Hess
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Resnick-Ault Jessica. Hess
Preface
Chapter 1. Hess Family
Chapter 2. Hess at War
Chapter 3. After the War
Chapter 4. Amerada
Chapter 5. Hess Abroad
Chapter 6. Hess in DC
Chapter 7. Hess, Refined
Chapter 8. When You’re a Jet
Chapter 9. The Hess Truck’s Back
Chapter 10. Getting and Spending
Chapter 11. A New Hess
Chapter 12. Fight for Control
Chapter 13. The Last
References
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Index
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The narrow conference room on the first floor of Hess Corporation’s 29-story downtown Houston office high-rise was quiet. About 100 people were gathered to see the denouement of a four-month battle between the oil company’s board and management and a hedge fund agitating for change.
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That May morning in Houston, shareholders rode the escalator into the Hess conference room. The skyscraper, with more than 800,000 square feet of office space, gleams in the heart of Houston’s booming energy corridor. Shortly after it opened in 2010, as if in homage to its fossil-fuel–loving largest tenant, wind turbine parts fell off the building. The rooftop wind turbines were quietly removed.
Pieces were falling from the Hess empire, too, and with little fanfare, nine board members were removed to make way for the new nominees and the new chairman. The CEO who took over four years before his father’s death had lost some grip on the company whose expansion he had been witnessing firsthand for all of his 59 years.
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