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  • 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
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    F. Warren McFarlan

    Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at... View Details

    Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; nonprofit industry

      Justine Boudou

      Justine Boudou is a doctoral student in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) unit at Harvard Business School.

      She is primarily interested in the economics of science and innovation. Justine holds a MSc from the engineering school... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; health care; pharmaceuticals
      • 2025
      • Working Paper

      Impact Investing and Worker Outcomes

      By: Josh Lerner, Markus Lithell and Gordon M. Phillips
      Impact investors claim to distinguish themselves from traditional venture capital and growth equity investors by also pursuing environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives. Whether they successfully do so in practice is unclear. We use confidential Census... View Details
      Keywords: ESG; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Private Equity; Venture Capital; Wages
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      • 20 Dec 2024
      • News

      Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024

      To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
      Keywords: Margie Kelley
      • December 2017 (Revised March 2019)
      • Case

      Armarium: Luxury Fashion Brands for Rent

      By: Jill Avery, David Fubini, Natasha Dossa and Devon Stewart
      Armarium, a two-sided online platform that offered consumers the opportunity to rent the most coveted, current season high fashion clothing and accessories from the top global luxury brands, had emerged from its first sales season with two distinct customer segments:... View Details
      Keywords: Brand Management; Retailing; Sharing Economy; Luxury Brand; Ecommerce; Startup; Fashion; Brand Positioning; Customer Acquisition; Internet Marketing; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Business Startups; Luxury; Consumer Behavior; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Media; E-commerce; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States; North America
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        Lauren H. Cohen

        Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

        Keywords: asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management; asset management
        • 04 Feb 2002
        • Research & Ideas

        How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life

        by asserting that a brand might fit better in one company's portfolio than in another's. But a marketing professional would probably explain the improved fit in terms of distribution economies or... View Details
        Keywords: by John Deighton; Food & Beverage
        • 18 Apr 2011
        • Research & Ideas

        It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works

        wheel” In a paper forthcoming in Organization Science, professor Tsedal B. Neeley and coauthors delve into why many managers tend to send the same message, over and over, via multiple media to team members. At first blush, this strategy... View Details
        Keywords: by Kim Girard
        • February 2013 (Revised February 2013)
        • Case

        Wayne Ferrari: iAutomation at a Crossroads

        By: Jim Sharpe and Michael Norris
        Wayne Ferrari has bridged the gap between being an independent entrepreneur and a "professional manager." After selling his business to a Private Equity (PE) firm, Ferrari takes on the role of CEO and with their support implements a roll-up strategy to attain growth... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Leveraged Buyouts; Roll-up; Career Planning; Acquisitions; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Pricing Strategy; Pricing Structure; Acquisition; Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Distribution; Integration; System; Electronics Industry; Distribution Industry; United States
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          Rohit Deshpande

          Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

          Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; airline; banking; beauty products; beverage; financial services; home video games; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; tourism; video games
          • January 2010
          • Teaching Note

          Youth Villages: The challenges of scaling a nonprofit with government as the primary funding source (TN)

          By: Allen S. Grossman
          Teaching Note for [309007]. View Details
          Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Behavior; Cost; Growth and Development Strategy; Age; Business and Government Relations
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          • July 2018
          • Case

          Hironobu Tsujiguchi and His Sweet Revolution

          By: Boris Groysberg and Naoko Jinjo
          Hironobu Tsujiguchi, a Japanese chocolatier, had chosen an unusual path to success as a pastry chef. Instead of spending most of his time in his kitchen and focusing on one or two confectionery categories like most pastry chefs, he chose to work on diverse projects and... View Details
          Keywords: Relevance; Entrepreneurship; Diversification; Personal Development and Career; Decision Making; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan
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          • November 2024 (Revised January 2025)
          • Case

          Balancing Impact: Modeling the Future at British International Investment

          By: Shawn Cole and Jonah Zahnd
          In 2022, British International Investment (BII), the £8.1 billion development finance arm of the British government, implemented a new impact measurement system called the Impact Score to align its financial and impact objectives systematically. The tool was designed... View Details
          Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Alignment; United Kingdom
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            David A. Moss

            David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale.  In 1992-1993, he served as a... View Details

            Keywords: banking; credit card; federal government; financial services; health care; insurance industry; state government
            • September 2017 (Revised January 2025)
            • Case

            Dinesh Moorjani and Hatch Labs

            By: Christopher Stanton, Shikhar Ghosh, Allison Ciechanover and Jeff Huizinga
            This case is about Tinder. It discusses different business models and ways of structuring the initial team. With a $6 million investment from IAC/Interactive in 2010, Dinesh Moorjani founded Hatch Labs to build mobile apps. His mission was to attract entrepreneurial... View Details
            Keywords: Returns; Incubator; Mobile App; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Model; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Talent and Talent Management; Valuation; Equity; Finance; United States; North America
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              Jaylon Sherrell

              Jaylon Sherrell is a doctoral student in the Micro Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School.

              Leveraging qualitative and quantitative approaches, Jaylon has gained experience working on multiple research projects, as well as... View Details
              • July 2021 (Revised December 2021)
              • Case

              Pershing Square's Pandemic Trade (A)

              By: Emil N. Siriwardane, Luis M. Viceira, Dean Xu and Lucas Baker
              This case explores the decision that Bill Ackman, CEO and founder of the hedge fund Pershing Square Capital, was considering in late February 2020 about hedging the exposure of the fund’s portfolio from the potential financial fallout ensuing from an extreme event like... View Details
              Keywords: Health Pandemics; Financial Liquidity; Cost Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Risk Management
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              • November–December 2014
              • Article

              Fairness and Efficiency in Multiportfolio Optimization

              By: Dan A. Iancu and Nikolaos Trichakis
              We deal with the problem faced by a portfolio manager in charge of multiple accounts. We argue that because of market impact costs, this setting differs in several subtle ways from the classical (single account) case, with the key distinction being that the performance... View Details
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                Jason T. Pananos

                Jason Pananos is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Department.  Jason currently teaches and was the co-creator of a second-year field course titled “Value Creation in Small and Medium Firms”.  Jason is also an active collaborator and guest... View Details