While the United Nations Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) is a very positive development in the horizon of management education over the last decade, there are still many significant challenges for engaging the mind of the manager in ways that will foster the values of PRME and the UN Global Compact. Responsible management education must address three foundational challenges in business education if it is to actualize the aspirations of PRME: 1) it must confront the cognitional myth that knowing is like looking, 2) it must move beyond mere analysis to systems thinking, and 3) it must transition from a values-neutral stance to a values-driven stance. Using Developing Sustainable Strategies, an MBA practicum in the Sustainable Management Concentration at DePaul University's Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, as a case study, this article identifies the ways in which Pragmatic Inquiry can addresses these challenges. The method of Pragmatic Inquiry prepares students to become responsible managers, to develop sustainable strategies, and to be creators of shared value. Built from the philosophical foundations of American pragmatism and Bernard Lonergan's critical realism, Pragmatic Inquiry is an effective method and pedagogy for responsible management education.

Insufficient borehole pressure integrity (BHPI) is a significant drilling challenge in deep, high-temperature, high-pressure (HTHP) wells in south Texas, as it is in many wells. Shales and/or sands weakened by depletion, leaking faults, or unfavorable rock properties result in lost returns when mud weights are close to pore pressures. In one field, short (~50 ft) transitions from normal (11 lb/gal) to overpressured (17.5 to 18.0 lb/gal) Frio formations compound the severity of this challenge. Setting casing to isolate normal-pressure from high-pressure zones can be problematic if faults exist at the casing shoe and/or the cement job does not provide a good hydraulic seal. In one case, the intermediate casing shoe failed to test, and conventional cement squeezes were unable to correct the problem. In the productive portion of the well, preventing skin and or formation damage in an interval that had a wide range of pore pressures (8.5 to 17.8 lbm/gal), was a major concern with any treatment option to increase borehole integrity. This paper describes successful applications of new BHPI treatment materials and methods for increasing borehole integrity. BHPI treatments have allowed higher drilling and cementing circulation rates. This has helped optimize drilling performance and improve well conditions during cementing operations, which has resulted in improved primary cementing success. It has been suggested that skin damage in the zones of interest can be minimized since BHPI treatments can be designed and targeted to only enter areas with low BHPI. In one case, a BHPI treatment entered a low-pressure productive interval, which, after a planned stimulation program, did not seem to affect production performance. In another case, after BHPI treatments helped increase wellbore integrity, the productive interval in one well was successfully cemented without requiring a drilling liner, which would have limited completion flexibility. A theoretical rock mechanics model is discussed to help explain how the new BHPI treatments can rapidly and substantially increases the pressure integrity of holes located across both sand and shale formations. Minor BHPI filtrate invasions during tests in high- and low-permeability sandstone cores should explain why the new BHPI system also limits formation damage. Introduction Many types of formations can have poor BHPI integrity immediately below the casing shoe and deeper in the hole to the next casing-seat depth. This lack of pressure sealing, structural integrity to contain planned bore-hole pressures may be the result of natural in-situ stresses that cause weak BHPI points or defects in rock such as natural fractures and leaking faults. Drilling induced stresses that create new fractures or open sealed faults make up the balance of causes for low BHPI along with a significant number of chemically sensitive formations that weaken upon exposure to drilling fluids. Equivalent-circulating-pressure (ECD) and swab/surge pressures during drilling, tripping drill pipe, running casing, and cementing may exceed these low BHPI values. In the drilling cases, problematic conditions can occur, such as severe lost circulation, inadequate hole cleaning, lowered fluid column pressures, and subsequent formation fluid influx. During drilling, problematic conditions can occur, such as severe lost circulation, inadequate hole cleaning, lowered fluid-column pressures, and subsequent formation fluid influx. Exceeding BHPI values during primary cementing can jeopardize zonal isolation and casing support. These incidents often increase well development costs by forcing operators to set casing early, run a drilling liner, use a contingency casing string, and perform remedial cementing. In some wells with known low BHPI conditions, such as deepwater and HTHP wells, budgets must account for additional pipe strings necessary for drilling and completing the well. In addition, a significant number of well control problems occur from lack of BHPI.

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fax 01-972-952-9435. AbstractThe authors will discuss the use of ream while drilling (RWD) technology in two wells, the S.K. East #4 and #5. RWD technology was used to reduce problems associated with drilling through several Frio sands from 11,000 ft to 14,000 ft, in the Sarita Field, Kenedy County Texas. This hole section has reservoirs that are difficult to drill, log and case due to a high potential for differential sticking (e.g. drillpipe, liner, openhole logging tools). Additionally, because the reservoir pressure is close to the fracture gradient, it was necessary to minimize equivalent circulating density (ECD) during both drilling and cementing operations. Another challenge in this interval is the tendency for some reservoirs to compact, reactivating faults. Finally, deviation tendencies were critical because of complex geology and lease constraints.The operator selected to drill an oversized hole with a 12¼" RWD tool as a contingency to address the problems described above. Overall, sticking tendencies were eliminated, and lower ECD's allowed the interval to be drilled and cased with reduced lost returns. After drilling the section, caliper logs indicated a nearly in gauge hole diameter, and the deviation tendency of the interval was reduced compared to offset wells. The final survey showed only ½°and 1/3° of divergence from vertical for wells SKE #4 and SKE #5 respectively.

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