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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

19 Nov 2012
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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

December 1993 (Revised June 2000)
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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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21 Jul 2023
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Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow

utilizes their MBA skills to bring significant value and capacity to both the business and its community. Leading into his first year at HBS, McClain was a Summer Fellow with the Harlem Children’s Zone, an education non-profit that aims... 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

12 Feb 2013
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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

14 Mar 2011
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Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Oct 2004
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Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

measurement systems are currently in place and being utilized within the organization? What are the important criteria to the company and its constituencies and stakeholders? What does the company desire to accomplish with the e-commerce... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

Electric Power and Natural Gas The Electric Power and Natural Gas group at McKinsey works with senior executives at some of the largest electric utility companies in North America to provide strategic inputs on growth and operations,... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Staffon 23 Aug 2018 I began my MBA with the goal of utilizing business practices for land management issues. Scouring... Mobility in the Motor City: My Summer at the City of Detroit Office of the Mayor Nikhil Patel 16 Aug 2018 Entering... View Details

15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

module devoted to utilizing customer-operators to improve operations (HBS No. 608-135). Purchase this exercise: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608126 Equity Derivatives Harvard Business School Note 208-117... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Oct 2019
News

Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene

reason is last-mile delivery challenges in a region where people often lack formal street addresses, a problem solved by UAE-based startup Fetchr, which utilizes smartphone GPS coordinates for delivery. Vitoria Ivashina, Lovett-Learned... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

An American Story

helped edit his dissertation, “World War II Manpower Mobilization and Utilization in a Local Labor Market.” “His sentences sometimes ran on and on in the Germanic way, so I would tighten them up a bit,” she remembers. In a tough job... View Details

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

01 Jun 1998
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HBS Club of Ireland Puts Management Skills to Work

a way to help the communities in this region. In considering what they could do in this volatile area, club members decided to focus on what they do best: business management. And they decided to utilize a format with which they were all... View Details

28 Jan 2015
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Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

utilization of ground forces—the personal selling and get-out-the-vote strategy.” "I think this research connects beautifully with a normal business operation within a corporation," says Doug J. Chung, an assistant professor in the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 15

perspectives of investors, lenders, and suppliers and shows that inventory turns, a commonly used metric to identify excess inventory, has limitations that reduce its utility for all these stakeholders. This paper presents a new metric,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2008
Article

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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23 Sep 2024
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2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

have led to their trajectory of becoming the largest utility by market cap in the U.S., underscoring their influence and leadership in the energy sector. Ines's role prior to HBS was Corporate Business Strategy at Mercado Libre... View Details

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Library you can engage with cultural artifacts and vital historical records; utilize our world-class digital collections, research tools, and curriculum support; explore the inspiring physical and digital spaces that enrich our community;... View Details

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Teaching Guidelines - Creating Emerging Markets

of the Andes (Colombia), University of Glasgow (Scotland), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (USA), and the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania (USA). For ideas on ways that you may utilize CEM transcripts and video... View Details

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