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- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
extremely powerful—function of government. Now, you also asked about the future. One thing I've learned is that historians very often get themselves into trouble when they start trying to predict the future. So I'm not going to try to do... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
firm has a high percentage of misconduct doesn’t mean all of its advisors are bad. “Customers shouldn’t necessarily be afraid of firms with high levels of misconduct, but they should make use of the resources publicly available to them,” he says. Since past behavior... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
citizens could meet these kinds of calamities with ease and cool minds." Eric Schmidt echoed this call to action in commenting that "readiness is only achieved through practice." E. Hassen observed that "events cannot be View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
just India—to HBS and the best of HBS to the region.” Anjali Raina (AMP 174, 2008), Executive Director of HBS’s India Research Center With the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund predicting that India will overtake China as the... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
explains changing bond risks but only when risk premia change endogenously as predicted by the model. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45672 Full Substitutability By: Hatfield, John William, Scott... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
the social objective function, tagging generates costs that must be weighed against the benefits it generates through conventional channels. Only tags that are sufficiently predictive of ability, such as disability status, will be used.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
wild." Key concepts include: The harmful side effects of goal setting are far more serious and systematic than prior work has acknowledged. Goal setting harms organizations in systematic and predictable ways. The use of goal setting... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
technological outcome predicted by purely economic or organizational models. We also show that interactions of producers, users and institutions shape the development of collective frames around the meaning of new technologies. We thus... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
Behavioral research suggests that human learning in some multi-agent systems can be predicted with surprisingly simple "foresight-free" models. The current note discusses the implications of this research, and its relationship... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
channels will fuel a shift in consumption away from hits to a much larger number of lower-selling niche products. While the long-tail view predicts an increase in the heterogeneity of consumption patterns, the well-known superstar effect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
non-obvious, second-order effects—things we can't see clearly right now. The human tendency in trying to predict what will happen in the future is to extrapolate in a straight line from today. So we imagine doing more of what we do with... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
economists predict the effects of changes in immigration of specific ethnic groups. “This notion that if you opened up the immigration spigot then entrepreneurship would happen everywhere is probably not true,” he says. “But if you were... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
upside down and might end up destroying it altogether. Some people even predicted that one huge trust would come to dominate the entire American economy. This may seem funny now, but in the context of the times it did not. At the turn of... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
valuation estimates to examine whether analysts reliably assess the risk surrounding a firm's fundamental value. We find that the spread in analysts' state-side contingent valuations captures the riskiness of operations and predicts the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
otherwise." In the cases of umpires and ministers, Parsons's work falls under the broader category of incentive research. "They are about what causes people to behave in predictable ways, and how that changes over time," he... View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
financial resources increase the benefits of partner-specific experience. Finally, we predict that the value of partner-specific experience will increase under high levels of firm-specific uncertainty. We test these hypotheses with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Groom Energy Solutions; Jon Guerster; Salem, MA; Energy Management; Energy Efficiency Paradox; Sustainability Management; Manufacturing; Cold Storage; Commercial Real Estate; Enterprise Smart Grid; Carbon Accounting; LED Lighting; Sustainability Research; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Entrepreneurship; Energy Entrepreneurship; Energy Services; Electricity; Startup; Expansion; Growth; Sustainability; Business Startups; Forecasting and Prediction; Energy Conservation; Revenue; Geographic Location; Human Resources; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Operations; Service Delivery; Strategic Planning; Science; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Society; Social Issues; Technology Adoption; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; United States; Boston
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.)
- May 2010
- Supplement
Tremblant Capital Group Exhibits (CW)
By: Robin Greenwood
Brett Barakett, CEO and founder of Tremblant Capital Group, a New York-based hedge fund, must decide what to do with his fund's position in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, which has dropped in value by more than 40 percent in recent months. Tremblant is a hedge fund... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
Boston predict which places might be violating public health regulations. And it is working with an education nonprofit in Watertown, Mass., Education Resource Strategies, to study how school districts spend money. "The outcome is that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
surprised by the design of the Apple Watch. Many told me is it not as aesthetically pleasing or distinctive as they would have predicted from an Apple product. If you put the Apple Watch in a lineup of its competitors, some people might... View Details