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  • December 2023
  • Article

When Should the Off-Grid Sun Shine at Night? Optimum Renewable Generation and Energy Storage Investments

By: Christian Kaps, Simone Marinesi and Serguei Netessine
Globally, 1.5 billion people live off the grid, their only access to electricity often limited to operationally-expensive fossil fuel generators. Solar power has risen as a sustainable and less costly option, but its generation is variable during the day and... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Renewable Energy
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  • 23 Mar 2012
  • HBS Seminar

Dan Kahan, Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at Yale Law School

  • 22 Jun 2022
  • Book

Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

my 40 years of working as a psychologist and a trainer of coaches and counselors. The question I asked was: “What issues are always present when individuals are faced with major career and life decisions?” I arrived at an heuristic that I... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

integrating these elements, the framework allows entrepreneurs to make more informed decisions about initial paths and subsequent pivots, moving beyond simple heuristics to a more comprehensive understanding of tradeoffs and relative... View Details
  • Web

Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

heuristics and apply research-based personas and behavior models to make innovations easier to adopt. Highlights Match Mental Models, Reduce Complexity, and Prevent Errors Developing Research-Based Personas Anticipate Needs, Recognize... View Details
  • 07 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

do not act as completely rational agents. (We imply no offense in this). In response to the complexity of the supply chains, managers limit the problem space, whether consciously or unconsciously, by selecting a limited set of inputs to inform their decisions, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

requires a spirit of inquiry and openness, patience, and a tolerance for ambiguity. However, most managers admire and are rewarded for decisiveness, efficiency, and action rather than for deep reflection and painstaking analysis. Third, psychologists have spent decades... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
  • 08 Feb 2021
  • Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

distinction between “System 1” thinking, in which we make snap judgements and use heuristics rather than logic to make choices about our behavior, and “System 2” thinking, in which we look at the world realistically and rationally. Time... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 18 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

that she needed to look at gender stereotyping as just another heuristic that people employ during the decision-making process. Such heuristics are often subconscious, and though they help people make... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Research Is the Foundation

heuristics used by early-stage investors in high-potential ventures,” says Professor Ramana Nanda, who serves as the project’s co-director with finance professors Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner. The work will catalyze a range of... View Details
  • Web

Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business - Course Catalog

wrong logic when thinking about prices and pricing. In particular, they often fail to think strategically about the challenge. Rather, one witnesses collections of tactics held together by questionable assumptions and crude heuristics... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

heuristic that are used to determine optimal stocking levels for cash and electronic value given an agent's historical demand. When tested with a large sample of transaction-level data provided by an East African mobile operator, both the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

always present when individuals are faced with major career and life decisions?” I arrived at an heuristic that I refer to as the Four Elements model, which looks at four dimensions that are archetypal in that they are always present at... View Details
  • 29 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

always present when individuals are faced with major career and life decisions?” I arrived at an heuristic that I refer to as the Four Elements model, which looks at four dimensions that are archetypal in that they are always present at... View Details
  • 06 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

fees. My heuristic for these types of engagements is to assess whether they are performing a part-time role you’d otherwise fill with a full-time employee (FTE) if you could find them. These engagements should be time-boxed and outcomes... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • 21 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

where they might be applied. We want to make common academic techniques more accessible to practitioners and to encourage their use in solving real business problems. Q: Many managers continue to use traditional methods for allocating marketing resources, such as View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non-economic factors and heuristics rather than existing industrial conditions. Relocating firms increased the likelihood of incumbent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 23

policing themselves. We investigate whether self-reporting can reliably indicate effective self-policing efforts that might provide opportunities for enforcement efficiencies. We find that regulators used self-reports of legal violations as a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

widely used? Merton: One answer is, simply, that it filled a need. It wasn't intellectual interest that made people want to apply it. In the 1970s, profit margins to options dealers were driven down, competition was going up, and options investors no longer could... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

importance. The paper explores how this heuristic can produce erroneous inferences and influence broader beliefs about decision-makers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54771 forthcoming RAND Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman