Utilities - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 19

dominance, with income. Given familiar functional form assumptions on utility and the distributions of ability and preferences, a simple statistic for the effect of preference heterogeneity on marginal tax rates is derived. Numerical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2010 (Revised January 2014)
Case

Water Shortage and Property Investing in Mexico City

By: John D. Macomber, Regina Garcia-Cuellar and Griffin James

A commercial property company evaluates water risks including the government's ability to remedy, the company's operating exposure and mitigation, and whether to relocate because of water risk. A real estate fund manager assesses investment prospects in Mexico City in... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Investment; Risk Management; Infrastructure; Privatization; Business and Government Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Mexico City

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23 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 23

unobserved program attributes. Our focus is on the network television industry, in which the products are television shows. We estimate a model that allows us to distinguish between the direct effect of advertising on utility and its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

on the role of the families controlling these groups focuses on the mechanisms of family intervention in company management that are effective in creating value. In another project with HBS assistant professor Jan W. Rivkin that utilizes... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

drilling industry slumps in 2009. Lower oil prices lead oil companies to reduce drilling budgets, and rig utilization falls from essentially 100% to 70% in some markets. Day rates—the prices paid for a rig's services—fall by as much as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

Northwestern University and Teresa Rokos of the University of Southern California, appears in the September issue of Health Affairs. “I’m really worried about what’s happened to our drug prices and the incentives we have embedded in our system to encourage high prices... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical

01 Feb 2017
What Do You Think?

Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

self-driving vehicle combined with information technology designed to make driving more productive, drivers less essential, and the utilization of vehicles more and more efficient. Let’s agree that it is important that a minimum base of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

17 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

forever? Not necessarily. “What it really shows is that whatever firms are doing right now, they could do better by eliminating discretion,” she says. But that doesn’t mean there might not be superior ways companies could better utilize... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

however, before the two trends converge, and we will start broadcasting personal information automatically as we go through our day. As soon as Facebook develops appropriate algorithms to deliver the right social information to the right people and demonstrates their... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

04 Aug 2006
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

terms "a culture unfiltered by economic scarcity." In the Long Tail, money is made by such things as avoiding inventory, producing to order, letting customers do the work, pricing creatively and flexibly to various customers, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

to raise additional capital. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53962 forthcoming Games and Economic Behavior Strategy-Proofness of Worker-Optimal Matching with Continuously Transferable Utility By:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

humans. It is undermined by any company that tries to justify decisions based on market norms . Academics and training alone will not create leaders. Life creates leaders.” Bill C., in pointing to corporate governance as an issue, said that “Leadership will continue to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

04 Feb 2015
What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

to several of the responses. As Carl X. Parks put it, "Organizations can utilize tools from Google's best practices to enhance or redevelop their own (where applicable). But as a whole, this may not always be directly transferable to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue

You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt; Energy; Utilities

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

18 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Loubna Bouamane; Utilities; Utilities

11 Mar 2009
HBS Case

The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine

In a virtual replay of events this past January, in 2006 Russia's energy giant Gazprom cut off its supply of natural gas to Ukraine's energy company in the depths of winter. The move confirmed the fears of many in the West that the wounded Russian bear, smarting from... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Utilities; Utilities

09 Jan 2008
Working Paper Summaries

A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism

Keywords: by Rafael M. Di Tella, Juan Dubra & Robert MacCulloch; Utilities; Utilities

05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

Foreign investment in developing countries has always involved an element of risk. Just ask Verizon Communications, which could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in Venezuela should President Hugo Chávez follow through with plans announced in January to nationalize... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Utilities; Utilities