utilities - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

process-improvement strategies. We used TDABC to evaluate the cost of providing pain control to patients undergoing thoracic surgery and to estimate the impact of specific process improvements on cost. Retrospective healthcare utilization... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers

utilizes data from households across the country that install a set-top box alongside their television that analyzes second by second what family members watch. At the same time, Kantar records everything that is shown on every station,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Sports

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

information about inventors' immigration status or ethnicities, they do contain the inventors' names. By utilizing name-matching software, the researchers could infer the ethnicity of inventors at any given firm. An inventor named Chang... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

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Instant Photography Is Launched | Baker Library

across the nation, and Life magazine featured Land’s Polaroid portrait as “Picture of the Week.” It would take another year and a half before the system would be ready for commercial release. In February 1948, Land received a series of patents including a “developing... View Details

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For Guests | Commencement 2025

portfolio for HBS that manages risk and meets our climate, health, and equity criteria. As an example, offsetting the emissions of an economy flight from San Francisco, CA to Boston, MA would cost $13.50. HBS incorporates several sustainability practices at... View Details

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

are disproportionately affected by climate change. Her project in Nepal brings together technology, government, and electric utilities to determine how rural, isolated communities—and their citizens and businesses—can increase the... View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act

utilities industries is privatized, water in particular. And I chair the organization that regulates water monopolies. They’re big companies. Many of them privately owned now by pension funds, infrastructure funds. And our job is to hold... View Details

15 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

Editor's note: This article originally appeared on Harvard University's Real Estate Academic Initiative website. If Harvard Business School and the Graduate School of Design seem miles apart both literally and culturally, John Macomber is determined to bridge the... View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities

May 2016 (Revised April 2019)
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Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World

By: Geoffrey Jones and Essie Alamsyah

This case considers the entrepreneurial career of Olivia Lum, who founded the Singaporean water company Hyflux in 1989. An orphan born in Malaysia, Lum provides a rare case of an entrepreneurial success in a country whose economic success has primarily rested on... View Details

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07 Aug 2012
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which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem (lacking perfect foresight, it is unlikely that users will end up buying the same set of applications). The analysis shows that the platform can... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2019
What Do You Think?

Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?

ease of use by instructors, and even useability in an age of “fake facts.” The most negative views came from those experiencing problems arising largely from the way cases were being taught or used. Those utilizing the method in their... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

25 Aug 2015
First Look

First Look Tuesday

short- and long-term direct monetary effects of operating a winning athletics program for an academic institution of higher education. We construct a unique panel dataset from multiple sources and utilize the latest dynamic panel data... View Details

11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

localities that help families resettle were utilized at a steady rate, while only reducing eventual employment by 2 percent. Tapping into AI in additional countries Finding ways to strike a balance between an unknown future flow of... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

16 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

mid-sized companies.” “Investing in those technologies would make portfolio companies better able to utilize the data they collect from customers and stakeholders, so they could make better business decisions.” In all of these cases, such... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

the idea of a potential internship program began to grow. So, when Westphal read about Facily and was connected with Dzodan, the timing and pairing was ideal. As the first intern in Facily’s history, Westphal utilized his experience from... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

19 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Building a Powerful Network of Talent at American Tower

American Tower is an owner and operator of wireless and broadcast communications infrastructure in 23 countries. Therefore, even if you haven’t heard the American Tower name, it’s very likely you’ve utilized their service. As Vice... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Telecommunications

20 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital

with valuable experience and by opening new doors of opportunity. Attracting and Hiring Diverse Applicants To attract applicants, Harlem Capital leverages prep programs focused on diverse talent like MLT, Toigo, and SEO, but they also View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital / Private Equity

14 Dec 2018
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

office has two video conference rooms available for interviews. If you are interested in interviewing students remotely, you can utilize our video conference tools to host virtual interviews. Contact your designated Recruiting Relations... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

04 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy

don't limit yourself. If you think you want to go into a startup then try it, but try VC too. It's great to utilize the in-semester internship time if you think you can manage it because you will get experience in a brand new area that... View Details

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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

innovative in how it utilized a variety of media in its PR campaigns. In the corporation’s promotional comic book, a popular PR format, the character Joe the Genie of Steel, “the biggest, strongest, and best steelworker,” teaches a young... View Details

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