2009. Lower oil prices lead oil companies to reduce drilling budgets, and rig utilization falls from essentially 100% to 70% in some markets. Day... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
management of financial communication? Greg Miller: The French group Total and the British BP are both major players in the oil and gas industry, which is increasingly moving into the center of public interest due to its booming View Details
- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
demanding market for almost everything from oil to microprocessors to premium coffee. Companies around the world aspire to do business in the U.S., or at least with U.S. companies in their home markets. By doing so, they learn much about... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
food they consumed to the jobs they took. Environmental quality does behave like a luxury good.— Forest L. Reinhardt All that has changed, partly due to alarming disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 and the 1984 Union... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to monitor and enforce Resale Price Maintenance (RPM) contracts, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
(revenue maximizing) auction for sponsored search advertising. We show that a search engine's optimal reserve price is independent of the number of bidders and independent of the rate at which click-through rate declines over positions.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace