Oil Prices - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 30

http://hbr.org/search/613083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-027 Société Internationale de Plantations et de Finance (SIPEF) Management of a company with extensive palm oil tree plantations questions the usefulness to management... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

pots and pans and numerous other items, became chairman of Alcoa. Edward Prizer, who became president of Vacuum Oil in 1918, made his reputation by organizing the firm's domestic and foreign sales operations. Clarence Mott Woolley,... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

01 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

stability's sake. "They remain fragmented due to Italian tradition," he says. "Most of these families have been producing cheese for centuries and take pride in what they do, resisting becoming part of larger corporations." And there are other... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage

05 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 5

supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/911411-PDF-ENG CNOOC: Building a World-class Energy Company Joseph L. Bower, Nancy Hua Dai, and Michael Shih-ta ChenHarvard Business School Case 311-074 Fu Chengyu is the fifth CEO to lead China National Offshore View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

oil industry. I came full circle with both of those cases, having spent my career in the oil industry and as CEO of a company involved in the Macondo well disaster in 2010. Going through the Macondo crisis... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

perfectly—he got heatstroke, they missed a tour of the Vatican, and it rained for two days straight—the couple fought so much over whether the trip was worth the high price tag that the husband threatened to take the next flight home. But... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

oil and ecotourism Giacomin draws on two very different cases to analyze that phenomenon, first examining the evolution of the rubber and palm oil plantation clusters in Southeast Asia from 1900 to 1970 and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

from the US the ‘largest home market’ advantage, allowing them to subsidize pricing globally. I guarantee that Tencent, Alibaba and others will fill the gap left by a misguided break up.” David de Weese added, “It is not at all clear that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

01 Oct 1999
News

Banking on Success

exponentially since we were at HBS. I marvel at how quickly things have changed. When I started in this business, if a client wanted price and volume information, someone had to literally go to the library to consult the books put out by... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

Web

Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Breakup of Standard Oil and American Tobacco Clayton Antitrust Act Federal Reserve Act First Federal-Aid Highway Act Federal Trade Commission established Personal income tax reinstituted Influence: Low 20 1920 s 19 U.S. Steel and Alcoa... View Details

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

and chips chain, figuring that if I could grow earnings of 50 percent compounded with a donut shop chain, just imagine what I could do with several other franchise businesses. Bad idea. It did not work and earnings stagnated. Stock price... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

after it was reconfigured following a merger, Barford then took up the reins of Valleydene Corporation Limited, a family-run holding company that has a majority interest in GSW and also oversees warehouse facilities, oil and gas... 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

01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

in the oil patch during that boom—that’s how I put myself through college. But once the price of oil dropped in 1982 and 1983, then that boom went bust because it was no longer... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction

01 Dec 2008
News

Back to the Future

aired (to an extent often absent even in today’s energy conversation). Energy Future also has this pertinent warning: “A large, sudden increase in oil prices would have serious indirect effects. It would... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction

19 Jun 2014
News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction

01 Feb 2001
News

Drilling Down

headlines and rack up revenues in the billions, a number of smaller U.S. companies — some publicly traded, others privately owned — refuse to be overshadowed. However modest their comparative size, their market share still reaches into the billions of dollars. And with... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction; Oil and Gas Extraction

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

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

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