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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
petroleum geologist at Amoco. Later, she joined the Canadian company Alcan, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming CEO of its Primary Metal Group, a position she held until taking over at Anglo. Carroll and her husband, David,... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
infamously changed its name from British Petroleum to Beyond Petroleum in 2001 and recently announced plans to become an “integrated energy company” that also offers fuel from low-carbon sources. "If that... View Details
- 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
- Profile
Eric Sonnier
As a resident of Houston, Texas, it may have been inevitable that Eric Sonnier’s first business experience as a co-op student during his junior year in college was related to the oil and gas industry. At Caterpillar Global Petroleum... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Maiden Voyage
Hashmi. “This will be a UAE mission all the way.” The most visible aspect of the mission will be the launch—a first—from Dubai’s Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre. If Al Hashmi can pull it off, the mission will be a source of intense national pride for a country that is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni Are Integral to HBS
Belo-Osagie notes. His career has focused on the petroleum sector, finance, telecoms, and property development. For Belo-Osagie, the opportunity to work with a faculty member and engage with students was particularly meaningful. “At the... View Details
- Profile
Michael Son
responding to the right challenges; that maybe selling petroleum was not the right way to change things." Inspired by his father, who completed an HBS Executive Education program in 1981, and enthusiastic about a general management... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)
little brother. I went to Texas A&M, where I studied Engineering. I married my wife right out of college. I was working as a petroleum engineer and was making excellent money, which I think actually made the decision to get an MBA... View Details
- Blog
What's the Right Fit for You–An In-Person or Virtual Program?
sales & marketing and general management. Currently I am part of the Group CEO Office of the Petroleum & Chemicals Solution Group. This division focuses on securing stable supplies of energy and chemical materials for the world. The Group... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Silver Lining
Despite the grim headlines, Sanjay Bhatnagar (MBA ’93) knows there’s a silver lining in Enron’s dark corporate cloud. In 1997, while supervising the company’s energy operations in South Asia, Bhatnagar worked with Andrea Miller, a member of Enron’s international... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
shortages, we set up a special system called “Flagpole Reports.” (“Run it up the flagpole so everyone can see it.”) The first reports from Vietnam identified emerging shortages in aircraft flares, 40-mm ammunition, collapsible petroleum... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Memoirs of an International First Year Student
As an Indian national who was working in the Middle East in the petroleum industry, my decision to apply for an MBA was fueled (pun intended) by two reasons. One was the obvious need to get a business perspective after staying in the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
facility. Instead of building or acquiring a facility, as it might have done in the past, the company could establish "swap-type" contracts with perhaps multiple parties, in which it would deliver crude oil and receive in return a mix of refined View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 04 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
From Lone Star to Team Player
horizontally across boundaries, without always having to rely on centralized command and a big corporate staff to make sure that the firm is integrated. Q: You point to British Petroleum as an example of a large organization that was able... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
cautionary note: ". . . the elephant in the room is the assumption of the availability and cost of petroleum . . . the economics of globalization will change dramatically in the decades ahead." Will what is true for the world... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
if nothing else, has fostered a sense of entrepreneurship and opportunity in the renewable energy sectors." And Chip Levy suggests that "This is a great time to leap into a growth industry ...We developed the petroleum industry... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS
What's your story? Gana: I grew up in Cameroon, in a town called Douala. My grandfather made the importance of education and how it impacts your life front and center. I grew up with my parents working, my dad in the petroleum industry,... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
that the Chinese companies could buy oil in the highly fungible global marketplace. But Sinopec, the nation's largest refiner, was one of the three companies (together with PetroChina and CNOOC) engaged in the equity oil play. With China's energy demands... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Turley (PMD 43, 1982) The Brier Patch Petroleum engineering professor Tony Zanatelli signs a summer-job contract to manage the drilling of a 20,000-foot-deep exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico. Energy company MillPet owns the lease... View Details