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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
drag on for weeks. Greentech’s solution? Stuntz plans to acquire a small finish-work construction company to guarantee timely completion of future projects. After an initial rush of orders, Greentech’s assembly line fell silent last...
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- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
repeat riders, we realized Cycle for Survival could have a bigger impact than anyone ever imagined,” says David. Given their marketing and finance experience (Jen was Nickelodeon’s senior vice president of consumer marketing; David was...
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- February 2013 (Revised December 2015)
- Case
Groom Energy Solutions: Selling Efficiency
By: Michael W. Toffel, Kira R. Fabrizio and Stephanie van Sice
Groom Energy Solutions helps organizations reduce their energy use and costs through the implementation of energy efficiency measures, which create long-term financial and environmental benefits. With early success serving customers in the cold storage and industrial...
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Energy Efficiency Paradox;
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Toffel, Michael W., Kira R. Fabrizio, and Stephanie van Sice. "Groom Energy Solutions: Selling Efficiency." Harvard Business School Case 613-054, February 2013. (Revised December 2015.)
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Being Uncomfortable at HBS
novelty. If curiosity killed the cat. Then, lucky I am not a cat. Therefore, it isn’t a surprise that I enjoyed my time as a consultant, because it enabled me to jump from helping to develop a strategy for a large health system to supporting the merger of two large...
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Durdana Achakzai
and Latin America. Going to HBS is like traveling around the world to learn global business practices." Applying a broad perspective to energy Even though she had no plans to work in the entertainment industry, Durdana used her...
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- October 2009
- Teaching Note
Inner Mongolia Yili Group: China's Pioneering Dairy Brand (TN)
Teaching Note for [308052].
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
persistent market imperfections -- the WTO has yet to make its mark, and industrialized countries have been slow to dismantle their protectionist schemes -- unemployment and current account deficits continue to be problems in many...
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Garry Emmons
- Profile
Rakhshan Zahid
your business. As a result, I’m planning to develop one of my ideas in an independent project next year to see if my idea has legs. How do your HBS ambitions fit into the big picture of the world beyond? We’re encouraged to solve problems...
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Financial Services
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Up Your Time Affluence
productive but leave us feeling time-poor. To counteract that effect do some time blocking. “Prioritize important tasks by planning long periods of uninterrupted time,” Whillans advises. Make a time-affluence to-do list. Instead of...
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- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
Working PapersStrategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
Working PapersIf You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? The Effects of Education, Financial Literacy and Cognitive Ability on Financial Market Participation Authors:Shawn A. Cole and Gauri Kartini Shastry Abstract Household financial...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
changes simultaneously. The globalization of markets and competition, the rapid maturation of the information age, the expansion of the service-based economy, the impact of deregulation and privatization, the explosion of the knowledge...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
MILLS: Many business leaders do not know enough about markets and business practices abroad. In his many years of teaching and research on the topic of leadership, HBS professor emeritus D. Quinn Mills developed a “natural concern” about...
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- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boomor Bust?
University of Illinois, Netscape became embroiled in a messy intellectual-property dispute. Despite these challenges, on its first day of trading, Netscape soared to a market capitalization of $2.1 billion. Why did Andreessen and Clark...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
is one of those corners of finance that is very useful to understand, whether or not you work in finance,” he says. In 2008 and 2009, when the field of ratings seemed ripe for upheaval, Becker learned of several planned rating agency...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
illustrations of standard parts, such as valves, pumps, and gears. Today Lawson is the vice president of marketing at InPart, a company she cofounded upon graduating from HBS. InPart, now fifty employees strong, is creating a library of...
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Faculty | Information Technology
Creative Cloud Budgeting Computer Upgrades Generative AI Tools at HBS My Requests Information Security Marketing & Communications Templates O365 SharePoint OneDrive O365 Teams Personal Devices Printing Travel Information Working Remotely...
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- 21 Jan 2021
- News
New Menu
imports 90 percent of its food supply, considered the uncertainties climate change is introducing into the global food market and set a target of fulfilling 30 percent of its nutritional needs domestically by 2030; alternative protein...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
“discover, buy, and sell authentic tour experiences.” Zhang, the founder of travel firm WildChina which serves foreign visitors, launched NewUGo to connect the rapidly growing domestic Chinese travel market to off-the-beaten-path tourism...
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April White
Platform for Dialogue
with specialists of China, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, I learned that a truly comparative approach to understanding social change requires the coming together of faculty expertise in planned and...
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