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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
measurement of liquids in the petroleum industry, it contains 42 U.S. standard gallons. Abbreviated to "bbl." Christmas Tree: A multivalve device that channels fluid flows from a well into a pipeline. Duster: A dry well. Elephant: A "real...
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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...
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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...
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- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
Ask most people to name a city with a lot of parks and chances are Houston won’t be the first one they name. “For better or worse, our built environment is known for the lack of zoning,” says Daniel M. Gilbane (MBA 2005), senior vice president of Gilbane Building Co....
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- 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...
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by Mallory Stark
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
evident, once again, last summer. The country was mired in the fifth year of a costly, bloody war in the Middle East, a conflict many believed was driven in part by a desire to secure access to Iraq’s petroleum reserves. “Black gold”...
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- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
nation has contributed importantly to the success. His challenge is to allocate resources among new areas to explore for petroleum and new sources of energy and to develop managers with the capability of leading those businesses in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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...
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by James Heskett
- 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...
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- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
CDB's financing of a major project between Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), Brazil's state-owned oil and gas producer, and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), one of China's largest oil companies. Signed two years...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
III (AMP 45, 1967) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Reflecting on his 63 years as a geophysicist in the global petroleum industry, Dallas oilman Al Hrubetz traces his journey from the collapse of coal to the emergence of oil...
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- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
they should sell the plant, or whether they should continue current operations. MME must consider ongoing regulatory changes that impacted the industry, the possible impact of imported ethanol, the power of the petroleum industry that...
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- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
Petroleum Co. PLC, and Enel SpA, which made business investments in Russia, are also discussed. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2010/01/the-globe-the-promise-and-peril-of-russias-resurgent-state/ar/1 Do Private Equity-owned Firms Have...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
the late nineteenth century, and its evolving forms as governments intervened in markets after 1945. Rich joined Philipp Brothers, then the largest commodity trader, in 1954. He formed his own firm two decades later. He was instrumental in the creation of a spot market...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and...
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- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
of the largest users of petroleum products.” Robert Tichio (MBA 2005) Principal, Riverstone/Carlyle “I’m partner and managing director at Riverstone Holdings, one of the world’s largest private equity firms focused on the energy sector....
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- 25 Apr 2024
- News
Origin Stories
American Petroleum Institute. At Harvard and Harvard Business School, Hess learned the language of business and the languages of the countries where Hess did business, including Spanish, Arabic, and Farsi. “I had no idea at the time that...
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- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
Industries - 2006 (TN) Harvard Business School Note 207-097 No abstract available. The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (D) Harvard Business School Supplement 207-087 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
Rocket Internet. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-027 Mexico's Energy Reform Energy—both petroleum and electricity—had been terribly managed for decades in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide that are released into the atmosphere when coal and petroleum products are burned. That same day, the Wall Street Journal reported that in California and Arizona, General Motors would this year...
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