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  • 29 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration
  • October 2010 (Revised August 2012)
  • Case

Harvest: Organic Waste Recycling with Energy Recovery (A)

By: Deishin Lee, Baris Ata and Mustafa H. Tongarlak
This case describes the waste management industry and a clean technology solution for landfill diversion and renewable energy production. The (A) case focuses on the operational characteristics of waste management and waste to energy, as well as the characteristics of... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Logistics; Wastes and Waste Processing; Corporate Finance; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry
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  • 30 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

flexibility in this timeframe and might start demanding flexible work as a long-term solution. Doesn’t making employees work remotely save on utility expenditures? Choudhury: If companies allow workers to live anywhere, they might save... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

http://www.remote-sensing.routledge.com/books/details/9780805862911/ The Social Utility of Feature Creep Authors:Debora V. Thompson and Michael I. Norton Publication:Journal of Marketing Research (forthcoming) Abstract Previous research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

members of the focal social categories, were also less likely to maximize profits when resources were distributed across social category lines. Study 4 showed that the transaction utility of maximizing profits required greater... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This

often look to similar individuals and imitate their actions. This allows them to capitalize on the research others have already done and makes them feel secure through a sense of normalcy. The publicly-held technology company Opower, which services a host of View Details
Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Financial Services
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

Specifically, we examine the impact of the annual July turnover of residents in American teaching hospitals on levels of resource utilization and quality relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. We find that, despite the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

constituents, managers must choose their primary customer—and organize accordingly. A constituent is a person or group that receives utility from the value creation process of the organization and transacts routinely with the organization... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 13 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

procedures of Pratt (2007), including the Nash bargaining procedure, satisfy this. Other prominent efficient procedures do not. In two-agent problems, reducing the feasible set between the solution and one agent's maximum point increases the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jun 2020
  • In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

industry. That said, technology will be most powerfully utilized during the pandemic by those firms who apply it organization-wide to create more nimble, efficient organizations, more capable of managing the factors of production (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 03 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Web Services

ten years. That's a new model for the software industry—think about a ten-year-old PC and what utility value it has—it's a boat anchor. But there are lot of ten-year-old cars that will need service and support." "I would argue... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service
  • 14 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

measurement systems are currently in place and being utilized within the organization? What are the important criteria to the company and its constituencies and stakeholders? What does the company desire to accomplish with the e-commerce... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

module devoted to utilizing customer-operators to improve operations (HBS No. 608-135). Purchase this exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608126 Equity Derivatives Harvard Business School Note 208-117... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 28 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

utilization of ground forces—the personal selling and get-out-the-vote strategy.” "I think this research connects beautifully with a normal business operation within a corporation," says Doug J. Chung, an assistant professor in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 15

perspectives of investors, lenders, and suppliers and shows that inventory turns, a commonly used metric to identify excess inventory, has limitations that reduce its utility for all these stakeholders. This paper presents a new metric,... 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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  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

for monetary gambles, reference points for experiences that are set at more extreme outcomes, leading to concave utility for negative experiences but convex utility for positive experiences. As a result,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jan 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?

name of tracking terrorists that we begin to take it for granted as consumers? In fact, will we one day look back on September 11 as a point in time when data warehousers were able to take a significant step forward in fully utilizing the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

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