Capacity - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order

reported battery-storage capacity has quadrupled nationwide in the last four years, helping communities meet peak demand and providing resilience in severe weather. “Our utility has two high-capacity batteries in New York on Long Island,... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

for building and financing new ventures, and make your entrepreneurial dreams a reality. 4 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Enroll by March 20 $1,850 Certificate Disruptive Strategy Professors Rory McDonald & Clayton Christensen Strengthen your View Details

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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

Advisors, an employee, or a consultant. Faculty members can provide referrals to investors, firms, individuals, or other organizations as long as the referral does not represent a conflict of interest or result in personal financial gain. Faculty members serving in any... View Details

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

where they can and work together with NGOs and governments, recognizing that they have the capacity to jointly enact solutions.” The core expectation that consumers have of brands in any situation, but particularly in a crisis, is that... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Leaders everywhere are making decisions about how their organizations should and shouldn't use generative AI tools; first, they must know how they could and couldn't. "Storrowed" is an HBS-built exercise for increasing capacity with AI... View Details

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

assets by 2024. In the UK, we have built five wind farms and are now at the rate of building two large wind farms a year. We will have an installed capacity of 400MW by 2025 and hopefully double that by 2027 with new developments. My aim... View Details

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

recovery. He explained that during the recession suppliers would also be laying off workers, which limited their capacity to respond once the recession ended. Honeywell made arrangements—during the Great Recession—to be “first in line”... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

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Managing Human Capital

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

the Growing Diverse Housing Developer program, a highly selective national initiative led by a consortium of CDFIs that aims to increase the capacity of developers who identify as Black, indigenous, or people of color. The program aims to... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

government, which included the closure of schools and offices and strict safety regulations for the reopening phase such as increased distance between tables and seats and capacity reduction. Canteen’s CEO decided to use the time to... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details

2012
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Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours

By: Robert C. Pozen

In "Extreme Productivity," Pozen reveals the secrets to workplace productivity and high performance. His book is for anyone feeling overwhelmed by an existing workload—facing myriad competing demands and multiple time-sensitive projects. Offering antidotes to a... View Details

Keywords: Productivity; Performance Productivity; Performance Capacity

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November 1979 (Revised July 1986)
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Boise Cascade: Manufactured Housing Division, Lafayette Region (A)

By: W. Earl Sasser

Keywords: Operations; Performance Capacity; Planning

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1992
Book

Performance Measurement, Evaluation, and Incentives

By: W. J. Bruns Jr.

Keywords: Performance Capacity; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives

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June 1998 (Revised January 2002)
Teaching Note

Baker Precision Instruments, Inc., TN

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Donald Rosenfield

Teaching Note for (9-687-052). View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development; Production; Decisions; Technology; Planning; Performance Capacity; Management; Manufacturing Industry

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September 1991 (Revised November 1993)
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Snake River Steel

By: Steven C. Wheelwright

Keywords: Performance Capacity; Performance Improvement; Steel Industry

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February 1984 (Revised March 1991)
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Sof-Optics, Inc. (B)

Involves the introduction of a technology which almost completely eliminates direct labor for a major segment of the product line. The technology is unproven though, and requires managing the learning process. The teaching objective is to review the differences in... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Change Management; Production; Performance Capacity

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2009
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Broadening Focus: Spillovers, Complementarities and Specialization in the Hospital Industry

By: Jonathan R. Clark and Robert S. Huckman

The long-standing argument that focused operations outperform others stands in contrast to claims about the benefits of broader operational scope. The performance benefits of focus are typically attributed to reduced complexity, lower uncertainty, and the development... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Performance Capacity; Diversification; Health Industry

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