Electric Power Generation - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jan 2022
News

Learning to Fight

path for Rick Sontag, then the president of an aviation-components manufacturer. “If I ever get a chance to do something about this disease,” he pledged. “I’m going to do it.” In 2002, he had that chance. Sontag sold Unison Industries to View Details

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 2019
News

Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup

often visiting company parking lots; businesses have been one of Yoshi’s best customers, paying the service’s monthly subscription fee as a job perk for their employees. Yoshi’s eliminate-the-gas-station model has also attracted the attention of ExxonMobil and View Details

Keywords: April White; startups; on-demand economy; entrepreneurship; Personal Services

Matthew Reardon

Matthew Reardon is a partner in the firm’s Business Law department and a member of the Technology M&A practice. Matt represents the companies, firms, and institutions that power innovation in the technology and life sciences industries,... View Details

Keywords: Legal

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

example of IBM reducing electricity consumption significantly between 1990 and 2012 and saving $477 million in the process. The role of academics in this process, she said, is the traditional one: to think clearly, see what is true, not... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Aug 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

decades have generated rich empirical data on firms and business systems that can confirm or challenge many of today's fashionable theories and assumptions by other disciplines. Business history has broadened its scope in the last two... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

firms jump on the new technology bandwagon to the coming of rules and governance. Would you elaborate on that? Spar: Since Professor Chandler has mentioned RCA, let me use that as an example. In 1926, along with General View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

01 Dec 1997
News

Banking on HBS

phase along with Stanford Business School professor Charles O'Reilly. The case method is the primary learning tool; overall, cases used in EDP range from an examination of General Electric CEO Jack Welch's... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2017
News

Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving

Long before HBS professor Karim R. Lakhani used crowdsourcing to develop pioneering research on the science of innovation, his experiences working at General Electric and the Boston Consulting Group piqued... View Details

13 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

02 Apr 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: A Circular Journey Through JSW Cement - From Steel Slag to Stronger Shores

production, JSW Cement is incorporating green technology into their entire supply chain and production processes. In September 2023, they embarked on a pioneering initiative: piloting electric vehicles (EV trucks) in their logistics... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Batteries Included

long? What if ships could be propelled without fossil fuels now? That’s an idea at the heart of Fleetzero. The concept has an elegant simplicity: Build batteries into shipping containers that can be unloaded with cranes like any other cargo and swapped out at charging... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; Water Transportation; Transportation

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

so-called "enrollment crisis" in IS education, especially with the generation of "digital natives" who have come of age in an environment crowded with engaging approaches to communication and entertainment that compete... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

their hybrid-fiber-coaxial (HFC) network lose out to the All Fiber Network (AFN) developed by the electric power companies in concert with RCN-inspired entrepreneurs. No, wait. It's 2010, and the channels... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

01 May 2000
What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

viable alternative. Original Article Several months ago, the General Electric Company announced that it had closed a deal with Boeing that specified that only GE aircraft engines would be installed on the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

tackled the identity issue when he helped General Electric revamp its marketing department, a process described in the October 2010 Harvard Business Review article Unleashing the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2006
News

HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered

he was “a businessman who became a teacher,” spent nine years at General Electric and also worked at Corning Glass and Sperry Gyroscope before coming to HBS. An authority on manufacturing and planning, he... View Details

05 Aug 2002
What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

In one recent case, Procter & Gamble purchased a company producing a low-cost, mass-produced disposable electric rotary toothbrush to be marketed under its famous Crest brand umbrella. As it turns out, its founders developed the... View Details