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26 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different

PowerBar. The original Walkman. Coke and Pepsi. As the category evolves, however, the number of product alternatives within the category tends to grow exponentially. Today, PowerBar alone produces more than 40 different varieties of its View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

Swissgrid: Enterprise Risk Management in a Digital Age Kurt Meyer, chief risk officer of Swissgrid, the Swiss national electricity transmission system operator, reflects on the risk management system he installed after the deregulation and liberalization of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

evaluating energy policy. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53813 Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact By: Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Tricia Gregg Abstract—Achieving transformative impact has... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008

technical and economic competitiveness with petroleum-based polymers and conventional composites. We assess whether these developments also improve the environmental sustainability of biopolymers, by using a life cycle approach. We estimate View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

out in a way that is consistent with how the new leader plans to govern, illustrates his or her values, and signals some of his or her later moves. It’s pretty demoralizing to live inside a situation needing a turnaround. To renew people’s View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 May 2008
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First Look: May 6, 2008

that the Chinese companies could buy oil in the highly fungible global marketplace. But Sinopec, the nation's largest refiner, was one of the three companies (together with PetroChina and CNOOC) engaged in the equity oil play. With China's View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

ultimately acting upon complex decisions. The (A) case provides an inside look as Felipe Calderón, president of Mexico, works with his cabinet ministers to decide how to turnaround a corrupt, highly unionized, and poorly managed state-owned company that distributes... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

platform for the energy and idealism of young people, a beacon for pilgrims and peace-builders, as well as a focus for seemingly endless media inquiries from reporters, documentary filmmakers, and writers keen on telling its story to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

Similarly, in the case of an energy company like Enron, this model would call on directors to be concerned not just with shareholder value when deciding whether to manipulate the trading of natural gas contracts in California, but also... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

linkages on a strategy map that define and tell the story of the business unit's strategy. Summary Traditionally, competitive advantage came from access to low-cost raw materials, energy sources, or financial capital and an ability to... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

development—supplying energy to impoverished rural areas in India, against environmental damage-caused by the use of coal-fired power plants. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609057 GSK's... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

What's lost there, though, is that some people who have a lot of energy to bring—and I'm one of them—get turned off by these deletionists trying to slam doors in our faces." But in its 8-year life in several forms, Wikipedia has shown... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

January 2022 (Revised August 2022)
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Geely SEA: New Electric Vehicle Platforms

By: Willy C. Shih and Shu Lin

Kent Bovellan, the Chief Engineer and Head of the Vehicle Architecture Center for Geely Holding, the Hangzhou, China headquartered global automotive group, was debating the platform choice for an upcoming "D" segment midsized battery electric vehicle (BEV). He had led... View Details

Keywords: Product Innovation; Product Architecture; Product Engineering; Platform Design; Platform Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Product Design; Product Development; Cost Management; Decision Making; Competitive Strategy; Industry Structures; Auto Industry; China; Sweden

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10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

Global developed, financed, owned, and operated environmentally sustainable energy generation and electric distribution facilities in Central America. In 1992, seven IC members invested $1.4 million in the company, then worth $4 million.... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

with a particular frenzy on the venture capital side, which then was followed by a pretty dramatic and ugly collapse," Lerner said. "I think today when we look at the European market, it's clear that there is a lot of interest and a lot of View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

June 1990 (Revised August 1992)
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H. Ross Perot

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Keywords: Energy Industry; Energy Industry

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02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

he learn for “Labs 2.0”? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/318068-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-023 Accounting for Political Risk at AES As a global energy generating company, AES frequently faces... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2025
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A Tiger in the Tank: Exxon Sues Investors

By: Clayton S. Rose, Sarah Sasso and James Weber

In June 2024, investors were trying to make sense of ExxonMobil’s (Exxon) lawsuit against two impact investors, Arjuna Capital (Arjuna) and Follow This, that had just been dismissed by the U.S. District Court of Northern Texas. Exxon’s suit challenged the rights of two... View Details

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June 2023
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Royal Golden Eagle: Pursuing Cross-border Expansion with Bold Ambition

By: Kristin E. Fabbe, Dante Roscini, Adina Wong and Dawn H. Lau

About how Singapore-based natural resources firm Royal Golden Eagle, starting with a palm oil business in Indonesia, eventually expanded into a global conglomerate that also included the kraft pulp and paper, viscose, and natural gas industries. View Details