Petroleum and Natural Gas - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?

Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details

Keywords: by Tim Gray

07 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

What Environmental Ratings Miss

Keywords: by Auden Schendler & Michael Toffel

18 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details

Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology

07 Jul 2008
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Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

officer Ken Lay made him president of Enron's new trading operations. In 2001, Skilling was named CEO. Before 1997, Enron was an innovative and profitable player in the newly deregulated natural View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

21 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Market Interest in Nonfinancial Information

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus & George Serafeim

Nitin Nohria

Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

As Dean, building on... View Details

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Business & Environment

Experience As an MBA student at HBS, you will prepare yourself for leadership in a rapidly changing world in which natural resources are increasingly scarce and the threat of climate change ever more urgent.... View Details

Peter Tufano

Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

Rosabeth M. Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

27 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

Associate Professor Laura Huang, who studies early entrepreneurship, where failure is common. “You can take two people who work equally hard, and one person will naturally have an advantage View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

importance of developing understanding of the marginal abatement cost functions for methane emissions reductions. Scholars have employed a diverse set of methodologies to estimate abatement costs, including engineering cost models, econometric analysis of View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

climaterising.org The Health Risks of Natural Gas Stoves 03 JAN 2024 | Climate Rising This bonus episode of Climate Rising features an episode from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health's podcast "Better... View Details

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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

of nitrogen-based fertilizers and clearing of forests for agricultural uses, have also increased greenhouse gas emissions. Food and agriculture is the second largest... View Details

19 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

Nations Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board to China, for use of Arcadia's rice varieties, since they enabled farmers to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use, in turn lowering greenhouse gas emissions. But the company's proprietary... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

occurred early in 1995 that revealed the commitment of the executive leadership team both to the new strategy and to the Balanced Scorecard. The winter (first quarter) of 1995 was unusually warm in North America. Sales of home heating oil... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

Global Sustainability Personal at Bühler The global food supply chain is a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental challenges. Many companies avoid these issues or make token... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

06 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 6

approach found only in Gulati, Mayo, and Nohria's Management. This unique text demonstrates how success within a constantly changing business environment requires a clear understanding of the interactive and... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

natural gas markets, and statistical retrospective analysis of state-level regulation. We critically summarize these approaches and synthesize... View Details

06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015

for understanding the multinational firm as a set of relationships. I then apply one key element of that approach—the relationships among firms as a direct source of geopolitical outcomes—to the natural gas... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

the conditions to thrive tomorrow. We argue that organizational sustainability depends on attending to strategic paradox, engaging contradictory yet interrelated strategies simultaneously. Drawing on our research and the work of others,... View Details

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