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October 2007 (Revised October 2009)
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Global Climate Change and BP

By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Mikell Hyman

Following the sudden resignation of Sir John Browne, Tony Hayward, BP CEO, must decide how global climate change management will figure into BP's corporate strategy. Climate change management was a major part of BP's strategy under Browne: In 1997 Browne broke from his... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Climate Change; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Management Teams; Environmental Sustainability; Government and Politics; Energy Sources; Global Strategy; Operations; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom

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March 1994 (Revised October 1994)
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Reading Energy

By: Forest L. Reinhardt

Reading Energy builds facilities that produce energy from nontraditional fuels. A privately held, entrepreneurial organization, it has spent six years developing a plan to build a waste-to-energy plant in the town of Robbins, Illinois. The plant would burn municipal... View Details

Keywords: Energy Generation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Community Relations; Business Plan; Agreements and Arrangements; Contracts; Risk and Uncertainty; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Illinois

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December 1996
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Hydro-Quebec: In Pursuit of the Great Whale

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein

Keywords: Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Canada

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March 2020
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Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein

In vertically integrated energy systems, integration frequently entails operational gains that must be traded off against the requisite cost of capacity investments. In the context of the model analyzed in this study, the operational gains are subject to inherent... View Details

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05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC By: Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Networking and the giving and receiving of advice outside of one’s own firm are important features of entrepreneurship and innovation. We study how... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

The U.S. energy policy, under the Obama administration, authorized a handful of gas exporters, despite pressure from domestic chemical and utility interests, and approved oil exports for the first time in 40 years. Environmental issues... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

we utilize a natural experiment to show that the effect of relationship bank lending, intensity on takeover probability is not driven by endogeneity issues. Finally, we investigate reasons motivating a bank's role in the market for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

Harvard Business School Case 817-044 Reaching Beyond Your Organization: Empowering Innovation Forward-thinking established companies utilize new routes for external innovation with start-ups and crowds. The reading reviews strategic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

the Challenges of Distributed Generation American Electric Power, like most utilities in the U.S. is currently exposed to distributed generation and the problem of net-metering. Solar installations in particular have been heavily... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures. Methods: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database, we identified patients who underwent isolated CABG (n=3726), AVR (n=1626), MV repair (n=731),... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

construct concrete sea walls? Can low-income communities afford to weatherize buildings when residents struggle with paying utility bills? With transportation as one of the biggest sources of carbon emissions, should budget-limited school... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

higher utility (or satisfaction), higher execution effort (or motivation), faster coordination, less influence activities, and more communication, but also to less experimentation and less information collection. When two firms that are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

organizations that have successfully tapped their data assets, diverse perspectives, and deep knowledge to build an organizational decision-making capability. The book introduces a model that utilizes the collective judgment of an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Sep 2008
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assumptions. The first is that people are more altruistic towards individuals that agree with them and the second is that people's well-being rises when other people share their personal opinions. The act of voting is then a source of vicarious View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

Quarterly 52, no. 3 (September 2007) Abstract Analyzing data on utility patents from 1975 to 2002 in the careers of 35,400 collaborative inventors, this study examines the influence of brokered versus cohesive collaborative social... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

various factors potentially influencing ORT utilization, the case allows students to analyze the possible causes of low ORT utilization and potential measures to address them. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

including internal and external crowdsourcing contests. Emphasis is placed on exploring actual open innovation initiatives within Siemens and their outcomes. These include creating internal social- and knowledge-sharing networks and View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

utilizes a very rare "no haggle pricing" strategy and extended sales cycle when selling pieces to collectors. Though it remains profitable and very respected, the size and scope of the gallery will be brought into question when... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30

occupancy, providing a "spillover" effect. We find that the effects of inpatient workload on LOS spillover across patient types, which we theorize results from most inpatients, regardless of type, utilizing the same shared... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

11 Dec 2012
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illustrate how team members' identities and interests intertwine to affect the distribution and flow of information, subgroup dynamics, and team decisions. Findings-We develop three specific ideas to demonstrate the utility of this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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