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01 Apr 2000
News

Help in the Vicinity

bricks-and-mortar location that offers it. Vicinity's services are currently utilized by more than 250 diverse companies, including Barnes & Noble, McDonald's, and Nike. In an interview with the San Jose Mercury News (January 17, 2000),... View Details

25 Apr 2024
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Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist

opportunities are wide ranging including sanitation, water pipe repair and replacement, wastewater treatment, increasing access to and efficiency of irrigation, utility control and monitoring software. The list is very long indeed. Tom is... View Details

15 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

neo-classical economics view that behavior is driven by—and reflective of—hedonic utility is challenged by psychologists' demonstrations of cases in which actions do not merely reveal preferences but rather create them. In this view,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Apr 2016
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3 Reasons Why Company Conversations Might Be Right For Your Organization

to learn more about the current priorities of your organization and where an MBA skill set would be especially useful in assisting with your strategy. Flexibility: Organizations can utilize this time in a format that works best for them.... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Olivia Staffon Archives | Social Enterprise

of utilizing business practices for land management issues. Scouring... INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Rent Out Your Ride

CLARK: A bright idea for utilizing untold idle capacity, America’s privately owned autos. It’s estimated that a privately owned midsize car costs about $8,000 a year to own and operate. In cities, it also spends most of its time parked... View Details

Keywords: car sharing; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

17 Jul 2018
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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

18 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Loubna Bouamane; Utilities; Utilities

11 Mar 2009
HBS Case

The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine

In a virtual replay of events this past January, in 2006 Russia's energy giant Gazprom cut off its supply of natural gas to Ukraine's energy company in the depths of winter. The move confirmed the fears of many in the West that the wounded Russian bear, smarting from... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Utilities; Utilities

09 Jan 2008
Working Paper Summaries

A Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism

Keywords: by Rafael M. Di Tella, Juan Dubra & Robert MacCulloch; Utilities; Utilities

05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

Foreign investment in developing countries has always involved an element of risk. Just ask Verizon Communications, which could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in Venezuela should President Hugo Chávez follow through with plans announced in January to nationalize... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Utilities; Utilities

October 1972 (Revised August 1974)
Case

Consolidated Edison (A)

By: George C. Lodge

Keywords: Utilities Industry

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May 1990 (Revised February 1993)
Teaching Note

Compagnie Generale D'Electricite, Teaching Note

By: W. Carl Kester

Keywords: Utilities Industry

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July 2021
Article

Energy Efficiency and Electricity Reliability

By: Eliana Carranza and Robyn C. Meeks

Overloaded electrical systems are a major source of unreliable power. Using a randomized saturation design, we estimate the impact of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) on electricity reliability and household electricity consumption in the Kyrgyz Republic. Greater... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Technology Adoption; Green Technology; Consumer Behavior; Utilities Industry; Kyrgyzstan

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May 2024
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Design of Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis

By: Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioanna Popescu and Rowan P. Clarke

A significant proportion of the world's population has no access to grid-based electricity and so relies on off-grid lighting solutions. Rechargeable lamp technology is gaining popularity as an alternative off-grid lighting model in developing countries. In this paper,... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Developing Countries and Economies; Consumer Behavior; Poverty; Logistics; Business Model; Utilities Industry

September 2011
Teaching Note

Aguas Argentinas: Settling a Dispute (TN)

By: Louis T. Wells

Teaching Note for 705-019. View Details

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Negotiation; Contracts; Rights; Strategy; Utilities Industry; Argentina; France

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February 1990 (Revised April 1991)
Supplement

Central Maine Power Co.: Goals and Objectives Program (B)

By: Robert L. Simons

Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Programs; Utilities Industry; Maine

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August 2007
Case

Satelite Distribuidora de Petroleo

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Andrea M.A.F. Minardi

Marcelo Alecrim, the owner of SAT, a gas distribution company in Brazil, envisioned many growth opportunities but lacked financial resources to pursue them. He was approaching an American private equity fund to raise money. Describes Alecrim's challenge in creating SAT... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Utilities Industry; Brazil

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