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UPower Technologies Inc.

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Liz Kind

The UPower founders, Jake DeWitte and Caroline Cochran, were recent graduates from MIT's Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. They chose to attend Palo Alto–based Y Combinator's accelerator program to focus on building a "mini" nuclear reactor that would produce... View Details

Keywords: Nuclear; Nuclear Energy; Nuclear Power; Energy Markets; New Nuclear; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurial Marketing; Business ＆ Government Relations; Off-grid; Energy; Renewable Energy; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; United States

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26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

a practice described here as “structured empowerment” to balance control and flexibility as they grow. I define structured empowerment as a practice that grants employees both (a) the power to make choices... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Fall 2017 Business History Review The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets By: Austin, Gareth, Carlos Davila, and Geoffrey Jones Abstract—This article suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Spanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment

By: Juan Alcacer and Paul Ingram

Global economic transactions such as foreign direct investment must extend over an institutional abyss between the jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important... View Details

Keywords: International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Controls; International Relations; Social Issues

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05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

core business, ranging from environmental issues to LGBTQ rights and race relations. In the first study of this phenomenon, we implement two framed field experiments to provide evidence on how CEO activism can View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

Brokerage and Brokering: An Integrative Review and Organizing Framework for Third Party Influence By: Halevy, Nir, Eliran Halali, and Julian... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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

any, difference will the “New Silk Road” make in the global educational landscape? Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55549 Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 13 Platform Systems vs. Step Processes—The... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

certification programs are understandable and largely predictable if the ideas, interests, and power of key actors are accurately assessed. When alignment View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

lifelong, if sometimes veiled, engagement with Marx. The result is a work of interpretation that does justice to Hont’s influence while developing its own provocative and illuminating arguments. Markets,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Mar 2013
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No Taxation without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax

Keywords: by Dina Pomeranz

12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

How could Cowen continue to exploit its competitive advantage with data? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/418035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-111 The Powers That Be (Internet Edition): Google, Apple,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

2018 Innovation Policy and the Economy The Orphan Drug Act at 35: Observations and an Outlook for the Twenty-First Century By: Bagley, Nicholas, Benjamin Berger, Amitabh Chandra, Craig Garthwaite, View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

substitutability is preserved under economically important transformations such as trade endowments, mergers, and limited liability. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54957 Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

influence the perceptions that people have about a place in a way that is conducive to their goals. This background note lays the ground for instructors to expose students to the concept of a place brand, allow them to examine the ways in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

2013
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How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Imprinting of Individuals and Hybrid Social Ventures

By: Matthew Lee and Julie Battilana

Hybrid organizations that combine multiple, existing organizational forms are frequently proposed as a source of organizational innovation, yet little is known about the origins of such organizations. We propose that individual founders of hybrid organizations acquire... View Details

Keywords: Hybrid Organizations; Imprinting; Institutional Theory; Social Entrepreneurship; Organizations

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30 Sep 2021

HBS Perspectives in Health: Healthy Buildings and Productivity – Organizational Imperatives Pre, During, and Post Covid

HBS Professor John Macomber will lead a discussion with Joseph Joe Allen, Director of the Healthy Buildings program and an Associate Professor at Harvard’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health. They will share their insights into what makes... View Details

30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer into Windows, and Apple set Apple Maps as the iOS default. Policymakers have raised concerns that dominant... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman