focus on finding energy sources to meet the needs of people everywhere. BP, like its many competitors, operates within the bounds of the four functions of management; planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Management within the BP also has to deal with different business landscapes to make sure their company stays competitive. These landscapes would be globalization, technology, innovation, diversity, and ethics. BP has internal factors that can be corrected within these categories that
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Management : Controlling When all is said and done, which may not be for many years, it’s likely to be one of the worst environmental disasters, if not the worst, in U.S. history. When British Petroleum’s (BP) Deepwater Horizon off-shore rig-yung machine sa planta nagkukuha ng oil sa sea in the Gulf of Mexico exploded in a ball of flames on April 20, 2010, killing 11 employees, it set in motion frantic efforts to stop the flow of oil and to initiate the long and arduous cleanup process. Although
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BP and accident waiting to happen: * Alwin Landry, the 41-year-old Cajun captain of the Damon B. Bankston. Oil transport ship. Using a big hose to load crude oil, uses a crane to move the hose. * Big fire at the oil rig. * Curt Kuchta, the 34-year-old captain of the Horizon. Other ship at the incident. * Anthony Gervasio, the Bankston’s engineer, was in the engine room when he heard what sounded like a “blown tire, times 100,” * Second larger explosion. * Captain Landry
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Ethics Case Analysis BP BP Struggles to Resolve Sustainability Disaster Case Summary: The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010 is the worst oil spill in US history. Initial claims on the scope of the spill, as released by BP, was that 5,000 barrels per day were being released into the water, although they stated they had no way of precisely measuring the spill. Outside analysts have stated that between 54,000 and 84,000 barrels per day were leaking into the area. This estimate
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Prepared for: Mr. Jubred A. Peñano BP Course no: BE F06 International Training Program, Banking Academy Prepared by: Dương Thị Mỹ Hạnh – Class F06B Registration No: ITP F06-039 No of word: Submission Date: 7th November 2013 Executive summary In recent year, the world economic is being stressful; all of economy activities are difficult. A lot of big and small companies fall into bankruptcy. Therefore, in order to maintain and develop the business, companies need to have
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BP (British Petroleum) is 1 of the biggest energy companies in the world, there are almost 100000 employees in this company. BP offers to its consumers petrochemical products for daily use items, energy for light and heat, fuel for transports with retail services. From 1966 Lord Browne was the CEO of the company for many years. He focused on two areas : one is green energy and second is knowledge management. In my research I focused on BP when Lord Bowne was CEO. BP was first adopter of Knowledge
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1 Oil’s Troubled Water British Petroleum (BP) is one of the biggest oil and gas industry in the world. They owned 21,000 services stations worldwide and their brand is most trusted in the world. Then an incident occur in 2012, where BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig has exploded that causes 11 deaths and oil slick at the Gulf of Mexico. BP is being fined billion of dollar by the US government and need to compensate the others that affected by it. 1.1 Political Factors Most of the oil reserved in the
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BP and The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Jose Roberto Dominguez Dr. Ken Rossi MGMT 6000 A (CRN: 1535) September 20, 2015 Table of Contents Case Introduction and Background 3 BP or Industry Failure 4 Most Significant Flawed Decisions 5 Did BP lack the appropriate safety culture? 8 References 12 BP and The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Case Introduction and Background This particular case study created an abundance of unanswered questions for me to consider and made me realize how poorly
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that were customers of other Nectar partners, retain current customers, and up-sell customers higher margin products through incentives from the program. * The rewards program increased the competition for selling gas between Sainsbury’s and BP, but at the same time helped both companies take market share from retailers that did not offer Nectar points. * Conversely, though the majority of point were earned at Sansbury’s, there was a steady decrease in its importance throughout the year
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Discuss BP Connects revenue stream prior to and after the introduction of BP Connect BP Connects primary revenue source was gas and car wash. However, in 2001 BP Connects convenient store was opened featuring the trademark ,"Wild Bean Café," the BP Connects sport a sleek design and suntiles on the top of the gas station. In addition, the BP Connects are also known for having a kiosk offering internet connection. With the edition of the BP connect Stores, BP connects primary resource of profit
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