Utilization - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

22 Jan 2018
Blog Post

HBS Peek: Finding a Sense of Purpose

their careers. I was amazed to discover the multitude of career paths possible after pursuing an MBA, from politics to the arts. Regardless of their chosen profession, HBS alumni not only pursued their passions, but also utilized them to... 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

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

December 1993 (Revised June 2000)
Case

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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Educators

Purchase

03 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 3

Specifically, we examine the impact of the annual July turnover of residents in American teaching hospitals on levels of resource utilization and quality relative to a control group of non-teaching hospitals. We find that, despite the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

they have the highest chance of success. Through training as well as motivations, even average players might become rising superstars. "It pays for firms to invest in hiring and developing great managers" In the corporate world, this is analogous to team... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

what your salespeople (and other customer-facing personnel, such as service personnel) must be good at. Then, the issue is aligning field behaviors with those required tasks and utilizing the appropriate internal levers for doing so. The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

Authors:Jakub Wojciech Jurek and Luis M. Viceira Revised Working Paper Author's Abstract We develop an analytical solution to the dynamic portfolio choice problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

channels; The secret marketing vector that only cleantech companies can use; Harnessing utility companies to help you sell your product; How to establish your credibility; and Financing your sale. Forget It; What's the Point?: Letting Go... View Details

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

students began to attack these cases by working together. The goal was threefold, says Dr. James Young, executive dean of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine: Watson was to help doctors get better at diagnosing illnesses and diseases; Watson was to View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

13 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

procedures of Pratt (2007), including the Nash bargaining procedure, satisfy this. Other prominent efficient procedures do not. In two-agent problems, reducing the feasible set between the solution and one agent's maximum point increases the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Apr 2022
News

Clean Slate

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In the first of a weekly series of Skydeck episodes honoring recipients of the 2022 Alumni Achievement Award, finance veteran Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982) talks about her second act as chairman and founder... View Details

Keywords: Utilities; Utilities

05 Feb 2019
News

Protecting the Power Grid

Tom Popik was just looking for a Christmas present, not a cause. Browsing through a bookstore looking for a gift for his oldest son almost a decade ago, he started thumbing through a copy of William Forstchen’s novel One Second After. The book tells the story of a man... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; terrorism; Utilities; Utilities

01 Mar 2005
News

Lighting It Up

Last December, David Wilkins (MBA 1990) admired the brilliant skyline of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, with its color-changing buildings and holiday lighting. “I love when nighttime comes,” the former investment banker told the Rocky Mountain News (December 24, 2004).... View Details

Keywords: lighting; Utilities; Utilities

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

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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

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Session Types | Information Technology

of session page regarding session types for Rock Center The Rock Center for Entrepreneurship utilized the HBS Live Online Classroom to bring together MBA students participating in the Summer Fellows program. Let’s explore what’s possible... View Details

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