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  • 13 Jul 2016
  • News

From Money to Ministry

Admiral Norvell Ward, who commanded a fleet of 52 supply ships deployed in the Gulf of Tonkin, supporting US troops in Vietnam. It was there that he observed a tragedy that only added to a series of hints at what would become his later... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 16 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 16

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111062-PDF-ENG Accounting for Catastrophes: BP PLC and Union Carbide Corporation (B) David F. Hawkins and Aldo SesiaHarvard Business School Supplement 111-074 The BP Mexican gulf oil spill... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire

plane smashes into the ship. Come in too high, and its tailhook misses the arresting wires needed to bring the aircraft to a screeching halt. Baldwin, who counts a Navy Commendation Medal for heroic achievement among his many honors, recalls his experiences in the... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
  • 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
  • 06 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

American trade deficit and the price of oil at more than $130 per barrel (at press time) have created an inevitable pool of financial liquidity among oil exporters in the Arabian Gulf. But this era of petrodollar surpluses is markedly different from the last one. In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

through most commercial disputes. Present-day Russia has practically no functioning judiciary. Many countries' legal systems are corrupt or controlled by local political powers. The fact is, there can be a great gulf between the laws on... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 12 Mar 2019
  • Blog Post

What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program

non-western participants are committing significant resources to winning in those markets.  The gulf between sophisticated African consumer preferences for products and services and resource and capacity constraints in many African... View Details
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IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification - Course Catalog

which lessons from their RC courses can either transfer over to the Gulf context, or need to be adapted. Professor Khanna’s work on Contextual Intelligence will be a central part of these discussions. While students’ learning during the... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

Economy, "Recognizing that people who need to cooperate are often separated by a gulf of potential divergent interests and potential mistrust, the best one can do is try to identify and promote a set of values to which most of the... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
  • 04 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

or sell. Payatas and the orderly, verdant Harvard Business School campus—nearly equals, as it happens, in terms of the acreage they occupy—are separated by a gulf far greater than any measure of miles or statistics. Yet as HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 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 gas drilling in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

BP oil spill,” the 2010 disaster that devastated the environment and businesses along the Gulf Coast, including in the small town south of New Orleans where he grew up. Bagala watched his father’s business falter and then fail in the... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 15 Nov 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

valuations and growth options. A key to meeting growth potential is eliminating the gulf between big-picture strategy and day-to-day field execution. It's often the most difficult part of implementation because you're dealing with a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Ink: Framing the Full Picture

Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal that, at the sight of land,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace

instead identify what is actually required to do a job well, you can create organizations that are better at learning, where people from different backgrounds, with dissimilar approaches to problem solving, can have a strong impact on effectiveness. Whether you work on... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

very difficult to say that this situation would have parallels to the Gulf War or any other war we've experienced. Take oil prices, for example. One might assume that oil prices will rise if we attack Iraq, but oil prices have already... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 12 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

someone across the negotiation table might respond to a particular proposal becomes easier.” That’s good news in a society that often seems to be grappling with intractable partisanship on every issue. While some issues may still present a View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 26 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom on proper sequencing: "Get your own house in order first." Yet this was not the path that President George H. W. Bush followed in preparing for the first Gulf War. Instead of approaching... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius