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  • 18 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View

Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible... View Details
Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Utilities
  • 15 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

stayed home full time, according to a new study. Men raised by working mothers are more likely to contribute to household chores and spend more time caring for family members. “There are very few things that have such a clear effect on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

that implicitly activating the construct of time, rather than money, leads individuals to behave more ethically by cheating less. We further found that priming time reduces cheating by making people reflect on who they are. Implications... View Details
  • 15 Aug 2005
  • HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

product according to how valuable it is to the customer. "The case also proved useful in dealing with other complex issues related to distribution and market segmentation, two very important issues in marketing," Shapiro... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 03 May 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

security," Aamir Rehman commented that "the lifestyles of some executives make them unstable despite their wealth." Fernando das Neves Gomes diagnosed the problem in this thoughtful way: "I think much of the time the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Sep 2013
  • What Do You Think?

How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

governance problem . The problem is that network governance is not taught in business schools or any other faculties." How can strategic planning be adapted to changing needs? What will it take? What do you think? Original Article From View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • August 2020
  • Article

Does Spending Money on Others Promote Happiness? A Registered Replication Report

By: Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Jason Proulx, Iris Lok and Michael I. Norton
Research indicates that spending money on others—prosocial spending—leads to greater happiness than spending money on oneself (e.g., Dunn, Aknin, & Norton, 2008, 2014). These findings have received widespread attention because they offer insight into why people engage... View Details
Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Generosity; Well-being; Replication; Happiness; Behavior; Spending
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

When Batteries Meet Hydrogen: Dual-Storage Investments for Load-Shifting Purposes

By: Christian Kaps and Simone Marinesi
Power systems account for nearly 40% of global emissions. As the world tries to reduce emissions by increasing renewable penetration, storage technologies are playing an increasingly important role in matching variable renewable supply with demand. Batteries have... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Renewable Energy; Transition; Utilities Industry; Battery Industry
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  • 30 Jul 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Deal

is and also the fact that other people might have another mindset." Students also learn not to get snowed by certain tactics that are used by the other party. For instance, the class works on a case in which a banker is selling a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
  • 19 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 19

Detainees are randomly assigned to judges, and ideological differences across judges translate into large differences in the allocation of electronic monitoring to an otherwise similar population. Using these peculiarities of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

success and failure. Like the preceding two questions, the focus in this question is again on an adjective, this time the word critical. I will show you a simple but counterintuitive technique that you can View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 03 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers

Most of us would like to impress the people we work with. But new research from Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Alexandra Feldberg finds that, for women managers, this aspiration can undermine performance. Feldberg discovered... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 14 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

failed to meet them. Last year, the company dropped from Fortune’s best companies to work for list for the first time in two decades. What went wrong? The question that Campbell and Sandino ask in their case is: Given the pressures Amazon... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • 21 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers

with Gen Z shoppers in their teens and 20s. The payment method made up $97 billion—or 2.1 percent—of total US e-commerce sales in 2020, a figure that is expected to double by 2024. BNPL is so lucrative, merchants are paying fintech... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Financial Services; Technology
  • 06 Jul 2023
  • News

Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

in people that wanted to buy it. Timing was right for Disney. They were actually behind Netflix and others in terms of content delivery. And they called us up and they're like, "Look, we need to really move... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

paper explores the effects of monetary policy parameters and macroeconomic shocks on nominal bond risks, using a New Keynesian model with habit formation and discrete regime shifts in 1979 and 1997. The increase in bond risks after 1979... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jan 2017
  • Blog Post

The Latino Community at HBS

Hello and thank you for taking the time to read more about the Latino community at HBS! Allow us to introduce ourselves. Our names are Raysana Hurtado (Co-President of LASO) and Jon Rios (VP of Admissions... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

  PublicationsFlying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success Author:Thomas J. DeLong Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2011 Abstract Confronted by omnipresent threats of job loss and change, even the brightest among View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

the rewards were great. This initial success prompted Enron to extrapolate its business model to other markets. In 1994, Enron officials started trading wholesale electricity after Congress deregulated the industry; Enron analysts estimated the electricity market to be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 25 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

time. “Let's say you do a hackathon in Delhi with 100 people who don’t really know one another,” he says. “That’s awesome, but now that you have formed a bunch of relationships, it will be harder to engineer relationships the second time... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost