Steam - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

decisions more quickly and reliably. Case 3: Preempt the threats Brazil Energy Biomass is an energy producer, generating steam from biomass and selling the energy to industrial clients in take-or-pay contracts. The company has two plants... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

9/11, crying with my coworkers was one of the most transformational moments in my career. Work teams may bond over this current crisis.” 10. Let workers blow off steam With many employees feeling anxious and isolated, companies could set... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

10 Feb 2014
HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

posted a slide show of pictures, and several of them were of me working a steam drill," Mukunda says. "I was buried under so much gear that, as I discovered weeks later, the students had no idea that was me." While Mukunda... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

23 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. The trend of mandatory sustainability reporting picked up steam as consumers, investors, and civil society in general increasingly demonstrated that they value the social... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

bit. But there’s no question that the rising rates will have some impact on slowing the growth of appreciation. I’m not saying it’s going to eliminate it, but I think it’ll take a little steam out of the sector, which is what the Fed... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

29 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Whence IT Value?

A final explanation is intriguing. It states that new inventions, even manifestly useful ones such as computers, require some "percolation" time before they are productively employed. Studies of the history of steam and electric... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

05 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis

level of rescuing. THE GROUCHO CRITERION “Remember when the Marx Brothers were burning the train to keep it going?” says Steinwender, referring to the notorious scene in Go West where Harpo and the gang chop up the train mid-motion so that Groucho can feed the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

and infrastructure to launch new product lines or businesses, or enter new markets. Industrial Age business innovation's favored producers. The innovations included: Physical or analog production and distribution technologies (machines, railroads, View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

social inequality." Romuald Kepa added: "The invention of the steam engine and resulting shifts in the society are great providers of insight… Luckily, (the) world did not collapse " Others were not so sure that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Oct 2016
What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

years ago, as being as important as the first machine age they attribute to the development of steam power. These are ideas that can expand the potential for growth, if not for jobs and greater economic equality. But on the other hand,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

development and potential consolidation of the household electronic appliance retailing sector. Gome, Suning, and China Paradise, the three largest players in the market, all experienced phenomenal growth, but Gome is slowly losing steam... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

Steam Navigation Company (P&O). Because P&O operated some port terminals in the United States, DP World obtained clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States before P&O shareholders approved the... View Details