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- 25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Desert Dust-Up
claims. “We are,” he declared, “living with an energy illusion of the highest order.” Simmons, who is writing a book on the subject and has spent the last two years researching Saudi technical data, has also called for more transparency from the View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
HBS’s Oldest Class Secretary
percent from the petroleum industry. Charlie was among the last group, for he was manager of Standard Oil’s Everett, Massachusetts, refinery when he attended HBS. He worked a total of 36 years for affiliates of Standard Oil and the last... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Hail to the Chief
Not along ago, consultant Alison Sander (MBA ’86/JD ’87) was invited to evaluate the potential for sustainable investment opportunities in Ecuador’s rain forests, where petroleum reserves were being parceled out to international energy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
papers catalogued by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the book refutes optimistic projections by the Saudis and offers the public the first detailed examination of that country’s largest oil fields. He knows the business well, as the... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- News
Sustainability Is Good Business
on the payroll, the Nature Conservancy isn’t shy about offering its science-based expertise to help corporations soften their environmental footprints. Dow Chemical and British Petroleum are among its corporate partners. Tercek’s bottom... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
India’s Oil
India’s finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram (MBA ’68), is presiding over an economy, Asia’s third largest, that’s chugging along nicely and projected to finish with a 7 percent growth rate this year. But as Chidambaram told Reuters News (September 15, 2005), he’s... 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
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
oil-rich state, for example, the financial impact (positive or negative) of a bill affecting the state's petroleum producers and related companies could be inferred by following the votes of the state's lawmakers. The politicians, after... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
fuels, all those petroleum products will be replaced with bio-based alternatives. And Macro Oceans, the startup Perkins founded three years ago, is positioning seaweed to be the ideal successor. Early in his journey, as he started to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa
effective team. Carrie is an esteemed educator and one of the world’s leading professors of African history, and I’m an alumnus who has been working in business in Africa across a number of industries as well as in the Nigerian government,” Belo-Osagie notes. His... View Details
- 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
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
Maybe there’s nothing to those predictions that the end of oil is near, or the allegations, such as those by oil-industry veteran Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67), that Saudi petroleum reserves are way less than what is believed. But something’s... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 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
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
we transport petroleum products and dry bulk commodities all over the world. This year, Lloyd's gave us an award as best ship operator in the Middle East and on the Indian subcontinent. "I am proud to say that HBS had a tremendous... 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 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 Feb 1997
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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
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
All these competing forces lead some experts to believe that water will replace petroleum as the 21st century’s core commodity, with nations rich in water enjoying enormous social and economic advantages over those that are not. In an age... View Details