Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (293) Arrow Down

Show Results For

← Page 9 of 293 Results →
  • 2024
  • Article

Financial Constraints and Short-term Planning are Linked to Flood Risk Adaptation Gaps in U.S. cities

By: Shirley Lu and Anya Nakhmurina
Adaptation is critical in reducing the inevitable impact of climate change. Here we study cities’ adaptation to elevated flood risk by introducing a linguistic measure of adaptation extracted from financial disclosures of 431 US cities over 2013–2020. While cities with... View Details
Keywords: City; Natural Disasters; Climate Change; Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategic Planning
Related
  • Web

Future Positive - Managing the Future of Work

uncertainty due to many forces of change as they attempt to prepare the workforce of the future. To navigate the headwinds, employers must be more discerning in their strategic choices. As they fight the... View Details
  • Profile

Nabihah Sachedina

and strategic consequences. On the practical side: "All those finance and accounting classes I dreaded? Without them, I could never have managed a budget of that [the Commission's] size. I can say without View Details
  • Web

Strategy Execution - Course Catalog

that motivates people to help others achieve shared goals. Adapting to change: You will learn how to identify the strategic uncertainties that could upend your strategy, build early warning systems, and... View Details
  • 25 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation

uncertainty for project finance risk appetite, leaving a capital gap for FOAK projects. Trellis Climate was founded to help startups deploy their FOAK climate projects. In my role, I lead pipeline development, project diligence, and... View Details
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective By: Altman, Elizabeth J., and Michael Tushman Abstract—Platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies embrace and enable interactions with external... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)

uncertainty for project finance risk appetite, leaving a capital gap for FOAK projects. Trellis Climate was founded to help startups deploy their FOAK climate projects. In my role, I lead pipeline development, project diligence, and... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

the China business as part of a global portfolio, under a range of geopolitical scenarios. The Imperfectionists: Strategic Mindsets for Uncertain Times By Robert McLean and Charles Conn (MBA 1990) Wiley The world is changing faster and... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Avoiding a Succession Crisis

there is great uncertainty as to whom the successor should be and how the process of finding a successor should be managed. There is something very wrong with this picture. I would have been surprised by this situation before completing... View Details
Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

risks, which threaten the achievement of the firm's strategic objectives, into the open and under control. Its organizational significance is that, by providing a process to identify, measure, monitor, and manage View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 1998 (Revised May 1999)
  • Case

General Scanning, Inc. (A)

By: H. Kent Bowen, Sean McClenaghan and Charles Tillen
General Scanning, Inc. was founded by Jean Montagu and Pierre Brosens, two MIT mechanical engineers with an interest in developing innovative products based on the early application of lasers. They invented proprietary technology for laser beam positioning and scanning... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Entrepreneurship; Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Strategic Planning; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Commercialization; Manufacturing Industry
Related
  • 06 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 6, 2016

uncertainty into the consumer's relative product valuations since she is unable to observe the entire catalog of products that the retailer will sell that season. Rationally acting consumers may respond to this additional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

challenges arise against the backdrop of the accelerated approval process, uncertainty about what the FDA will ultimately decide, and whether the company should indeed pursue early approval. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

years, the buyout team sells its stakes in these firms. "This exit can be accomplished through a sale to a strategic buyer, such as a corporation, or to another private equity group. But in many of the most successful investments,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

Sadun Abstract—Many senior executives struggle to describe how they make strategic decisions. That’s a serious problem since the process for making strategic decisions can shape the strategy itself. To... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1996
  • News

New Releases

California, leading scholars in economics, psychology, statistics, and decision theory grapple with strategic uncertainty and the question of how to make wise choices. The 23 papers in this collection—which... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

high-beta stocks. An Empirical Analysis of Innovation Contests: Strategic Incentives, Problem Uncertainty and Independent Experimentation along Parallel Paths Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

(MBA 1976) Independently published This book is for anyone earning a living, or students preparing to do so, in an increasingly chaotic world of work. It’s a world in which, for many, the uncertainty regarding a financially comfortable... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 16 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy

Energy and HySynergy are angling to play a significant role lowering emissions in a hard-to-abate sector. The management team must balance the “clean” and “dirty” sides of the business to successfully finance the energy transition. The balance is equal parts technical... View Details
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

information about a company he or she manages. The student must make decisions about pollution-reducing investments and production levels in the face of uncertainty about pollution permit prices. Students form groups of five, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne