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13 May 2013
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The Power of Three

Perhaps it was because they had worked together at Goldman Sachs before business school, or because two of them had been roommates at HBS. But whatever held them together remained in force when Anne Dias Griffin, Julie Frist, and Teresa... View Details

October 2012 (Revised March 2014)
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Privatization of the Power Sector in Nigeria (A)

By: Eric Werker, Onyechi Ezekwueche, Olatomiwa Igun and Alice Wei

In spite of its abundant energy resources, Nigeria in 2012 had one of the lowest levels of energy use in the world. Self-generation of power from costly generators was double that of grid-supplied electricity. The history of its power sector was one of inefficient... View Details

Keywords: Privatization; Energy; Nigeria

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23 Sep 2015
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Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

goals, but fewer of them are focused on power. Women perceive professional power as less desirable than men do. Women anticipate more negative outcomes from attaining a high-power position. Women are less likely than men to jump at... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Reversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the Power of Ideas

Keywords: by David Moss; Banking

03 Apr 2013
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Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

Summing Up How Important is Leadership Gender in Influencing the Way We Work? Any attempt to describe behaviors on the basis of gender runs the risk of stereotyping, generalizing, and generally... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Apr 2019
Blog Post

How Being an Introvert Influenced My Business School Experience

Bismah Rahmat is a second-year student at HBS (Class of 2019). Here, Bismah shares her experience of how being an introvert specifically impacted her experience at the school as well as her summer internship search. At first glance, it may seem that students in... View Details

October, 2022
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The Economic Dynamics of Competing Power Generation Sources

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein

Competing power generation sources have experienced considerable shifts in both their revenue potential and their costs in recent years. Here we introduce the concept of Levelized Profit Margins (LPM) to capture the changing unit economics of both intermittent and... View Details

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The Political Power of Weak Interests

By: Gunnar Trumbull

One of the most broadly accepted theoretical claims of public policy is the proposal that interests shared by a large set of actors tend to be under-represented in public policy. From Mancur Olson to George Stigler to James Q. Wilson, our most influential theorists... View Details

July 2011
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Bringing Ethics into Focus: How Regulatory Focus and Risk Preferences Influence (Un)ethical Behavior

By: F. Gino and Joshua D. Margolis

Keywords: Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Risk and Uncertainty

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1996
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Frank Barron's Influence on Current and Future Generations of Creativity Researchers: Some Personal Reflections

By: T. M. Amabile, R. Conti and M. A. Collins

Keywords: Creativity; Research; Power and Influence

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June 2014
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The Price of Wall Street's Power

By: Gautam Mukunda

Over and over again, executives make decisions that aren't in their companies' best interests, in response to pressure from Wall Street. Though many believe this happens because firms have a "fiduciary duty" to maximize shareholder returns, U.S. executives do not, as a... View Details

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2002
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The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876-1932

By: Noel Maurer

Keywords: Money; Finance; System; History; Mexico

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October 1991
Background Note

Management Power and Style: Implications for Information Technology and Organizational Change

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Franklin D. Roosevelt, Electric Utilities, and the Power of Competition

By: Willis Emmons

Keywords: Government and Politics; Energy; Competition; Energy Industry

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01 Dec 2017
News

The Power of Cultural Understanding

companies and governments is vitally important, he observes, not just for the School and its students but also for the regions themselves. “It is an extremely powerful way to... View Details

January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
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Juno (B): Leveraging Student Power

By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein

In March 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to pitch banks in anticipation of their annual auction while negotiating directly with private lender Eager. Responses from the majority of private lenders—including Juno’s 2019 partner—were not... View Details