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- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Contest. BioMine uses existing scaled-up mining industry technologies to capture value from the 40 million tons of "e-waste" that is landfilled or incinerated annually around the world. (Watch Bradoo explain the concept behind BioMine.)... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
and the 2010 explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia, which killed 39 people. At the time, the company was run by Don Blankenship, a hard-charging CEO who put profit ahead of safety. In the five years before the disaster,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Green Talk at HBS
Before an overflow audience in September, Scott Nyquist (MBA ’84) and Thomas Seitz of McKinsey gave a talk on the “The Future of Energy: How Geopolitics, Environmental, and Supply Risks Are Shaping the Industry.” Drawing on the consulting firm’s research on greenhouse... View Details
Langbourne M. Williams, Jr.
After launching a stockholder attack on the management of Freeport Sulphur in 1930, Williams found himself in the CEO position three years later. Under his direction, Freeport experienced a major turnaround in performance and became the premier supplier of sulphur in... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BRADOO: Mining old tech for gold by Constantine von Hoffman When most people's phones break, all they see is a problem. Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) sees an opportunity. Bradoo is the cofounder and CEO of BlueOak Resources, a company... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
supply contamination, etc.), as long as production takes place in a state or other legal jurisdiction with a history of sensible oil and gas production regulations and regulatory capacity in-place to enforce... View Details
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
Tell us about what you were doing before HBS and what brought you to HBS. Prior to HBS, I spent six years in the oil and gas industry working primarily on taking technologies in the energy space from the lab... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
Eacho, left, and Minnick (Getty Images) Congress is at a standstill over carbon. One side wants to regulate emissions as a pollutant; the other fears that any move to regulate oil and gas will impede growth... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
Joseph P. Routh
When Routh assumed the position of President in 1938, Pittston’s coal and oil production businesses were generating $26 million in revenues and losing approximately $1 million on the bottom-line. Through shrewd investments and tight... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
political stability. Liberia's economic strategy sees higher-level growth over the next five years coming from investments in mining, agriculture, and oil. That optimism may be warranted, according to Werker's analysis. "If multiple iron ore View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
full advantage of its growing product portfolio. Students debate the merits of going after new customers by building an enterprise sales force or mining the existing customer base with an inside sales force that already has a lot on its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
companies like International Harvester and US Steel. But over time, automation steadily reduced the number of workers required to extract the mineral, while competition from natural gas and cheap, low-sulfur coal from out west did the... 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
- Profile
Ben Faw
deep personal interest of mine to wean ourselves from oil. When you have friends and colleagues who have given their lives in conflicts related to oil interests, you’re motivated to find ways to reduce View Details
- Web
Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Collections Site Credits Photograph Albums Tipple and Washer, Central Iron and Coal Company. Alabama Mining Institute, Birmingham, Alabama Mss: 351 1922-1923 A316 2 albums, 153 photographs These photographic albums were created at the... View Details
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Vivian Scalfi
market research stint and five years with General Electric, where she progressed through the commercial leadership rotational program in health care, oil and gas, and power, Vivian shifted into consumer goods with a role at Diageo... View Details
Keywords: CPG