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February 1979 (Revised September 1980)
Case

Gulf Oil Corp. and the United States Government (A)

By: J. Ronald Fox and Allan Grey

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry

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March 2019
Article

Is There a Future for the Gas Network in a Low Carbon Energy System?

By: Conor Hickey, Paul Deane, Celine McInerney and Brian O' Gallachoir

This paper evaluates the potential low carbon opportunities for and challenges to the utilisation and financial performance of Ireland's gas distribution network within a series of low carbon scenarios. There has been a limited amount of academic literature published... View Details

Keywords: Decarbonization; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Environmental Sustainability; Demand and Consumers; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Republic of Ireland

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03 Mar 2016
News

Harvard economist throws support behind natural gas

March 2020
Teaching Plan

C16 Biosciences: Lab-Grown Palm Oil

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Olivia Hull and Mel Martin

Teaching Plan for HBS No. 820-008. View Details

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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

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23 Jan 2015
News

Selling Donkey Milk and Horse Oil to the American Woman

Keywords: Retail Trade

14 Jul 2020
News

Is renewable natural gas a serious alternative to ‘electrify everything’?

01 Sep 2005
News

Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock

declines in almost any of the producing basins around the world. How will this shortage affect the U.S. and world economy? The price of oil and View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing

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

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19 Nov 2014
News

Creating solutions for the oil industry

Retired high-tech entrepreneur Thomas Scambos (MBA 1954) started a company that developed additives to make oil flow more efficiently and also help deal with oil spills.... View Details

January 2001 (Revised May 2010)
Case

BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane

British Petroleum and Amoco were the two largest members of the Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium (AIOC), an 11-firm consortium that was spending $10 billion to develop oil fields in the Caspian Sea. As of March 1999, AIOC had completed a $1.9 billion development... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Policy; Capital Budgeting; Project Finance; Emerging Markets; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Mining Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom; Europe

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April 2021 (Revised December 2021)
Case

The Carlyle Group: Carving Out Atotech

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

On January 31, 2017, The Carlyle Group ("Carlyle") closed its $3.2 billion acquisition of Atotech, an international Specialty Chemicals and Equipment company. In Carlyle's Washington, DC headquarters, the US-based deal team—Martin Sumner, Greg Nikodem, Tanaka Maswoswe... View Details

Keywords: Oil ＆ Gas; Deal; International Acquisition; International; Acquisition; Negotiation Deal; Transformation; Chemicals; Chemical Industry; United States; Europe; Asia; Germany

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September 1992 (Revised September 1992)
Teaching Note

Conoco's "Green" Oil Strategy (A) TN

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Susan E.A. Hall

Teaching Note for (9-392-133). View Details

Keywords: Ecuador

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March 1998 (Revised June 1998)
Case

Coming to Grips with Deregulation: Bay State Gas

In 1995, CEO Roger Young made a surprising decision to bring in Joel Singer, an outsider with an MBA, to lead Bay State through the upcoming turmoil of deregulation. Singer was convinced that in this situation where the boundaries of the industry were being defined,... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Corporate Strategy; Emerging Markets; Energy Industry; Massachusetts

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November 2008
Case

The Hong Kong & China Gas Company Ltd.: Negotiating Joint Ventures in China

By: James K. Sebenius, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Medha Samant

To deliver 5-6 major new Chinese joint ventures annually, Hong Kong China Gas executives began extracting cross-border negotiating lessons from their 80 existing Chinese JVs. Chairman Alfred Chan and CEO Peter Wong knew that HKGC's growth strategy required significant... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation Tactics; Interests; Cooperation; Expansion; Utilities Industry; Hong Kong

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