Energy Investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Apr 2014
What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

and using 'money' facilitates the exchange of goods and services. So we are still capitalists " Barry Shere commented that "I do not see how profits are neutered as a result of the pressure on prices and margins per transaction. As for lowered View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

Career Coach

Vincent Dessain

Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for and pursue their career options.... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

investment banking, also invokes the 1960s as a point of reference, specifically with regard to that era's conglomerate-building mania. "We saw huge companies of ill-fitting parts all held together by financial glue and the belief that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

14 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 14

return on investment (ROI). Wall Street was a data-driven place to work, and if they wanted to create something that would survive beyond the tenure of the firm's existing leadership, they had to prove that the time, money, and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

Working PapersBarriers to Acting in Time on Energy and Strategies for Overcoming Them Author:Max H. Bazerman No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-063.pdf Fear of Rejection? Tiered... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

disgruntled subordinates, or disengaged employees. "I can give great PowerPoint presentations, but that doesn't tell people whether I'm Attila the Hun or a New Age Leader, or if I create a culture of fear, a culture that accepts and respects dissent, or a culture... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

that the choice women make to leave and re-enter the workforce is just one of many gender-related issues that has long needed understanding. Though it's not unique to executives, it is a particularly compelling subject for MBA women who have made heavy View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Profile

Minal Mehta

"Teaching BollyX classes and running BollyX actually makes me better at both jobs. As a cocreator of the BollyX workout, I absolutely love teaching BollyX classes. Feeling the energy and vibe of the class participants keeps me... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Services

01 Sep 2012
News

High Honors

graduated from Palo Alto High School and Stanford—but he helped shepherd in a new era. Considered one of the founding fathers of Silicon Valley, he founded Draper and Johnson in 1962 , with his friend Bill Draper (MBA 1954), and Asset Management Company in 1967, when... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2005
News

One-on-One with Thomas Riley

whether I’m still up to it. I’m ready to go.” Eight months later, in January 2004, Riley took his post at the U.S. embassy in Rabat, where he oversees a staff of 400 people. A Stanford University graduate, he is a veteran of three decades in international business,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance; Government

Career Coach

Lauren Murphy

Lauren is the Founder and Principal Coach of Pivotal Executive Coaching, partnering with senior business leaders to accomplish their professional and organization goals. She works with executives in technology, healthcare, real estate, consumer products, and financial... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

Inside the Revolution

consume carbon dioxide (i.e., greenhouse gas) and turn it into raw materials that could replace petrochemicals. The energy business, it seems, is destined to become driven by biology-based innovation. Developments such as these are all... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

we've noted, a good number of them were ready to bolt. Gooding made it a priority to assemble a high-quality senior team and, further, to personally invest the time and energy in creating healthy... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Dec 2016
News

The Dragon’s Tale

down all the universities in the country for 10 years. In terms of education, it was a lost generation. Did you get a sense of people’s outlook toward the future? Under the new leadership of Deng Xiaoping, there was an energy that you... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

unpopular and very costly war in Iraq. Meanwhile, countries that used to be called "less developed" became emerging markets, and have invested much more in the development of talent than we have. So there are also concerns about... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2021
News

What's the Word?

relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

do not have the time or money to travel physically, do it on your iPad. Don’t rely on any pension: it’s invested in Italian government bonds. Resign yourselves to working to age 70 and more. Look in Italian history for models to follow,... View Details

19 Mar 2015
News

Walter Salmon Remembered

working for an investment management firm in Boston. He then served as the Chairman of the Board of the investment management company I started in Boston nine years later. Professor Salmon constantly amazed... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2014
News

What’s Next

innovation in higher education. How does HBS deal with the risks and opportunities of disruptive innovation for its own long-term development? Ha Xuan Trung (MBA 1978), Brookline, Massachusetts More About The HBS Campaign Investing In... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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