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- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
regulated industries — joined New England Electric in 1989, he immediately recognized that the public's demand for energy conservation would have to be met as a business opportunity. For that to happen,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
ERCOT (the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates Texas’ electrical grid). Power demand broke records 11 times and exceeded 80,000 MW for the first time in... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
we collectively use them, and that also have no natural limits on how much you can use them—things like computation, communication, biotechnology, renewable energy, and energy storage. “The environment and human well-being are way bigger than the View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
mantra included: "At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock," and the straightforward "man in the Hathaway shirt." By 1985, Ogilvy changed his tune, agreeing that a little fun is fine,... View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
electrical current, they pressed the lever over and over again, hundreds of times per hour, foregoing food or sleep, until many of them dropped dead from exhaustion. Further research found pleasure centers exist in human brains, too.... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss
potentially make electric cars more common and faster than we thought. Can you walk me through it? Jurgen Weiss: Companies like Amazon or FedEx or UPS that own all the delivery trucks look much more closely at the total cost of ownership.... View Details
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
Case 613-036 EnerNOC is an energy company with an innovative business model: it serves as an intermediary between electric utilities and electricity users. It contracts with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
trucks. The systems captured the energy created when braking and applied it to acceleration, reducing the demand on the internal combustion engine. The model was similar to that used in hybrid cars, but the heavier vehicles created more... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
emissions is to shut it down. That is a difficult proposition in the context of India’s rapidly expanding economy where demand for stable, uninterrupted power is growing. Mumbai, like much of India, has a fast-growing population with... View Details
- 14 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
New MBA Course Asks Students: What’s More Important—Purpose or Profits?
Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS). Over two days, 11 faculty members from across the School taught five new cases involving companies ranging from Microsoft to Sweden’s Northvolt electric battery maker, raising... View Details
- Profile
Yubo Cui
and its Chinese stakeholders. In a joint venture with BYD Auto, Daimler was determined to develop and manufacture an affordable electric car. “Our goal was to make it a family car, not a luxury toy,” says Yubo. “We worked ridiculously... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
eggs have a short shelf life. Norway’s salmon farms meet some 40 percent of global demand for the species, for instance, but can harvest eggs only during the few months of spawning season. How do you boost production the rest of the year?... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
work—rather than a sporadic trip to the office could prove invaluable in designing flows in and out of a city’s center. Another example: Designers developing new infrastructure for electric vehicles might benefit from knowing driving... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
workplace. Across six studies, we found convergent evidence that emotional acknowledgment led to greater perceptions of costliness, and in turn, to higher evaluations of trust.” Working Papers Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices: Evidence from the View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
correlated with less individualism. We provide three short models that help interpret this correlation. One implication of this finding is that societies that depend heavily on oil, and perhaps natural resources more generally, will experience a heavier View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
relationships. I thought Organizational Behavior was for wimps. Now, it’s a large part of what I do.” CURRENT READING The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II, by Jeff Shaara “In business, the notion of ‘leave us alone and let us make money’ doesn’t cut it today. We’re... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
world. “The list of competitors poised for attack was more than a little daunting: Texas Instruments, Motorola, National Semiconductor, Phillips, Siemens, Nippon Electric Corporation (NEC), Hitachi, and Fujitsu, among others — the Billion... View Details
Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
and electricity companies. The news headlines make the arrival of a new book on protecting foreign investment more prescient. Professor Louis T. Wells and coauthor Rafiq Ahmed recently published Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
transitioned increasingly to serve oil and gas companies. However, in recent years, the port has undergone another transition, to meet the growing demand for offshore wind. Our visit was divided into four parts: an introductory... View Details