Word: haider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quite a view. In terms of globalization, few, if any, corporations can match the 85-year experience around the world of Jersey Standard, or its range of activities. With 52% of its vast assets abroad, Jersey is the world's biggest private overseas investor. Thus "Iron Mike" Haider, in the course of a day's work, may be involved in everything from a Middle East coup to whether Jersey should eventually construct a 1,000,000-ton supertanker, or what the President of the U.S. has on his mind...
Jersey Standard is actually a holding company and-thanks in considerable part to Haider-a highly decentralized corporate parent to 300 affiliates that do all its exploring, producing, refining and marketing of petroleum products in more than 100 nations. Out of all this, Jersey's most recent annual earnings were $1.1 billion from well-oiled sales of $13.6 billion...
Esso Europe, at Mike Haider's insistence, was concocted in 1966 as an even more diverse mixture. Picked to head it was an American, Nicholas J. Campbell Jr., 52, who had earlier been in Venezuela for Jersey and in Japan as president of Esso Sekiyu, the Japanese affiliate. Choosing as many capable executives as possible from Europe, Campbell ended up with a mix that includes 121 Americans, four Canadians, one Venezuelan, 86 Britons, 21 Germans, 16 Frenchmen, 14 Italians, ten Belgians, ten Norwegians, nine Swedes, eight Dutchmen, two Danes, two Swiss, one Finn and one Maltese, who all work...
Daring to Be Different. Innovations like Esso Europe fascinate Jersey executives because Haider, as a 38-year veteran of a longtime conservative company, might have been expected to go by the well-thumbed company book. But in the course of his career, Haider has often dared to be different; living in an Oklahoma oil camp in the 1930s, he was the only employee who stubbornly refused to cut his lawn at company orders, and was nearly fired...
...Haider was born on a North Dakota wheat farm, moved with his family to California as a teenager. He got his chemical-engineering degree at Stanford University ('27), before long was working for a Jersey affiliate called Carter Oil, where one of his early laboratory assignments was to check the quality of helium gas for use in dirigibles. Jersey prefers that its men not put down roots, and Iron Mike never really has. He bounced around the Southwest, moved from New York to Florida to Canada, where in 1947, as Imperial Oil's production boss, he brought...