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- 29 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
My HBS Student Loan Story: John Cortines (MBA 2015)
loans. Did you have any anxiety or stress related to debt or how you would pay for HBS? If yes, how did you manage those feelings? I had confidence in my post-MBA earning potential. So for me, any anxiety was probably around deciding to switch from View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
page turner in terms of how we were going to escape the claws of this hostile predator who in fact, had bought Lincoln Savings in New York and Union Oil in Canada. And within a year or two from the time that we were successful in terms of...
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- 01 May 2013
- News
Isik Kececi Asur, MBA 1997
country and culture,” Asur says. In addition to Mustafa’s diversified family oil business, the Asurs are partners in Istanbul-based Aragon Capital, a firm they launched five years ago that manages a variety of investments including...
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- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women Leaders and Organizational Change
successes so that people can learn from them. Q: What are you working on now? A: We are currently doing research on offshore oil production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. These are fascinating to us because they are the quintessential...
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by Mallory Stark
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
of Mexico shrimp fisherman who stayed in business with low-interest economic injury loans after the BP oil spill, to a Pennsylvania drill bit manufacturer whose SBA-financed technology was instrumental in rescuing the trapped Chilean...
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- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
types of products for which customers are more quantity-conscious than others? What products won't this work for? A: There are certainly categories where a change in package size is more noticeable. These would include any category where a certain quantity of something...
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by Manda Salls
- 07 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club
to be fully out and queer, but letting go of that fear has been a process. After college I worked conservative industries, like oil & gas and logistics, and I struggled with balancing authenticity and personal safety. I was not out at...
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- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
was interested in the oil and gas industry, and was drawn to engineering because of the challenge. “I always want to push myself,” she said, “and I saw engineering as an opportunity to stretch myself and take me out of my comfort...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
from used vegetable oil and sugars. The polymer can be used to replace plastic, is fully home compostable, and doesn’t create microplastics when it breaks down. Goodwin is proud of OceanCycle’s contribution but knows the issue is too big...
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Electricity - Business & Environment
in the future.” Nathan Nemon HBS MBA 2020 “Electricity Generation Sector Summary,” Project Drawdown, 2019, accessed October 7, 2019. Emily Sullivan, “Nearly A Year After Maria, Puerto Rico Officials Claim Power Is Totally Restored,” NPR, August 15, 2018. “Paths to...
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- 02 Mar 2012
- HBS Seminar
Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
of it doesn’t,” Beer says, citing the example of an oil company that built a $20 million safety training facility but still suffered several fatal accidents nonetheless. “Part of it is a fad. Everybody’s doing training. Everybody’s got...
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- 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...
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- 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
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
time, and the timeline for decisions. Employees understand that events are continually unfolding and will accept changes if the evidence and reasoning are clear. Boilerplate rhetoric will likely disengage them. INSEAD’s Jennifer Petriglieri studied BP’s handling of its...
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Polaroid | Harvard Business School: Invention of the Polarizer
Collections Bibliography SITE CREDITS VISITING THE EXHIBIT 15. Edwin H. Land, "Research by the Business Itself," a paper contributed by Edwin H. Land, President, Polaroid Corporation, on the general subject of "The Future of Industrial Research" at the Standard View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
appearance on the dinner table only on major holidays, if then. Over Thanksgiving, as my mother and I poured a candle and marveled at how wicks turn wax into flame, my dad nostalgically reminisced on using rags to draw oil in kerosene...
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- 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 discussing the "7 Lessons" and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
Scorecard, Rockwater managers took the somewhat unusual step of actually going out to talk to its existing and potential customers, the large integrated oil and gas companies. Rockwater learned that most of its customers did choose the...
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
Industry: Oil & Gas / Reservoir Engineer Proudest Accomplishment: Starting at HBS the same week my daughter started Kindergarten Summer Internship: Biotech - FORMA Therapeutics How do you do it? Three things keep me sane: time...
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