Utilization - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jun 2023
Blog Post

How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values

facilitate these complex conversations, and organizations who invest in bringing in external facilitators can build a higher degree of trust with employees. Communicating with Candidates at HBS HBS Recruiting Partners are encouraged to View Details

Keywords: All Industries

03 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

technology-ready by investors by 2023. “New nuclear” power must be cheaper than coal for the developing world’s national utilities (less than $0.05 per kilowatt hour) by 2025. ”New nuclear” must be as deployable at the same rate as coal... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy

27 Mar 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy

transition to better EV platforms. Tailored Solutions for India's MarketThe live demonstration of 85% charging in 15 minutes showcased the feasibility and scalability of Exponent's technology. Designed for India's specific challenges-such as voltage fluctuations, dust,... View Details

20 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management

frameworks. These challenges underscore the necessity of private intervention. Local utilities will require innovative financing mechanisms and technical assistance. Our site visits offer valuable insights into Mumbai’s ongoing water... View Details

30 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Rob Self (MBA 2021) – Integrating Climate into Consulting

help making an action plan that is both sustainable and profitable. I've also become an official part of the climate and sustainability practice area at BCG. I’ve worked on internal thought leadership such as offshore wind market assessments for the US northeast, power... View Details

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Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part - Recruiting

Recruiting Strategies Student & Alumni Stories Summer Internships In the spring of 2020, Kenneth Chenault (MBA 2019), Kevin Chenault (MBA 2021), Carter Lewis (MBA 2023), Lindsey Ferguson, Nicolle Mora, and Sesana Allen were each pursuing their own careers, View Details

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

They focused on utility patents, or new or improved useful products that grant the inventor exclusive commercial rights for up to 20 years. To qualify, patents needed to list at least one US inventor. What they found was a huge spike in... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Dec 2011
What Do You Think?

Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

impose " Sudheer Thaakur concurred: " in a world that is more complex and uncertain and ambiguous we should be promoting slow and deliberative thinking. Till we do that we will not be able to fully utilize the opportunity... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Jan 2007
What Do You Think?

Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?

risk and return are assessed in different parts of the brain, thereby questioning theories regarding expected utility on which a great deal of decision theory has been based up to now. Thus, according to this research, different qualities... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

"network effects"—the idea that the value or utility of a product goes up as more people use it. A telephone holds no value if there is only one in the world—but the technology becomes increasingly valuable as more people use... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

"custom assembly." In the former, managers pick an existing manufacturing system here, a human resources and finance system there, and bring them together to serve the operation's needs. In the latter, bits and pieces of code are pulled off the Internet and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought

might serve the study of consumer behavior. An HBS professor since 1991, Zaltman's work actually cuts across a number of boundaries. He's a co-director (with Stephen M. Kosslyn, Professor of psychology at Harvard University) of the Mind of the Market lab, a state of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

across the globe while also linking the classroom and workplace. Held offshore, the program's introductory module directly immerses participants in the challenges that foreign markets and cultural environments present. The subsequent module View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

say, can be helpful — an approach that did wonders for a group at Nissan Design International when it was in the final throes of plans for the automaker's Pathfinder sport utility vehicle. No matter what form the incubation period takes,... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

09 Apr 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel

addressing societal challenges. By reducing food waste, Waycool makes a positive impact, aligning profit-making with sustainable practices. Even established players like JSW Steel display a harmonious integration of economic pursuits and environmental responsibility.... View Details

18 Mar 2014
News

The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain

business, but for life." Howe, a towering 6'6", likens sports and business, although he admits he was an "awful" football player (tight end) at Princeton. "Business is fun because it's a competition," he says. And, as in sports, it helps to have a goal. What's his... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

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

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

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

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