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October, 2022
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The Economic Dynamics of Competing Power Generation Sources

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein

Competing power generation sources have experienced considerable shifts in both their revenue potential and their costs in recent years. Here we introduce the concept of Levelized Profit Margins (LPM) to capture the changing unit economics of both intermittent and... View Details

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15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

find that tax cuts lead to an increase in real investment, suggesting a trade-off between investment and inequality at the state level. This paper studies the effects of corporate tax changes on income... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Mar 2022
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Meet the HBS Women's Student Association

What is the WSA? The WSA, or Women’s Student Association, is a student-led organization at HBS for anyone who identifies as a woman. We’re the largest student organization on campus and are one of the few clubs that don’t request dues... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

the 1994 merger of BWH and Massachusetts General Hospital. He later served as the founding co-chair of the merged entity, Partners HealthCare System, Inc. In addition to BWH, McArthur was a director of... View Details

18 Nov 2014
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the management and business history literatures that entrepreneurship needs incorporating more strongly as an explanatory factor. This working paper argues that Koç acted as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small

brands and SKUs,” she says. Shruti, who graduated at the top of her class at the Indian Institute of Technology and had experience in consulting and impact investing, came to HBS to gain the skills to launch an India-based impact View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Putting the Project Puzzle Together

critical. Q: Most large organizations manage their portfolios as a collection of projects, rather than as an integrated portfolio. Yet, as you... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

options. They can invest in new as well as shelved technologies and product designs that are particularly effective in mitigating risk and improving safety—even when they are... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

in Washington politicians. Fairly or not, people have become willing to believe that executives, as a class, are greedy and dishonest. However natural it might be to ask how so many executives—not to mention accountants, View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

18 May 2023
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India's New Money Managers

conditioning: the idea that men simply manage money better than women. "This is not just an India problem but rather a global problem," she says. Gupta did, in fact, take the idea back to India, officially launching LXME in 2020 View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

15 Feb 2024
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Startup Shepherds

confusion in how the founders relate their story, or an overreliance on fundraising. “We started to see some patterns,” Sherman notes. That year, the pair jointly invested in three companies, about one... View Details

Keywords: April White

10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

across the United States: proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with bigger firms and fewer start-ups in the middle of the 20th century. We use mines as an instrument for our entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Nov 2013
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Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

levels of management was a theme running through several comments. As Dennis Nelson put it, "When an organization knows on what investments its existence depends, and the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth (John Wiley & Sons, 2018) was selected as an 800-CEO-READ Business Book in the Management and Workplace Culture category in 2018.... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

savings plans made people less likely to save for retirement. Instead of being motivated by their peers’ admirable investment activity, they were demoralized. As writer Christian Camerota explains in View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 May 2024
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On the Job

she was busy every summer, working at multiple jobs in Cleveland and beyond. York acknowledges her good luck in gaining access to so many different opportunities as a young person. She’s also grateful to HBS for subsidizing a summer... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

22 Sep 2023
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Capital Connection

complexities of capitalizing their projects—from debt to equity funding options—on their own. This is precisely where DLS steps in, leveraging 20 years of industry experience and relationships to connect clients with the right investors. “We view ourselves View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

26 Feb 2001
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Evolving for Success [Part One]

starting companies. Maybe I should try to forget that I have an investment in several decades of a business career, and see if I can learn fresh, new things." I asked young people who were starting... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

29 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

cover, hypothesizing that analysts gain comparatively good information if they attended the same college as a firm's top executives or board members. In short, the researchers found that the analysts outperformed on their stock... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

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