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- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon, who faces a time-varying investment opportunity set, parameterized using a flexible vector autoregression. We apply this framework to study the horizon... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
in improving processes. Retailers can certainly learn from the auto industry's experience. Like in manufacturing a few decades ago, there is a lot of low-hanging fruit in retail operations today. However, to harvest these fruits retailers will have to make View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
rewards) as these uncertain transition parameters jointly vary within a given uncertainty set. We show that these problems are computationally tractable if the uncertainty set has a row-wise structure. Conversely, we prove that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Cummings saw the potential of the city dwindling. The change was partially economic—the city’s credit rating, which had improved by the end of the 1990s, slipped again in the 2000s—and partially personal: Cumming’s children had graduated... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
the ambient atmosphere. The density of those molecules is much lower, so it’s a much more difficult energy-mass problem. And energy-mass challenges turn into cost problems in the end. So it’s really about asking, Can we capture these... View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
the upper hand in this area. The following table compares the strengths and weaknesses of each model: P2p Strengths Weaknesses It's free Under constant attack by industry players Variety of content Downloading time varies No restrictions on content (no DRM) Congestion... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
IEEE Security & Privacy Accountable? The Problems and Solutions of Online Ad Optimization By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Online advertising might seem to be the most measurable form of marketing ever invented. Comprehensive records... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
a bus in 1946. In that same decade, my paternal grandmother’s 12-year old neighbor was murdered, shot by a white man armed with a rifle, after walking through his yard. The problem is that these stories and untimely deaths repeat... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
meat. And I think one of the problems vegetarian food has had or meals when you take the meat away, often vegans and vegetarians eat a very, very lean diet. And I think that what happens is when somebody who has a meat based diet eats a... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
growth market with a sector leader and a smart, trustworthy, deep-pocketed partner, do it and figure out the fund issues later. Your investors will be happy you did! Deborah Farrington (MBA 1976) StarVest Partners Still Buffering I was an... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
only I could think of a way to really butter them up. At the end of the tunnel I see that everyone's lights are on. It's 9:00 a.m.! Why are their lights on? And then I drive out into what was just a beautiful fall day, and it's pouring.... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
it and demonstrates why the easy short-term choice is often the most perilous in the long-term. The Founder's Dilemmas draws on the inside stories of founders like Evan Williams of Twitter and Tim Westergren of Pandora, while mining quantitative data on almost 10,000... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
individual leaders truly responsible for the end result, or do they just happen to be there—for better or worse? Is history made by forces outside our control, or can leaders make a real difference? With Lincoln, questions like this seem... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
with some of firms’ highest-achieving employees often ended with questions about how to manage the demands of parenting and work. Much of the information she found was long on platitudes and short on practical, actionable advice—so she... View Details
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
shares. Officers of the company are considering how to fashion a transaction that will end the family's control and win the approval of both classes of shareholders. The Magna (A) case asks the students to weigh the costs and benefits of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
a distance.” Thanks to these bizarre properties, quantum computers can solve problems that lie beyond the reach of classical ones. “Computationally, it’s like our generation’s discovery of fire,” says Carolyn Fu, an assistant professor of... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
but also what the end of this process means. I think people have a lot of questions. DM: In October 2022, the company held a town hall meeting on Project Bison in Rock Springs, Wyoming. About 130 people attended the meeting, which... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
opening several “desal” plants a year worldwide, costing up to $300 million each. “Seawater desalination provides the ultimate answer for water-supply problems because its source is effectively limitless,” says Brown. “Its drawbacks are... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
forthcoming Academy of Management Discoveries Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—In recent years, progress has been made toward AI Creativity, which I define as the production of highly novel, yet appropriate,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman