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...Of course, the new Asian corporations would not be exactly the same as the ‘Seven Sisters’....
...“I’m a terrible manager and I’m not a corporate guy, yet I’m the lead manager of a corporation, so we’ve organised the company to promote entrepreneurship,” he says....
...But another study by researchers at Princeton and Cornell Universities and the Rand Corporation reached the opposite conclusion: the boycott had no effect....
...Interestingly, that deal was a competitive response to BP’s landmark merger with Amoco....
...Mitchell, who had a degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M, worked for oil group Amoco for a year and a half before serving in the US Army Corps of Engineers....
...Have we headed back to the late 1990s, when BP led a charge abroad by UK companies with the purchase of Amoco in the US? Not yet....
...Born in Philadelphia, Ms Carroll trained as a geologist and spent the first part of her career looking for oil in the Rocky Mountains with Amoco, now part of BP....
...The short answer is that BP grew - most dramatically in the late 1990s when it took over Amoco and Arco, of the US - and diversified into new products such as liquefied natural gas....
...Ultimately, Browne’s legacy may depend on whether he can groom a successor capable of taking over this vast and sprawling corporation....
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