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  • Research Summary

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By: Jorge Tamayo
Professor Tamayo’s research focuses on theoretical modeling and structural estimation of firm decision-making and productivity.

Professor Tamayo studies dynamic competition for customer membership. Generally, firms that implement a membership model charge a... View Details
Keywords: Industrial Organization, Industrial Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Management Style; Energy Generation; Performance Efficiency; Market Design; Crime and Corruption; Energy Industry; Energy Industry

    Rowan Clarke

    Rowan Clarke is a PhD candidate at Harvard Business School in the Strategy Unit. He researches entrepreneurship and technology/AI for economic development and social impact. His work assists small business entrepreneurs, and high-growth technology... View Details

    Keywords: energy; energy; energy; energy; energy; energy; energy
    • Career Coach

    Lauren Murphy

    individual leaders as well as senior management teams to improve team alignment with organizational goals. Lauren brings decades of management experience to her coaching work. For 14 years, she was the... View Details
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    • August 2014 (Revised May 2016)
    • Case

    Husk Power

    By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Sid Misra
    In late 2013, Husk Power Systems found itself falling further and further behind plan. The founding CEO had decided to resign. His co-founder is faced with the decision of quitting his corporate job in the US to head to India and help form a new management team. Husk... View Details
    Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Model; Business Startups; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Foreign Direct Investment; International Finance; Globalized Markets and Industries; Crime and Corruption; Employee Relationship Management; Independent Innovation and Invention; Employment; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Skills; Emerging Markets; Social Psychology; Culture; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Africa; India; United States
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    • 26 Jun 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

    the catastrophe damaged several of Fast Retailing’s UNIQLO stores, CEO Tadashi Yanai was intent on the company doing its part to restore a sense of normalcy. Although many other retail stores turned off their lights at night to save on View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Mid-US - Global

    Company, retail giants like Target and Thrive Markets, and health equity partners such as Advocate Health and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. While tackling the challenges in the crowded supplements and energy drinks... View Details
    • December 1983 (Revised July 1988)
    • Case

    General Electric--Thermocouple Manufacturing (A)

    By: David A. Garvin
    GE is considering introducing a "just-in-time" production system to reduce inventory in its thermocouple manufacturing area. The case presents students with a description of the present inventory management system, the production process, and the perspectives of... View Details
    Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Time Management; Production; Supply Chain; Perspective; Energy Industry; Energy Industry
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    • 31 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

    School finance professor Luis Viceira, an expert on investment management and capital markets, offered his views on how this happened, what it means, and how high the Dow may go in the future. Jim Aisner:  Last week the Dow closed above... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Aisner
    • 13 Feb 2020
    • Blog Post

    Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Manufacturing

    The “Know Your Audience” series on the HBS Recruiting Blog highlights trends in recruiting for various industries. Learn more about student interest, effective recruiting strategies, and best practices from HBS staff dedicated to your industry. Meet the Team Kristen... View Details
    Keywords: Manufacturing
    • Web

    Skydeck - Alumni

    year in media Solving the Underemployment Crisis More than half of college grads are underemployed. In this excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, Stephen Moret (MBA 2011) discusses the root causes of this trend—and what policymakers... View Details
    • Program

    OPM Renew

    Summary Whether you attended the Owner/President Management (OPM) program at Harvard Business School last year or many years ago, the excitement of learning and growing at HBS—and collaborating and networking with other entrepreneurial... View Details
    • 05 May 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can

    Grocery bills may be ridiculously high these days, but supply chain problems, energy costs, and inflation aren’t the only factors to blame. New research suggests that companies are raising prices simply because they can. In 2021, US... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • Web

    Curriculum - Business & Environment

    MBA Experience Curriculum 2ms Required Curriculum (1st Year) Cases Environmental opportunities and challenges are embedded in most Required Curriculum courses so that all students understand the importance of the natural environment to their roles as View Details
    • 30 Nov 2021
    • In Practice

    What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

    The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
    Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    In Harmony

    Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea
    • 19 Sep 2023
    • Blog Post

    2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

    breakthrough technology and innovative business models. Audrey's role prior to HBS was a Senior Manager and Acting Zambia Country Director at One Acre Fund. Aman Baboolal (MBA 2024, Section F), Summer Internship: MBA Intern, NextEra View Details
    • April 1988 (Revised May 1992)
    • Case

    Gaz de France

    By: W. Carl Kester
    The treasurer of Gaz de France is an aggressive, proactive manager of his company's liability structure, running one of the largest swap books of any non-financial corporation in the world. Currency futures, interbank forwards, and currency options are also frequently... View Details
    Keywords: Decisions; Borrowing and Debt; Currency Exchange Rate; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Policy; Management; Organizational Structure; Energy Industry; Europe
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    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

    In the half-century since his graduation, Theodore Roosevelt IV (MBA 1972) has earned widespread respect as both a forward-thinking investment banker and an influential activist through his efforts to address climate change and preserve public lands. For much of that... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax
    • November 2023 (Revised March 2024)
    • Case

    Infarm: Betting the (Indoor) Farm on Food Security

    By: Elie Ofek
    In the summer of 2023, the co-founders of Infarm, a controlled environment agriculture (CEA) company, were contemplating a major pivot going forward. While Infarm had successfully shown it could grow over 75 products—mainly herbs, leafy greens and mushrooms—in modular... View Details
    Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Model; Market Entry and Exit; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Transition; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; North America; Toronto; Northeastern United States
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    • 05 Mar 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

    which involve projects by foreign companies to develop and manage large infrastructure projects in Indonesia, the book details the ways such deals can go bad both for the companies and the countries they operate in. It also examines how... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Energy