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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
sustainability. Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, chairman and CEO of the Ayala Corporation and vice chairman of Manila Water, is an architect of the water company’s successful triple-bottom-line approach to providing millions with a basic necessity: View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
my vehicle' rather than 'the inspector accurately measured my vehicle's emissions,'" says Toffel, an associate professor and Marvin Bower Fellow in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at HBS. "This results in... View Details
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
opportunities. And while oil prices continue to rise and fall, energy services firms are seeing rapid growth—especially those firms that provide services to both traditional and emerging clean technology... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
can be used to evaluate the implications of marketing actions, consumer heterogeneity, competition, successive technology generations, and globalization. The exposition is filled with vivid examples from a wide array of domains (video... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Driving Social Impact Through Consumer Behavior: Nonprofit to Finance to Retail with Nicole Krantz (MBA 2022)
student-run company, Campus Enterprises, as the Chief Operating Officer,” Krantz shared. “The company is several different ventures under one umbrella, and I founded a new cleaning service business within it.” In her senior year, Krantz... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
detailed panel dataset on supply relationships in the mobile telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying, and build technological and market... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
at a company that would act as an avenue rather than a barrier to his vision of the future of technology. It was Noyce's silicon integrated circuit that gave "Silicon Valley" its name. Andrew Carnegie's career provides a guide to the View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=12819 Do you Need a New Product-Development Strategy? Authors:Alan MacCormack, W. Crandall, P. Toft, and P. Henderson Publication:Research Technology Management 55, no. 1... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
controlling for investment size, stage, and industry. Geographic distance and technological inexperience by the VC increase the probability the investment is taken up by a partner and not the VC. This work contributes to an emerging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
project in partnership with Fermata Energy and clean energy developer NineDot Energy to deploy a bidirectional charging system that can both charge electric vehicles (EVs) and discharge those EVs to send energy stored in their batteries... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
there lessons from the past that could be used for guidance? A: Clearly there will be areas such as infrastructure, health care, education, clean technologies, etc., that will get a boost because of investments and demand from the public... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
prosperity, with exuberance about the promise of new technology. In the subsequent years, the place of America in the world has changed dramatically. The dot-com boom was followed by a recession, and only recently has the technology... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
globalized business world, and technologies that are constantly changing. Within that dynamic environment, a curveball can come from anywhere: a portion of their businesses may suddenly dry up, belt-tightening layoffs may loom, or... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
Ponzetto Abstract—Cities generate negative, as well as positive, externalities; addressing those externalities requires both infrastructure and institutions. Providing clean water and removing refuse requires water and sewer pipes, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
their children's or relatives' college educations. The business would require a huge technology infrastructure, to capture millions of consumers' purchases and to direct company rebates on their spending (for credit-card and telephone... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
emissions grows ever more urgent. The prospect of a clean energy source that could serve double duty as a carbon-capture technology has proven irresistible to investors, who have sunk hundreds of millions of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Guide to Very Long-Term Investing By Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) Wiley In just 10 short, accessible, and inviting chapters, Rethinking Investing: A Very Short Book on Very Long-Term Investing presents... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- HBS Case
How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?
make some of the building tools themselves because commercial ones aren’t precise enough. Every watch is hand assembled, twice, in the German workshop. When the first assembly is complete (and working fine), the watch is taken apart, every part View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
love didn’t last, though, especially when Kalanick defied those same cities when they tried to enforce local laws or when Uber would start a service without municipal permission. (Uber argued it was a technology company connecting riders... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
scenario—that there will be a few people who make a lot of money and leave behind a mess for others to clean up. And the main thing is that the expectations of a long-term production boost are unfounded. That goes for the Bakken and this... View Details