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  • 24 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

and capacity utilization is high. But we suspect that a third and potentially quite strong effect is the uncertainty that is created by government involvement. Q: These findings present something of a dilemma for public policymakers who... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

when it comes to those much-maligned golden parachutes. Ferri sees say on pay as a tool utilized "quite judiciously" in the past. "There's no evidence that the process was hijacked by special interests. And it works quite... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • 02 May 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

of a study cited in the column that associated companies utilizing mechanisms for paying attention to "emerging customers" with the fostering of "disruptive technologies" raised some eyebrows. As Christophe Meili put... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

on the role of the families controlling these groups focuses on the mechanisms of family intervention in company management that are effective in creating value. In another project with HBS assistant professor Jan W. Rivkin that utilizes... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

Harvard Business School Case 817-044 Reaching Beyond Your Organization: Empowering Innovation Forward-thinking established companies utilize new routes for external innovation with start-ups and crowds. The reading reviews strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2016
  • First Look

May 10, 2016

the Challenges of Distributed Generation American Electric Power, like most utilities in the U.S. is currently exposed to distributed generation and the problem of net-metering. Solar installations in particular have been heavily... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures. Methods: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database, we identified patients who underwent isolated CABG (n=3726), AVR (n=1626), MV repair (n=731),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

marketing are construed exclusively in terms of how choices deviate from utility maximization principles as a function of how choices are presented (e.g., framing, sequence, composition). This limits our understanding of a range of other... View Details
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

influential, and industry less influential, than we commonly assume. How Early Adoption Has Increased Wealth—Until Now Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract Societies that are better at View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2020
  • Article

Synergistic Value in Vertically Integrated Power-to-Gas Energy Systems

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
In vertically integrated energy systems, integration frequently entails operational gains that must be traded off against the requisite cost of capacity investments. In the context of the model analyzed in this study, the operational gains are subject to inherent... View Details
Keywords: Vertical Integration; Volatility; Capital Investment; Capacity Management; Renewable Energy; Green Hydrogen; Decarbonization; Carbon Emissions; Environment; Energy; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Management; Environmental Sustainability; Investment; Decision Making; Operations; Technological Innovation; Green Technology; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
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  • 26 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

shot—even when their company offers free shots to employees on-site. A few years ago, a team of researchers tackled that problem with field research. At the symposium, one of the researchers, John Beshears, described study, in which more than 3,000 employees of a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

drilling industry slumps in 2009. Lower oil prices lead oil companies to reduce drilling budgets, and rig utilization falls from essentially 100% to 70% in some markets. Day rates—the prices paid for a rig's services—fall by as much as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

Northwestern University and Teresa Rokos of the University of Southern California, appears in the September issue of Health Affairs. “I’m really worried about what’s happened to our drug prices and the incentives we have embedded in our system to encourage high prices... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 01 Feb 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

self-driving vehicle combined with information technology designed to make driving more productive, drivers less essential, and the utilization of vehicles more and more efficient. Let’s agree that it is important that a minimum base of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
  • 17 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

forever? Not necessarily. “What it really shows is that whatever firms are doing right now, they could do better by eliminating discretion,” she says. But that doesn’t mean there might not be superior ways companies could better utilize... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment
  • 03 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

however, before the two trends converge, and we will start broadcasting personal information automatically as we go through our day. As soon as Facebook develops appropriate algorithms to deliver the right social information to the right people and demonstrates their... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
  • 04 Aug 2006
  • What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

terms "a culture unfiltered by economic scarcity." In the Long Tail, money is made by such things as avoiding inventory, producing to order, letting customers do the work, pricing creatively and flexibly to various customers, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 10

various factors potentially influencing ORT utilization, the case allows students to analyze the possible causes of low ORT utilization and potential measures to address them. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Jurgen's research focuses on the challenges and opportunites to the energy sector created by technological change and externalities, in particular those associated with greenhouse gas emissons. Specific areas of interest include the development of potential pathways to... View Details
Keywords: Alternative Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Disruptive Innovation; Market Design; Strategic Planning; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Adoption; Sustainable Cities; Business Strategy; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry
  • 03 Dec 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

governments to influence choices in ways that encourage choosers to make decisions in their best interest. They call it "libertarian paternalism." This involves utilizing "nudges" such as the wording of choices in ways... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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