Utilization - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 May 2023
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Interview Strategies to Connect with a Wider Range of Candidates

lets you learn someone’s capacity to think with you.” Utilize Work Samples Another way to create an inclusive interview process is to include work sample tests. This concept is like a case-based interview in which candidates are asked to... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

15 Aug 2019
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Stan Chang: “A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship”

state-of-the-art enterprise B2B software utilizing SaaS business models inspired him to seek more. Going to HBS, with its start-up support system, would give Stan, “a guided experience into the world of entrepreneurship.” Gaining an... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

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Residential Life | MBA

fees include the cost of utilities at all complexes and Internet in select locations; 24-hour maintenance service is provided. Students and families living in Harvard University Housing have access to the Graduate Commons Program, a... View Details

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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Intensive - Course Catalog

choose theories for the course based on their utility in answering some important questions for managers. Educational Objectives: The course aspires to teach students to be a better general manager . The objective is to help students... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?

has developed a "three-dimensional" model that, in addition to utilizing two familiar and traditional aspects of negotiation, offers a third, multifaceted approach that has enormous potential to increase effective negotiation. According... View Details

Keywords: Anita M. Harris

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

cultural phenomenon, or conceptual framework beyond gender binaries and the cishetero status quo. Racialize Often associated with people of color, racialization is a natural byproduct of the idea of whiteness as racelessness. Stakeholder(s) Parties involved in the... View Details

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Orkun Kilic

for victims of the disaster. "In a team, you don't want to maximize your utility, but the utility of the entire team," Orkun says. "The team's success is your success." That insight became part of the inspiration... View Details

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Faculty & Research | MBA

for their students by investing in extensive training, requesting and utilizing feedback on their teaching, and taking advantage of resources offered by the Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning . In fact, teaching is so critical... View Details

15 Dec 2024
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Kelp Is on the Way

Petrochemicals are all around us—from ubiquitous plastic packaging to the inconspicuous lining of your takeaway coffee cup, and in everyday products like soaps, deodorants, and toothpaste. But that will change, according to Matthew Perkins (MBA 2009). When industries... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustration by Melinda Beck; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

01 Sep 2011
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Making a Difference in the World

“If people want to reduce carbon emissions, they must reduce their energy use.” — Paul Baier (MBA ’94) The residential sector is the single-largest end-use sector for energy, accounting for 25 percent of global demand. If every US home replaced one light bulb with the... View Details

Keywords: Utilities; Utilities

01 Jun 2022
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Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables

From its seat at the tip of South America, belted by the equator, Colombia enjoys fairly steady temperatures—an evenness that’s counterbalanced by the seesawing of two rainy seasons and two dry seasons every year. Those peak periods of sun and rain make Colombia a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Utilities; Utilities

01 Feb 2002
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Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story

Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries (The Free Press) is the fourth major book by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., the School's Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus. It is the heretofore untold... View Details

Keywords: Utilities; Utilities

01 Mar 2013
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Noted & Quoted

"I was always a windup toy for achievement." —Barry Rowan (MBA 1983), on taking a "purposeful pause" in his career before moving to Cool Planet Energy Systems. (CFO.com, December 19, 2012) View Details

Keywords: Utilities; Utilities

March 2008
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Market Reactions to Export Subsidies

By: M. A. Desai and James R. Hines Jr.

This paper analyzes the economic impact of export subsidies by investigating stock price reactions to a critical event in 1997. On November 18, 1997, the European Union announced its intention to file a complaint before the World Trade Organization (WTO), arguing that... View Details

Keywords: Economic Systems; Trade; Development Economics; Financial Markets; Profit; Taxation; Volume; Value Creation; Market Design; Business Subsidiaries; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Europe; North and Central America

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17 Nov 2022
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Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - The Future of Green Building

Damalas details how the hotels he developed from the early 1990s utilize natural resources in a sustainable fashion. “When you can [maintain] natural corridors, not only do you have the shade factor, using less energy to air-condition the... View Details

27 Nov 2018
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Dan McGinn on How to Ace Your Presentation

got older and moved into professional life, I recognized the utility of people using similar techniques before big moments at work. My job at HBR exposed me to academic research on which of these techniques really works, and which don’t.... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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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
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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

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

In the debate over whether to increase or decrease the stringency of environmental regulations, the possibility that government agencies might use purchasing to stimulate market demand for "green" products and services is often overlooked. Nevertheless, several recent... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities

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Kochman, Reidt + Haigh, Inc.

By: Richard S. Ruback and Roy Burstin

A small company faces the dilemma of how to finance growth (i.e., internally generated cash flows vs. outside financing sources). An innovative concept positions the company in promoting a niche within the kitchen-cabinet industry and in looking for an optimal way of... View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Growth and Development Strategy; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry

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