Filter Results:
(777)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(777)
- People (2)
- News (183)
- Research (459)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (196)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(777)
- People (2)
- News (183)
- Research (459)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (6)
- Faculty Publications (196)
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
innovations from industry outsiders who saw economic opportunities where others didn’t—and how these mainstream firms had no choice but to innovate themselves. New models were tried: some succeeded, some failed. Commercial markets turned innovations into valuable View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
Partners, a midstream oil and natural gas pipeline company, have joined forces to turn waste heat to power (WHP) at four sites in the United States. Construction on the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
for Shell Oil until enrolling at HBS to broaden his skills and career options. “For me,” he says, “HBS was a step toward rebuilding the respect our family had enjoyed in Poland before the devastation of the... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
decisions are driven by a tradeoff between managers' pecuniary benefits of coordinating production and their private benefits of operating in preferred ways. Integration generates more output than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
materials to how the products were used and ultimately disposed of by consumers. Unilever had calculated that consumer use accounted for more than two-thirds of greenhouse gas... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
work we have been doing here at Troy Capital. I’d like to think it doesn’t only highlight my individual accomplishments, but more so what we have all done as a team. Personally, I hope it serves as an example for others. Any success that I have had has been the View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Web
Transportation - Business & Environment
Confronting Climate Change Transportation Transportation is the fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions The transport sector accounts for about 14% of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
and compare these with prior life cycle data for biopolymers as well as other fibers, and we find that nanoclay production results in lower energy use View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
worldwide, once employed 600,000 Americans alone and estimates it will employ only 86,000 in its U.S. operations by 2008. And in another telling numbers game, highly profitable Toyota has announced it will... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the U.K. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
"fallacies" that sometimes enter into discussions of art in relation to money. This, in turn, leads us to propose a framework to support more productive discussion and to describe a direction for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
Eacho, left, and Minnick (Getty Images) Congress is at a standstill over carbon. One side wants to regulate emissions as a pollutant; the other fears that any move to regulate oil View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
Amos L. Beaty
In 1907, Beaty became the attorney for Texaco, and was able to secure new laws, which smoothed the way for the company’s entry into the Oklahoma oil fields. In 1920, Beaty was elected president of the... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
long-distance oil and gas pipelines are guided by modern regulations and an infrastructure blueprint,” Skelly explains. “But existing US electric... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
decompose the productivity decrease that arises from taxation, we estimate that 40% is due to the lower net wage and the remaining 60% to tax aversion. This tax aversion affects labor supply more on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
generation. When you have an oil company saying that, by 2030, one-third of all car sales are going to be electric vehicles [EVs]—an oil company actually admitting that to themselves View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
citizens, and corporations to work collaboratively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a task that requires information on companies' emissions levels, risks, and reduction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
South America. In the first year of his administration, he has nationalized the oil and gas industry, created a constituent assembly to rewrite the constitution, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
holding across a wide range of industries and controlling for factors such as productivity and related technological capabilities. The results are explicated by a framework I... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace