Faculty & Research
Faculty & Research
- September 2025
- Journal of Development Economics
Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India
By: Shawn Cole, Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen and Aparna Krishna
| This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether and in which settings satellite measurements may be effective at estimating both agricultural yields and treatment... |
- June 2025
- Teaching Material
SWEN Blue Ocean: Impact Investing Goes to Sea
By: Vikram S Gandhi and David Allen
| Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 325-013 |
- June 2025
- Teaching Material
The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades (B): The Art of Coalition Building
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
| Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 325-132. Curtis Osceola, Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, exercised leadership to mobilize allies, deal with opposition, and forge internal and external multi-sector coalitions to help preserve... |
- June 2025
- Teaching Material
Transforming a Titan (B)
By: George Serafeim and Lena Duchene
| After a global search the board appoints Marcel Cobuz—ex-LafargeHolcim executive with deep innovation experience—as TITAN’s first non-family CEO. Cobuz co-creates a four-pillar roadmap: sharpen the core cement portfolio, accelerate low-carbon products and aggregates,... |
- June 2025
- Teaching Material
Transforming a Titan (C)
By: George Serafeim and Lena Duchene
| Three years in his tenure as CEO, Cobuz must decide whether to launch a more than 500 million carbon-capture-and-storage facility. The project—Europe’s largest planned CCS installation—would cut almost 20 % of group emissions and unlock a 234 million EU Innovation Fund... |
- June 2025
- Case
Transforming a Titan (A)
By: George Serafeim and Lena Duchene
| Dimitri Papalexopoulos, fourth-generation CEO of TITAN Cement, must decide whether to keep leading the 120-year-old, family-controlled firm or hand the reins to new management. Over 26 years he has turned TITAN from a domestic player into an internationally diversified... |
- June 2025
- Teaching Material
On Video Supplement
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karolin Frankenberger and Sascha Mader
- June 2025
- Case
Power Struggles: Hydro-Quebec’s Energy Dilemma
By: Juan Alcacer and Danika Couture-Peck
| In 2024, Maxime Aucoin, Executive Vice President and CFO of Hydro-Quebec, faced a series of compounding challenges as the utility confronted rapidly rising electricity demand, public pricing constraints, and strained stakeholder relationships. As the steward of... |
- June 2025
- Teaching Material
Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization
By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel and Susan Pinckney
| Teaching note for Arla Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A), HBS No. 624-003 |
- June 2025
- Teaching Material
The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades (B): The Art of Coalition Building
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
| Supplement to the (A) case, 324-002 Curtis Osceola, Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, exercised leadership to mobilize allies, deal with opposition, and forge internal and external multi-sector coalitions to help preserve the... |
- June 2025
- Teaching Material
Vail Resorts: Responding to Activist Pressure (B)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
| Supplement to the (A) case, 225-082. |