Publications

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

an organization where employees are expending their energies in a number of divergent and uncoordinated directions." Leaders need to ask whether they articulate a clear vision and, just as importantly, whether their key employees can... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

November 2023 (Revised October 2024)
Supplement

Accounting Outages at Plug Power? (C)

By: Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli and James Barnett

Set in June 2023, the C case explores Plug Power’s recovery from its financial restatements, how it benefited from government subsidies, and new strategic alliances. View Details

Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Financial Reporting; Ethics; Finance; Management; Social Enterprise; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Europe

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

attention and especially energy around speculation and trading—this gives an entrepreneur more time to focus and actually develop their product carefully without constantly having to face the market. Gazette: In November, the global... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

board performance even more difficult. Effective boards are those that take the initiative to design clear and focused forward-looking agendas, concentrating board energy on a company's specific value drivers, and then employing tools and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

20 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: December 20

stereotype-incongruent information. Implications for impression formation are discussed. Inducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Publication:Journal of Industrial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

July 2022 (Revised September 2022)
Case

Birla Carbon Egypt: Building Soft Power in a Foreign Country

By: Jeremy Friedman and Malini Sen

Birla Carbon, a flagship business of the nearly $60-billion global conglomerate and India-headquartered Aditya Birla Group (ABG), is one of the world's top manufacturers and suppliers of high-quality carbon black. The largest among its 16 manufacturing plants is Birla... View Details

22 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

a formal deal sourcing model? What resources and skills would be necessary to add to the alternative investment team? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218025-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-021 Mytrah Energy No... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

packages and devices via a software bill of materials. In April 2018, the leaders of the US Congress House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to the Linux Foundation, acknowledging the critical importance of... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

08 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

in Business, Energy and Environment, held in Harvard's Innovation Lab. "It's a question of who will make money and which business models are effective." Although the definitive answer to that question remains to be seen,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Energy

January 2020
Case

SK Group: Social Progress Credits

By: George Serafeim, Ethan Rouen and David Freiberg

SK Group was one of the largest companies South Korea. A family-run conglomerate consisting of around 120 subsidiaries and employing more than 100,000, SK was tightly knit into the fabric of Korean society. SK viewed their future success as contingent upon the strength... View Details

04 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

million times. I have learned a lot from the many, many conversations that have emerged around the talk. Some of these conversations have made me hopeful, but most have made me realize how far we must go to meet society’s urgent need for both more View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Energy

15 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 15

market-listed and privately held firms in the United States using a rich new data source on private firms. Listed firms invest less and are less responsive to changes in investment opportunities compared to observably similar, matched private firms, especially in View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

reasons: poor management, industry disruption, economic recessions, technological change, uncontrollable external shocks, including the current pandemic. And when the underlying problem is severe enough, even the remedies available in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

1988
Book

Innovation and Competition: The Global Management of Petrochemical Products

By: Robert B. Stobaugh

Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Energy Industry; Energy Industry

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24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

change? Harvard Business School faculty share their thoughts. The desire for certainty about the future price of carbon is not new, and it's not unique to small or green-leaning businesses. Duke Energy argues that renewable and clean... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Energy

May 2004
Article

The Case for International Coordination of Electricity Regulation: Evidence from the Measurement of Efficiency in South America

A decade of experience has shown that monitoring the performance of public and private monopolies is the hardest part of electricity sector reform in South America—because operators control most of the information needed for effective regulation. South American... View Details

Keywords: Information; Mathematical Methods; Monopoly; Globalization; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; South America