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- May 2022
- Teaching Plan
FirstLight Power – Pumped Storage for the (New) Ages
By: Jurgen Weiss
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 722-029. View Details
- December 2019
- Technical Note
Technical Note on Bayesian Statistics and Frequentist Power Calculations
By: Amitabh Chandra and Ariel Dora Stern
This Technical Note provides an introduction to Bayes’ Rule and the statistical intuition that stems from it. In this note, we review the concepts that underlie Bayesian statistics, and we offer several simple mathematical examples to illustrate applications of Bayes’... View Details
Chandra, Amitabh, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Technical Note on Bayesian Statistics and Frequentist Power Calculations." Harvard Business School Technical Note 620-032, December 2019.
- March 2019
- Supplement
Accounting for Nuclear Power Provisions at RWE, Instructor Spreadsheet
By: Jonas Heese
- 2018
- Chapter
Firms in Firmament: Hydrocarbons and the Circulation of Power
By: Rawi Abdelal
Abdelal, Rawi. "Firms in Firmament: Hydrocarbons and the Circulation of Power." In Protean Power: Exploring the Uncertain and Unexpected in World Politics, edited by Peter J. Katzenstein and Lucia A. Seybert, 147–165. Cambridge Studies in International Relations. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- September 6, 2011
- Article
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
By: Bill George
Keywords: Leadership
George, Bill. "The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (September 6, 2011).
- February 2001 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
Competitive Dynamics in Home Video Games (B): Nintendo Power
Tells the story of Nintendo's revival of the home video game industry in the mid-1980s and its dominance of the market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Strategic issues addressed include the creation of value by sparking dormant demand and the capture of value... View Details
Coughlan, Peter J. "Competitive Dynamics in Home Video Games (B): Nintendo Power." Harvard Business School Case 701-092, February 2001. (Revised June 2001.)
- 15 Sep 2022
- News
The Power of Weak Ties in Gaining New Employment
- 1 Mar 2010
- Conference Presentation
Language Mandates, Power & Emotions in Globally Distributed Teams
By: Tsedal Neeley
- Web
Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Power and Influence for Positive Impact Course Number 2055 Professor Julie Battilana Fall; Q1; 1.5 credits Paper This course aims to change the way you understand and see power. Power is... View Details
- Research Summary
Microwedges: Challenging power one small opening at a time [Dissertation, job market paper]
Based on a 31-month qualitative inductive study of multidisciplinary change teams, I introduce the concept of the “microwedge”—a small action or series of actions by team members that allows the team to examine their own assumptions so that they can begin to engage... View Details
- 2012
- Book
Talk, Inc. : How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the "magic"--the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement--that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture; Social and Collaborative Networks; Spoken Communication
Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. Talk, Inc. How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power to change nuclear waste into cost-efficient energy
overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Although Wilcox did not know it at the time, that disaster would lead him to his next business—Transatomic Power—which he hopes will transform the energy sector. “I’m not sure how the... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
Harvard Business School Professor J. Gunnar Trumbull balks at the ubiquitous idea that the concentrated power of a few billionaires controls public policy and government regulation. Exaggeration of the impact of big business on public... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
The Health Care Conference and the Convening Power of HBS
other business leaders who were eager to support the Health Care Club and Conference team. I chose to come to HBS partly because of its convening power—its ability to bring incredibly smart, successful, kind, and inspiring people together. The Conference is just one... View Details
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The Power of Paradox: Some Recent Developments in Interactive Epistemology
This survey describes a central paradox of game theory, viz. the Paradox of Backward Induction (BI). The paradox is that the BI outcome is often said to follow from basic game-theoretic principles--specifically, from the assumption that the players are rational. Yet,... View Details
- March 2008 (Revised June 2008)
- Case
The Broad Institute: Applying the Power of Genomics to Medicine
By: Vicki L. Sato and Rachel Gordon
In June 2003, Harvard University and MIT announced an unprecedented partnership to create a biomedical institute, The Broad Institute. The culture of the Broad centered on science, and those involved considered it to be at the edge of the scientific frontier. In just... View Details
Keywords: Education; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Genetics
Sato, Vicki L., and Rachel Gordon. "The Broad Institute: Applying the Power of Genomics to Medicine." Harvard Business School Case 608-114, March 2008. (Revised June 2008.)
- March 2001 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Power to the States: "Fiscal Wars" for FDI in Brazil
By: Laura Alfaro, Yasheng Huang and Marios S. Kalochoritis
On January 6, 1999, Itamar Franco, the governor of the state of Minas Gerais, the second-largest state in Brazil, declared a 90-day moratorium on its debt payment to the federal government. The announcement triggered a run on the Brazilian currency, the Real, and... View Details
Alfaro, Laura, Yasheng Huang, and Marios S. Kalochoritis. Power to the States: "Fiscal Wars" for FDI in Brazil. Harvard Business School Case 701-079, March 2001. (Revised February 2004.)
- Article
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Electric Utilities, and the Power of Competition
By: Willis Emmons
Emmons, Willis. "Franklin D. Roosevelt, Electric Utilities, and the Power of Competition." Journal of Economic History 53, no. 4 (December 1993): 880–907.
- 2002
- Book
The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876-1932
By: Noel Maurer
Maurer, Noel. The Power and the Money: The Mexican Financial System, 1876-1932. Social Science History. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.