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Brooke Boyarsky

as well as the leadership skills to be able to make a difference in the organization I joined. In my long term career, I know that HBS will be incredibly valuable. On top of the skills I learned here, I look forward to utilizing the... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Technology

21 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

competitive situation, whereas women exerted similar amounts of effort whether or not they were competing. “There's a strongly held assumption that men are competitive and women aren't, and our results show otherwise.” In addition, past studies mostly View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

February 2015 (Revised December 2016)
Case

Poseidon Carlsbad: Desalination and the San Diego County Water Authority

By: John Macomber

Extreme drought conditions in California have significant impacts on the ability of the San Diego County Water Authority to provide adequate water for current users. Water shortfalls also could curtail the economic development of one of the fastest growing regions in... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships; Resource Allocation; Public Sector; Private Sector; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Infrastructure; Green Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; California

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December 1985
Case

Water Meter Industry in 1982

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry

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22 Aug 2018
Blog Post

MBA Students Reflect on Their Summer Internships

with the goal of utilizing business practices for land management issues. Scouring for applicable insights, I attempted filtering my coursework through the lens of a natural resource specialist. However, even with that perspective, the... View Details

06 Nov 2012
Op-Ed

Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities

The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

20 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Alumni and Students in Climate Networking Series: Boston

leverages the 40+ small municipal utilities across Massachusetts to look closely at what works and what doesn’t. Pasi is optimistic: “This is a very exciting journey that we are on and it comes with challenges. We are seeing the positive... View Details

12 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

PublicationsOne-Switch Conditions for Multiattribute Utility Functions Authors:Abbas, Ali E., and David E. Bell Publication:Operations Research Abstract We introduce a variety of new independence conditions for multiattribute View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

second of these books, Exponential Organizations (“ExOs”), explores the impact of new technologies on organizations. These are organizations driven by such things as AI, robotics, biotech and bioinformatics, data science, and 3D printing. Among other things, they staff... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 Oct 2018
News

Preaching with a Choir

to take it to more places in the world. The mission of the choir is to be an ambassador for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who's our sponsor, and we wanted to be able to fully utilize all the resources that were... View Details

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

energy and make a profit." "The challenge was to find ways to conserve energy and make a profit." Few industries would seem to be more at odds with resource conservation issues than the electric utility business, where profitability has... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

23 Jun 2021
Blog Post

How I Sourced My Internship Outside of the US: Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu

take chances and try new things as I refined my short- and long-term goals,” she said. With that mind, Nyantekyi-Owusu set foot in Boston ready to explore and take advantage of all HBS had to offer. Coaching, Learning, and Intuition As an RC, Nyantekyi-Owusu began... View Details

17 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 17

Abraham Neyman Abstract—Building on the work of Nash, Harsanyi, and Shapley, we define a cooperative solution for strategic games that takes account of both the competitive and the cooperative aspects of such games. We prove existence in the general non-transferable... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

companies to develop ever more sophisticated technologies, products, and systems — typically for the market's high end, where margins are greatest. However, the market's ability to utilize and pay for these advances grows more slowly,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

19 Sep 2024
Blog Post

A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market

from growers to buyers, a deliberate choice made by balancing cost and practicality. The auction, along with the transfer of flowers, occurs for just a few hours each morning. This limited operational window makes it cost-prohibitive to invest in robotic solutions that... View Details

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Gopesh Mittal

While consulting with McKinsey & Co on industry projects ranging from education to energy utilities in India, Gopesh Mittal discovered a deep interest in one especially important field, health care. “I worked for a health care company... View Details

22 Feb 2018
Blog Post

Five Steps to Jump Start Your MBA Recruiting at HBS

to our recruiting options, including details on recruiting events, interviews and job postings. 3. Create / Update Your Recruiting Account – Recruiters utilize our online recruiting platform to post jobs, sign-up for recruiting events and... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring

must be carefully utilized in light of its far-reaching implications for a company's many stakeholders. "Once considered a rare event, restructuring has become an important part of everyday business practice," Gilson asserts in Creating... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Aug 2002
News

Seventy Years Out: Class of 1932 Celebrates Reunions

observed. One of the “lucky ones,” Brink worked for the telephone company before he set up his own one-man shop — Utilities Audit Bureau — as a consultant on telephone services and systems. “In 49 years,” Brink proudly declared, “I never... View Details

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Oliver Bladek

to in your career? The opportunity to give back and utilize the tools I've crafted in b-school to help others achieve their goals, dreams, and ambitions, personally and professionally. What did you learn during the job search process? I... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consulting

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