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Jurgen's research focuses on the challenges and opportunites to the energy sector created by technological change and externalities, in particular those associated with greenhouse gas emissons. Specific areas of interest include the development of potential pathways to... View Details
Keywords: Alternative Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Disruptive Innovation; Market Design; Strategic Planning; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Adoption; Sustainable Cities; Business Strategy; Auto Industry; Battery Industry; Energy Industry; Transportation Industry; Utilities Industry
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
company and grow as fast as possible (e.g., high double digits) or be more conservative and grow sales at a financially healthy rate, like traditional retailers did (e.g., single digits). The primary way e-retailing companies achieved... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- March 2010 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Design Creates Fortune: 2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard
By: John D. Macomber and Griffin James
A real estate developer assesses its ability to capture the benefits of investing in LEED Platinum, Vedic Design, and EnergyStar components in new buildings. The building at 2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard in Rockville, Maryland is said to be the healthiest building in the... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Cost vs Benefits; Energy Conservation; Construction; Investment; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leasing; Renting or Rental; Value Creation; Real Estate Industry; Maryland
Macomber, John D., and Griffin James. "Design Creates Fortune: 2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard." Harvard Business School Case 210-070, March 2010. (Revised May 2010.)
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
could lead to substantial growth.” But new research suggests that small businesses are far more fiscally conservative than banks realize. In fact, firms with up to 10 employees hold back spending on their revolving credit lines to create... View Details
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
in HAI and present-on-admission (POA) infection reporting rates that are strongly suggestive of upcoding. We conservatively estimate that 10,000 out of 60,000 annual reimbursed claims for POA infections (18.5%) were upcoded HAIs, costing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
incremental shifts towards sustainability to abandoning for-profit business entirely and re-wilding and conserving millions of acres of lands in Latin America. The book's distinctiveness lies in the use of original empirical data and the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
product categories, or stores. Some are even changing long-held attitudes toward consumption. To many folks, filling the home with more stuff or keeping up with the Joneses is no longer appealing. As a result, the degree of uncertainty in business and consumer markets... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
limitations with using inputs from multiple data sources. Specifically, the model separately derives optimistic and conservative estimates of the effect of multiple workplace exposures on health and uses optimization to calculate upper... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
often discount heavily at the end of the liquidation process in order to achieve 100 percent sell-through of inventory, with the belief that leftover product is a clear sign of poor performance. But Craig and Raman's research shows that using more View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Supreme Court cast the deciding vote to uphold the keystone of the reform: the mandate to purchase insurance. That mandate had a convoluted history. Though born in a conservative think-tank and originally adopted by Republican leaders as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
"quarter") exercised no influence on his investment strategy. He believed that conservative funding was called for in an industry in the midst of technological transformation. Therefore, he always had cash in a depression. He... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
offering a common connection or larger goal, through a relationship based on trust.” By leveraging less traditional means of support, a company can ultimately do more with less, conserving valuable financial resources, and bootstrapping... View Details
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
in the world, way more important than Intel. In any recession, consumers focus closer to home. They become more local and less global in outlook. So these are times of opportunity for the thousands of conservatively run community banks... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
they can relocate their headquarters to a hub, as GE recently did (but make them much smaller). A less expensive strategy is to create an innovation lab or corporate outpost in a talent cluster, as Walmart did with Walmart Labs. The most View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
able to spend that kind of money. So, every single one of those potential barriers was eliminated in the design. Kanter: You're talking about doing radical change in a fairly conservative way. That's one of my principles of making change.... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
maintain social harmony. But opacity also facilitates fraud and corruption, which erode investor confidence and stifle risk-taking. A flamboyant politician Kotaro Tamura attempts to raise public awareness around these tensions, but his provocative style earns him few... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
switch, the more conservative you are. This is a standard risk elicitation method that’s been used in the laboratory countless times now,” Minor says. He then compared the survey results to the investors’ actual portfolio choices. What he... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
(R-KY) cheered: “2017 was the best year for conservatives in the 30 years that I’ve been here. The best year on all fronts.” But Democrats attacked the bill from several angles. House Minority Leader (and former Speaker) Nancy Pelosi... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was a U.N. treaty that by 2006 had been signed by virtually every country in the world except for the United States. The treaty established three main goals: the conservation of biological... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
policies that a great majority of those in the private sector agree are necessary. They defy labels—they're not Republican or Democratic, not liberal or conservative policies. Almost everybody agrees we've got to simplify the corporate... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin