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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Residential Battery Storage - Reshaping The Way We Do Electricity

By: Christian Kaps and Serguei Netessine
In this paper, we aim to understand when private households invest in behind-the-meter battery storage next to rooftop solar and how those batteries impact households, the electricity market, and emissions. We answer three main research questions: 1) When do customers... View Details
Keywords: Solar Power; Energy Storage; Technology And Innovation Management; Energy; Energy Policy; Renewable Energy; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Energy Industry
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  • 01 Jan 2012
  • News

E. Roe Stamps IV, MBA 1974

were interested in investing with him. “Once they were on board, we were able to get institutional investors,” says Stamps, who asked colleague Steve Woodsum to join him in establishing Summit Partners. Working side by side for over 20... View Details
  • Research Summary

Putting Patients First: Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations

It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world’s poorest countries. Of the over 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the developing world. The first half of this paper explores the economics of HIV and... View Details
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

2018 Independently published Unlocked: Keys to Improve Your Thinking By: Zaltman, Gerald Abstract—What’s the best way to change your life? Change how you think, says marketing guru Gerald Zaltman. While most of us are accustomed to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Feb 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

into the economy to maintain low interest rates, supporting business growth and lower borrowing costs—help? Should we be surprised that economic growth, at least in terms of how we measure it, increased... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Jan 2023
  • Blog Post

Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

HBS career coaches are committed to helping MBA students and alumni realize their unique career visions. They are trained to assist with all aspects of the career development process including self-assessment and career vision, developing... View Details
  • Article

Values, Purpose, Meaning, and Expectations: Why Culture and Context Matter

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
The "rational person" standard, based on assumptions of economic self-interest, has long prevailed in legal reasoning. But understanding of decision making, behavioral choices, and possibilities for action must be enlarged to include a variety of factors that give... View Details
Keywords: Standards; Interests; Decision Making; Behavior; Value; Groups and Teams; Performance Expectations; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives
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  • Research Summary

Creating Trust in International Joint Ventures in Asia: An Empirical Comparative Study

In the wake of the currently ongoing financial crisis in Asia, we anticipate a rapid increase of international joint ventures between Asian and Western firms. However, so far, the sources of success in international joint ventures have not been well understood. Why do... View Details
  • February 2020
  • Case

Leading Change in Talent at L'Oréal

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Vincent Dessain and Emer Moloney
Jean-Claude Le Grand just stepped into a new role as Executive Vice-President for Human Resources at the global cosmetics company, L’Oréal. He is now responsible for the hiring, development, promotion, and retention of 83,000 employees worldwide. The highly successful... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Business Headquarters; Business Divisions; Business Organization; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Demographics; Diversity; Gender; Nationality; Multinational Firms and Management; Human Resources; Employees; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Management; Jobs and Positions; Employment; Human Capital; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Personal Development and Career; Planning; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Networks; Social Psychology; Attitudes; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; France; Paris
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  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

Berkley Professor Dara O'Rourke, is at a critical junction. The venture capital-funded company has yet to find the business model to monetize a very promising product that provides consumers and manufacturers with information about the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

of the 2020 Case Centre Award in the Marketing Category for “Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap” (HBS Case 517-115) with Ayelet Israeli. Jill J. Avery : Winner of... View Details
  • Research Summary

A major area of Professor Torfason's research is the behavior of individual social network structures. He studies the violation of norms – specifically the use of excessive force in conflict situations – within the empirical context of a large online... View Details

  • 22 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning

Disagreements don’t have to end discussions. In fact, as researchers from the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School discussed at a recent event, engaging with those who hold opposing views can be constructive and lead to new discoveries and new allies.... View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette
  • 11 Oct 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

And consumers are becoming less willing to pay for it in the price of GM's products. When dependency ratios become too burdensome, as in the case of Bethlehem Steel in 2001,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • October 2023
  • Case

CornerUp: Digitizing the Corner Store

By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, Stacy Straaberg and Diego Zainos De La Sota Riva
In July 2023, Jason Diaz, co-founder and CEO of CornerUp, assessed the progress of his business-to-business e-procurement software application (app) startup, founded in January 2022. CornerUp began as a fast-moving consumer packaged goods (FMCG) distributor in New York... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Small Business; Transition; Decisions; Social Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Disruptive Innovation; Market Participation; Digital Platforms; Trust; Business Strategy; Expansion; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Technology Industry; United States
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  • June 2012
  • Article

Pricing to Create Shared Value

By: Marco Bertini and John T. Gourville
Many companies are in competition with their customers to extract as much value as possible from every transaction. Pricing is their weapon of choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that... View Details
Keywords: Pricing; Marketing Strategy; Price; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Relationship Management; Value Creation; Fairness
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  • Teaching Interest

Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact (MBA)

Health, and development more broadly, is not something we give to people: it is something they produce themselves, interacting with supply-side and institutional factors. This course trains students to see through the lens of the end-user and to use the levers of... View Details

  • 03 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Recent Grad Reflections: From Being Cold Called to Becoming a Case Protagonist

Francisco. She hopes that sharing her story will encourage everyone (regardless of background or prior experience) to make full use of the resources at HBS to explore and develop their View Details
  • Web

Competitions & Challenges - Health Care

students and individual graduate students who have inventions in categories that represent significant sectors of the economy: healthcare, transportation and mobility, food/water and agriculture, and View Details
  • Web

Interviewing - Alumni

Careers Interviewing Careers Interviewing Preparation is key to a successful interview. The tips and questions below are designed to let you know what to expect from the process and to help you plan your approach. Remember, the path of... View Details