Technology Transitions - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Apr 2024
News

Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception

Principal at Houston Capital Partners. An expert panel on energy transition technologies included Sarah Jewett (MBA 2019), VP Strategy, Fervo Energy, with introductions by the club’s incoming chairman Eric... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Profile

Peter Gumulia

out, during which you slowly develop your decision-making muscle and, more importantly, your very own leadership philosophy.” Peter’s eagerness to explore has already yielded new opportunities. Active in the Education Club, he is currently looking for ways “to leverage... View Details

07 Dec 2022
Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

recent tax credits, loans, and grants passed in Washington will drive innovation, accelerate the transition, and demonstrate the U.S. commitment to a managed transition to a low/no carbon economy. Following the morning keynotes, attendees... View Details

Profile

Molly Welch

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I worked for several years at Google in marketing and public policy roles, first related to corporate social responsibility initiatives and subsequently to emerging technologies. In my time there, I became convinced... View Details

Web

Electricity - Business & Environment

that the renewable energy market represents a $16 trillion investment opportunity by 2040. [20] Challenge One of the biggest shifts needed to respond to climate change is rapidly transitioning from fossil fuel-based electricity generation... View Details

29 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

The HBS African American Student Union (AASU) aims to create a close-knit community for its members from the time they choose to join HBS, through their transition to the second year, and beyond graduation. In this feature, we highlight... View Details

Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

HBP, HBS Online, and Executive Education as operating expenses, in a profit-seeking enterprise they would in large part be considered cost of goods sold. These expenses include direct costs for staff compensation, specialized outside professional services in... View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

buell) is the Finnegan Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury: Remote work will become strategic I’ve been studying remote work for years now,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and the Market Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting

the Courts Credit and Information Technology Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits “Credit is the vital air of the system of modern commerce. It has done more — a thousand times more — to enrich nations than all the mines of... View Details

09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

industry?Two courses were particularly useful for me: Transforming Health Care Delivery (THCD) with Visiting Professor Ariel Stern, and Strategy and Technology (STRATTECH) with Associate Professor Andy Wu. THCD was a two-part course;... View Details

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

independent. "Firestone's historical excellence and disastrous response to global competition and technological innovation," writes Sull, "posed a paradox for industry observers: Why had the industry's best managed company... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

Web

Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Research (JMR) , 2016) with Raghuram Iyengar and Martin Schleicher. Julian De Freitas : Recipient of a 2021 Exceptional Reviewer Award from the Journal of Vision . Ayelet Israeli : Received the 2021 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching in recognition of outstanding... View Details

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

organizations. We can learn vicariously from their experiences. Consider the example of one manager who was about to undergo a critical transition in her career, only four years after first becoming a manager. When she was about to step... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

Climate Stories Episode #15 – Hilton Augustine III - Finding and Funding Climate Technology Solutions Episode 15 of Climate Stories focuses on recent HBS alumnus, Hilton Augustine III. A veteran of consulting, electric vehicle... View Details

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

deposit; in the fifth, the control group, no intervention took place. As background, Rigol and her coauthors note that the federal work program featured in the study transitioned from cash to electronic payments in 2008. In late 2012, the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Web

Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

and public sector responses. The wide-ranging effects of environmental risks, technological advances, infrastructure challenges, business model innovations, and national and international policy shifts are impacting the financial sector... View Details

19 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract The U.S. has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use information View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2017
Teaching Note

Hilti Fleet Management (A) and (B)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Oliver Gassmann and Roman Sauer

These notes are meant to accompany Hilti Fleet Management (A): Turning a Successful Business Model on Its Head (717-427) and Hilti Fleet Management (B): Towards a New Business Model (717-465).
This case explores the introduction of fleet management in the... View Details

Citation

Purchase

Web

HBS - The year in Review

core activities of teaching, research, and disseminating ideas. Faculty and students alike embraced the custom technology that enabled teaching and learning both in the classroom and remotely. They were supported by hundreds of frontline... View Details

30 Jan 2018
First Look

January 30, 2018

third-party sellers largely carried inventory costs, the Board had made a drastic decision: Jumia would shift from an online retail model to a marketplace model. They also made it very clear that a failure to properly implement this View Details