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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
launched a three-year, $90 million marketing campaign with taglines such as “Freezing is nature’s pause button.” Luvo is hoping to stay at the crest of this trend by offering healthy, low-sodium meals that exceed expectations: It only View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
Although Stiftung Solarenergie donated the first lanterns, Ayala, who identifies himself as a “social businessman,” said the plan is to tie the new power source to self-sustaining community development initiatives. “Even simple products... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
careers that are less financially rewarding. We need to find ways to help them focus on their ambitions rather than on the repayment of heavy debt. For all these reasons, it is crucial that we develop more sources for financial aid. Are... View Details
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Micah Macfarlane
wind, and solar. "I want to work on business development and strategy to scale the best ideas as rapidly and effectively as possible." After graduation, Micah wants to continue on that path – targeting our major sources of... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
fossil fuels, extracted by mining or drilling, for raw material. Aether’s innovation is sourcing the building blocks for its diamonds from pollution already in the air, through a carbon-capture company in Switzerland. In addition to the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
ever dreamed that frequentflier miles would become a multibillion-dollar source of incremental airline revenue," he notes. In 1982, Brierley was named vice president of sales and advertising for Pan American World Airways, where he... View Details
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
From Farms to Fuel Tanks: Collective Actors and New-Venture Innovation in the U.S. Biodiesel Fuel Sector
By: Shon R. Hiatt
Little is known about the influence of collective actors on innovative technological recombinations by new ventures. Using data from U.S. biodiesel producers, I examine how the efforts of multiple collective actors (farm associations) to promote varying types of... View Details
- September 2004 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
U.S. Market Framework for Gasoline, The: Individual Incentives and Societal Goals in Global Markets
By: Bruce R. Scott and Edward Murphy
Traces the role of gasoline taxes in financing U.S. highways and the use of regulations to increase fuel economy to show how and why the U.S. market framework for gasoline is so different from that in Europe. Focuses on whether the U.S. tax should be raised, as... View Details
- October 2003 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Cape Wind
By: John T. Gourville and Kerry Herman
Cape Wind has proposed placing a 170-tower wind farm, with each tower more than 400-feet tall, in Nantucket Sound. Not surprisingly, public reaction is mixed. Some view the wind farm as clean, renewable energy. Others view it as an eyesore and a desecration of a valued... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Renewable Energy; Consumer Behavior; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Behavior; United States
Gourville, John T., and Kerry Herman. "Cape Wind." Harvard Business School Case 504-055, October 2003. (Revised February 2004.)
- Profile
Benjamin Peterson
was generally interested in foreign aid and, specifically, on road building,” says Ben. “What explained road conditions? Was it just weather, climate, materials? After accounting for variables, I found that the source of funding made the... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog
relative costs and benefits of each source of funding and the connections between a venture's financing strategy and its product-market strategy. Inevitably, there will be some overlap with courses such as Launching Global Ventures,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
Leverage supply chains, and market their efforts. “Corporate environmental leadership today means engaging aggressively, even uncomfortably, to promote robust climate policy.” Photo courtesy of Rick Needham Photo courtesy of Rick Needham “Renewable energy View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
measurable impact on a business’s bottom line. For Luca, who has authored several studies on the topic—and is himself an occasional Yelp critic—online reviews are “one of the most powerful information sources that has emerged in decades,... View Details
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Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Navy
By: Forest Reinhardt and Michael W. Toffel
The U.S. Navy operates on the front lines of climate change. It manages tens of billions of dollars in assets on every continent and on every ocean, which take many years to design and build and then have decades of useful life. This means that it needs to understand... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environment; Military; Disaster Relief; Refugees; Environmental Impact; Environmental Strategy; Sustainability; Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Sources; Energy Generation; Globalization; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Supply Chain; Operations; Logistics; Infrastructure; Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Service Industry
Reinhardt, Forest, and Michael W. Toffel. "Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Navy." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 4 (July–August 2017): 102–111.
Robert R. McCormick
effective source of raw material. One of the last great journalists to implant his own personality on a newspaper, McCormick was both hailed and vilified for his staunchly conservative and isolationist views. Though he stirred much... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- September 2019
- Case
Shell: A Company of Opportunity?
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney
The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Human Resources; Employees; Retention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Labor; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Strategic Planning; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Business Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Platform; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Netherlands
Fuller, Joseph B., and Emer Moloney. "Shell: A Company of Opportunity?" Harvard Business School Case 320-025, September 2019.
- October 2015
- Case
Facebook: The First Ten Years
By: Shane Greenstein, Marco Iansiti and Christine Snively
Facebook celebrated its ten year anniversary in February 2014. Over the past decade it has grown into the largest social network in the world with one billion users. After filing an IPO in 2012 at a $104 billion valuation (the third largest IPO in U.S. history), the... View Details
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
important question: Can able managers create value for their organizations by applying the resources at their disposal, and are they thus a source of competitive advantage? In general, NFL head coaches are responsible for player... View Details
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Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Railroad Records Photographs Research Collections Secondary Sources Related Sites Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies &... View Details