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- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
cameras are almost expendable devices, offering much less quality but good enough to be incorporated into cell phones and PDAs reaching mass markets. Solar cells met limited success as alternative energy sources to the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
tempered with great caution," says Chakravorti. "The entrepreneurs who can capture the limited resources have the potential to do well. Shortage and adversity are powerful stimuli for focusing the mind." At HBS, Chakravorti... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
electric systems—used in remote power and emerging grid-connected markets. The PV modules produced by Evergreen Solar incorporate proprietary crystalline silicon technology known as String Ribbon. In 1996,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire way to strengthen the economy, improve society, and provide endless opportunities for entrepreneurs. Big opportunities. But modernization of the... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
at the Switch? Frank V. Cespedes and Diane BadameHarvard Business School Case 913-505 PV Technologies, Inc. is an industry-leading manufacturer of photovoltaic inverters used to convert the direct current output of solar panels into... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
targeted firms. These results suggest a need to check the power of NPEs through changes in U.S. IP policy, in particular to screen out trolling early in the litigation process. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
the return predictability. In addition, we find that sell-side analysts are subject to these same information processing constraints, as their forecast revisions of easy-to-analyze firms predict their future revisions of more complicated firms. The Growing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
collaborative tasks from writing assignments to playing digital instruments. At the same time it needed to address constraints such as the lack of electrical power in many remote rural areas—a problem it solves in several ways. Kids can... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
projects, and whether those projects are going to deliver environmental benefits.” The projects include efforts to create alternative energy by building solar panels and wind turbines, as well as projects to improve water efficiency,... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
conditions for both lagged dependent and predetermined explanatory variables in estimation. Furthermore, we show that conventional tests to detect serial correlation have weak power and can be misleading, resulting in a misuse of moment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
pricing mechanism, capitalism must have the administrative capability to regulate the behavior of economic actors within those markets and the political capability to redesign their institutions; regulation and the design of market frameworks require the visible hand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
products like the Kindle e-reader, high-end servers, solar panels, and the batteries that will power the next generation of automobiles. To rebuild the commons and restore its wealth-generating machine will... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
that were more responsible and sustainable as well as how these strategies have faced constraints, trade-offs, and challenges of legitimacy. The industries covered range from sustainable finance and solar energy to organic food and wine,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
or relax. There are also important environmental benefits—no local emissions, flexible power sources, and reduced energy consumption thanks to lightweight vehicles and automated guidance to prevent unnecessary starts and stops. All this... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
impact investment funds to achieve significant financial returns to scale. This case allows for a competitive analysis of DBL's investment strategy as it seeks to deploy $400m, as well as the opportunity to evaluate a specific investment in a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
results suggest for-profit insurers are likelier than not-for-profit insurers to exercise market power when they possess it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55635 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne