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- 25 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
partnerships as catalysts for first-of-a-kind deployments, as well as the vital importance of specialized investors who understand the unique risks, timelines, and technological complexities inherent to climate tech. Overall, the summit... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Layoffs That Don't Break Your Company: Better Approaches to Workforce Transition By: Sucher, Sandra J., and Shalene Gupta Abstract—Today layoffs have become companies’ default response to the challenges created by advances in View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Back at the Ranch
someone how to get a job, make a living on horseback, and take care of cattle. But I think that’s probably the least important part of it,” he allows. The transition from military to civilian life can be a challenging time, he says. Bear... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
influenced not just by the decisions it makes and the assets inside the company, but also by the surrounding business environment in the locations at which the company operates. The business environment shapes the skills, knowledge, and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- January 2025
- Case
Apax Partners: Deciding Whether to Bid for Trader Corp.
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Edward A. Meyer
Apax Partners’ investment committee was schedule to meet on March 21, 2011, to decide whether to invest in Trader Corporation, a Canadian classified advertising business for used automobiles with both print (magazines) and digital (website) distribution. What made this... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Network Effects; Private Equity; Growth Management; Digital Marketing; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; E-commerce; Valuation; Competition; Digital Platforms; Digital Strategy; Digital Transformation; Transition; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Advertising Industry; Auto Industry; Information Industry; Canada; United Kingdom; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
stronger, more durable system, private capital would take the "first loss" in the event of a housing market downturn. After a multiyear transition period, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should wind down. Unlike the past, the... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
of night, you would see the glow from the mills that lined the river,” he recalls. Now Motley sees an entirely new city. Along the river are the offices of medical and technology companies. “Pittsburgh has successfully View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
understanding of what factors likely influence success and failure. Many startups in developed ecosystems eventually enter other markets and understanding constraints can aid this expansion. Additionally, venture capital investing has View Details
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
Consistent with Lerner-Tirole (2004), we find (a) a negative relationship between the extent to which an SSO is oriented to technology sponsors and the concession level required of sponsors and (b) a positive correlation between the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
must be nurtured and the transition to high growth must be managed. Once breakthrough innovations catch hold, growth must be funded and managed to exploit the full value of the opportunity. And finally, incremental innovations must ensure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
are used as a modeling framework for such studies, this data inadequacy can manifest itself as imprecision in the elements of the transition matrix. In this paper, we study how to compute maximal and minimal values for the discounted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
workers, and the city—or private actors—has to invest in resource efficiency. So how can our water, fuel, and transit go further? By having multifamily housing, by having some kind of mass transit, by having a common water extraction and... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
reaping the benefits of FDI (which relate to when FDI will generate growth) and (2) the mechanisms by which FDI creates positive externalities (which relate to how FDI generates growth). Technology and Innovation Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2025
- Blog Post
In-Office, Remote, or Hybrid: Strategies for Success
intentionally. Be deliberate about which technologies you use and how you use them. Establish clear team norms—such as Slack or Teams for quick updates, Zoom for complex discussions, and email for formal communication—and discourage... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
new study of physician offices transitioning to electronic health records (EHRs) used in managing patient care. In general, larger offices in the study that employed EHRs recorded productivity gains, but certain types of smaller practices... View Details
- 19 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
(1). The culprit, however, was not the mammoth coal fired power plant under our feet. In fact, Tata Power equipped Trombay with state-of-the-art air pollution mitigation technology to minimize both NOx and SOx emissions, as well as... View Details
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Finalists | New Venture Competition
Nigerians with affordable financing for clean, reliable energy. We leverage group financing and carbon accounting to lower costs and risk in the energy transition of Nigeria's $14B fuel-based, off-grid generator market. Fluency Hiro... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Creating sustainability transitions will require more than companies taking proactive measures in their own operations and supply chains. Fostering significant change will also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details