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- July 2024 (Revised December 2024)
- Background Note
District Heating: An Overview
By: Willy Shih and Michael W. Toffel
This note provides an overview of district heating: systems in which central plants generate heat that is conveyed by steam or water through a set of insulated pipes to send heat to residential and/or commercial buildings. It describes key elements of the system (heat... View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Energy Efficiency; Energy Storage; Energy Transmission; Construction; Energy; Buildings and Facilities; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Climate Change; Operations; Energy Industry; Denmark; Europe; United States
Shih, Willy, and Michael W. Toffel. "District Heating: An Overview." Harvard Business School Background Note 625-008, July 2024. (Revised December 2024.)
- November 2010
- Teaching Note
Mexico: Crisis and Competitiveness (TN)
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Aldo Musacchio
Teaching Note for 710058. View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
New Virtual Classrooms Expand Digital Learning
deliver programming by then newly launched HBX (now called Harvard Business School Online). Fast forward six years and online learning—and the need for it—has evolved significantly, leading the School to expand and move the operation onto... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
turn, means putting the "mom-and-pop" operations cherished in American lore out of business. Indeed, the creation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882, which put small companies out of business and bureaucratized economic relations, was a... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
Michael Jensen, a finance expert, how what is happening today compares to what transpired in the 1980s. A decade ago, Jensen explains, M&As; were often associated with downsizing and what he describes as "the freeing of equity trapped in old-line, inefficiently managed... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
time. I had worked closely on day-to-day operations with the firm’s founder since 2005, so I was up to speed on most things, including the public offering. But being up to speed on something and owning ultimate responsibility are two... View Details
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “We have been very successful at finding people of color to be operating partners, to be employees at ICV. We've been doing this for two decades. We've had no problem finding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
establishing brand identity, identifying the organizational mission, communicating the meaning of the brand, and leveraging brand values. Organizing Control August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management by Jeffrey R.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
Robinson in 1986 as assistant controller for their international consumer businesses, including bank cards and retail banking. His first task, he recalls, was to "take a look around and advise my boss what his group should be doing... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge of the workforce; the information technology that supports the workforce and links the firm... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Working PapersOrganizational Design and Control across Multiple Markets: The Case of Franchising in the Convenience Store Industry Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract Many companies View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
focuses solely on corporate culture and identity of the new workplace. There's a lecture about the firm's history and another about standard operating procedures. There's a packet of information from human resources, emblazoned with the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
but from Mexico, South Korea, and elsewhere — was coming in at a lower price point than our unionized operations could match,” Chirchirillo recalls. “And many of my OPM classmates were from outside the United States, so I was getting a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Understanding the Digital Frontier
LI AND BERNOFF: Executives can’t afford to turn their backs on social networking. Nothing gives CEOs and marketers instant heartburn more than seeing their hard-won brand equity hijacked by forces beyond their control — too often by... View Details
- Portrait Project
Austin Dirks
doctor's hands worked back and forth in the rhythm and grace of a painter. I could feel my breath beat back against my mask, into my face. My scrub cap began to stick to my forehead with perspiration. Something was wrong. And I was alone. The pacemaker, a device able... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
Summing Up The authors of a recently-published book, Creative Destruction, have more work to do to convince our readers of their primary argument that creative destruction, based on an assumption of discontinuity, is a more effective management principle than View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate goods sector, entrepreneurs must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Meet The Aerospace and Aviation Club
Apart from speaker events, we also visited Boston Logan airport during which students learned about airport operations and had the chance to visit the control tower. Furthermore, we enabled students who are... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
redefining the sector, and McDonald’s wasn’t keeping pace. MORE Growing from Within—Almost 90% of McDonald’s in the US are owned and operated by franchisees. Paulo Pena (MBA 2004) runs the rest. Hear from Kristy Cunningham on the all-day... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
acquisitions. Today, the company Parker leads from its headquarters in Bradenton, Florida, offers a wide range of products to protect people and property, has 6,500 employees, operates in 35 countries, and generates annual sales... View Details