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- May 1989 (Revised June 1989)
- Case
Commonwealth Edison (B)
Keywords: Utilities Industry
Vietor, Richard H.K. "Commonwealth Edison (B)." Harvard Business School Case 389-211, May 1989. (Revised June 1989.)
- July 1984 (Revised February 1987)
- Teaching Note
Boston Edison: Overload, Teaching Note
Keywords: Utilities Industry
- January 1984 (Revised November 1987)
- Case
Commonwealth Edison (A)
Keywords: Utilities Industry
Vietor, Richard H.K. "Commonwealth Edison (A)." Harvard Business School Case 384-190, January 1984. (Revised November 1987.)
- February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs
By: John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr and Fan Zhao
Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also government policies supporting a rival technology. Wen Yibo has used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major privately... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Service Delivery; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Wastes and Waste Processing; Urban Development; Utilities Industry; China
Macomber, John D., Chad M. Carr, and Fan Zhao. "Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business School Case 211-086, February 2011. (Revised September 2013.)
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Giving women more control over their biological clocks
Reproductive technology pioneer Christy Jones (MBA 2004) founded Extend Fertility in 2004 to enable women to freeze their eggs and then utilize them when the time is right. (Published November 2014) View Details
Lyman Stewart
Prior to starting the Hardison and Stewart Oil Company, the entity that later became Union Oil, Stewart engaged in several unsuccessful business ventures in the oil industry. At Union Oil, however, Stewart thrived as president, investing heavily in new wells throughout... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Frank Phillips
With his brother Lee, Frank Phillips built Phillips Petroleum into a diversified oil company whose businesses encompassed not only crude oil drilling, but also the operation of consumer filling stations and the production of such innovative oil industry equipment as... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Joseph N. Pew
Having begun investing in oil while working in real estate, Pew eventually entered the industry full time, organizing several smaller entities into what became the Sun Oil Company. An innovator himself, Pew developed and patented the first mechanical gas-pumping... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Lucio A. Noto
Noto first concentrated on consolidating and improving efficiency in Mobil's oil, gas and chemical businesses, including trimming bureaucracy at the corporate level. Noto also revamped Mobil's retail gasoline business, being one of the first companies to install such... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Joseph S. Cullinan
In 1913, when Cullinan resigned his presidency, Texaco controlled over 4% of the nation’s oil production. Cullinan had grown Texaco from an initial capitalization of $3 million to one of $30 million with assets of approximately $60 million. A successful risk-taker,... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 30 Mar 2021
Industry Spotlight Series: From Automotive to HBS
Please join us for a virtual panel discussion highlighting Harvard Business School students formerly working in the Automotive Industry. Hear what a day in the life of an HBS student is like, how they plan to utilize their MBA, and maybe... View Details
- 21 Mar 2024
The Value of an MBA: Driving Impact at HBS
Interested in utilizing an MBA to create a lasting societal impact? Hear from the HBS Impact Initiatives as they reflect on how the MBA Program is inspiring innovation at the intersection of business and social change. Hear from current... View Details
Mary Kay Ash
Ash created a successful cosmetics company by and for women by utilizing a direct sales force and creative motivational sales techniques. At the end of its first year, Mary Kay Cosmetics boasted $198,514 in sales and 318 salespeople. By... View Details
Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Visionary of the Year
HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter was named the Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year in 2002 by the Intelligent Community Forum. The award recognizes an individual or group that has taken a leadership role in promoting broadband technology as an essential View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Career Makeover
Maximum utilization of assets on hand is a key to business success. It’s also an operating philosophy for Jackie Davis (MBA ’83), a former executive who’s now a TV personality and interior designer. When Davis does a redecorating... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Political Economy Costly Concessions: An Empirical Framework for Matching with Imperfectly Transferable Utility By: Galichon, Alfred, Scott Duke Kominers, and Simon Weber Abstract—We introduce an empirical framework for models of matching... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
the whole production process, some technologies emerge as the main avenues for tackling this problem, such as green hydrogen, top gas recovery, scrap based EAF and Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS). Carbon Capture, View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Climate Change Optimist
says. Green America’s sustainable supply chain networks provide peer learning, support, and connections to innovations. “I love the market-solution focus of what we do,” says Gravitz, noting that, in recent big utility buys, solar and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe
- 17 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter on America’s Historic Energy Opportunity
A new report from experts Michael E. Porter, David S. Gee, and Gregory J. Pope at Harvard Business School and The Boston Consulting Group outlines a strategic approach for improving United States competitiveness while reducing environmental impact and making progress... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details