Research Catalog

Title

Run to failure : BP and the making of the Deepwater Horizon disaster / Abrahm Lustgarten.

Author

Lustgarten, Abrahm.

Publication

New York : W. W. Norton, c2012.

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Description

xvi, 384 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports.; 24 cm.

Summary

Discusses how the CEO of British Petroleum, John Browne, helmed one of the greatest corporate comebacks in history only to have it fall apart due to deadly accidents and environmental crimes, culminating in the Deepwater Horizon disaster--

Subject

• British Petroleum Company
• Oil spills > Environmental aspects > United States
• Petroleum industry and trade > Moral and ethical aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

PART ONE : A NEW DAWN: The rise of the sun king -- The whistle-blower -- The first offense -- A slippery slope -- Saving the world -- A wake-up call -- PART TWO : CRISIS YEARS: Danger at the plant -- A tragedy -- Code black -- The fix-it man -- A torrid affair -- PART THREE : THE REFORMATION: A changing culture -- Off the hook -- Run to failure -- A delicate balance -- SOS.

ISBN

• 9780393081626 (hardcover)
• 0393081621 (hardcover)

LCCN

^^2011046141

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library