Alternative Energy Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1998
News

Short Takes

HBS professor Michael Beer and Harvard University doctoral candidate Nancy Katz report on a survey of 205 executives from 30 countries in industries such as manufacturing, retail, and financial and professional services. The survey... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

we could tap the wisdom of the crowd to help design them? When you start thinking about making cars this way, at some point you’ve ceased thinking about cars and started thinking about a modern alternative to mass production. People will... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Four Ways to Make The Most of Your Company Events - Recruiting

based on the enthusiasm that person has for your organization. Quick Tips: Select inspiring speakers who are great at building personal relationships. Think of someone on your team who you are always excited to work with because they bring up your View Details

22 Nov 2024
News

Healthcare Club Hosts its 25th Annual Conference; Alumni Step Out for Global Networking Night; Meet the Club Leader: Andrea Fantacone

Healthcare Alumni Conference Marks 25 Years The HBS Healthcare Alumni Association (HBSHAA) hosted its 25th Annual Conference at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge on November 7, and once again offered an exclusive agenda that was jam-packed with View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

out of the rut." 45 While ARD started out with an uneven performance, suffering some initial losses, it showed consistent gains by 1955. "We cannot depend safely for an indefinite time on the expansion of our old big industries alone,"... View Details

2003
Article

Closing the Loop: Product Take-back Requirements and their Strategic Implications

By: Michael W. Toffel

In Asia, Europe, and North America, regulators are seeking to reduce waste disposal and develop recycling markets by requiring manufacturers to manage the end-of-life disposition of products they produce. Such policies attempt to "close the loop" for products ranging... View Details

Keywords: Wastes and Waste Processing; Energy Conservation; Product Development; Strategy; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Manufacturing Industry; Asia; Europe; North and Central America

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25 Feb 2020
News

Beyond the Plastisphere

measure. Unfortunately, not all plastic products can be recycled, or are worth recycling from an economic standpoint: think wrappers, straws, and bottle caps, for example. Solving that problem will require an alternative to conventional... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

04 Dec 2014
News

Hacking Health Care

The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 2017
News

In My Humble Opinion: Truth Teller

there’s the adrenaline factor. If you’re coming up to a big hedge, you’re not thinking about what’s going on in the office. You’re wondering whether you’re going to get to the other side.” Successful turnarounds: Five and counting: Kingfisher (retail), Asda... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

09 May 2013
News

Road Trip

have many entrepreneurial friends in traditional industries here in the Kansas City area. Indeed, I believe there are many entrepreneurial opportunities in the Midwest and Southwest but because they're related to View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management

Profile

Nikki Skovran

Africa. “I was impressed by the entrepreneurial energy there,” she says. “It was great to see that on the ground.” Her team worked with the Awethu Project, a startup incubator that exchanges business skills training for equity stakes in... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Consulting; Entrepreneurship

02 Feb 2023
News

Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

help address the climate change crisis by removing excess carbon dioxide right out of the atmosphere. The promise of this approach has launched a raft of companies that not only capture but also store and even reuse the carbon—creating an View Details

11 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 11

on location choices. However, industries with a significant presence of multinational enterprises (MNEs) are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that rivalry among firms plays an important role in firms' dynamic decision-making... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

January 2013
Supplement

Cabot Corporation: The Fuel Cell Decision (B)

By: Willy Shih and Ying Zhou

Managers at Cabot Corporation are faced with deciding the future of its fuel cell program. The (A) case recounts the view of the business manager and the technical project lead, and the (B) case describes the perspective of a senior manager who is the head of the New... View Details

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22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

Business School Case 708-490 The management team of an industrial equipment supplier is debating the company's method of compensating salespeople. Different executives have offered different alternatives to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact

helped him move on to an operations management role at an early-stage battery startup. Tell us a bit about your background before you came to HBS. I studied industrial engineering as an undergrad, and ended up doing a master’s degree in... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

days, because consumers' demand for information about goods and services tends to be inelastic. As the model illustrates, additional forces drive industry change as well. Alternatives to advertising, known... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

05 Feb 2019
News

Protecting the Power Grid

chairman and president; sectionmate Paul Schwarzbaum (MBA 1988) agreed to serve as a director. “We aim to protect industrialized societies against the long-term collapse of infrastructure through technical and regulatory solutions,” says... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; terrorism; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

04 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets

handle. It also poses practical problems. For instance, how easy is it to estimate a reliable breakup value for a business group in the middle of a fire sale and in the absence of a well-developed market for asset sales? But if dismantling business groups is not a... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu

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Luc Sirois