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- December 2023
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When Should the Off-Grid Sun Shine at Night? Optimum Renewable Generation and Energy Storage Investments
By: Christian Kaps, Simone Marinesi and Serguei Netessine
Globally, 1.5 billion people live off the grid, their only access to electricity often limited to operationally-expensive fossil fuel generators. Solar power has risen as a sustainable and less costly option, but its generation is variable during the day and... View Details
Kaps, Christian, Simone Marinesi, and Serguei Netessine. "When Should the Off-Grid Sun Shine at Night? Optimum Renewable Generation and Energy Storage Investments." Management Science 69, no. 12 (December 2023): 7633–7650.
- 9 May 2011 - 11 May 2011
- Conference Presentation
How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure
By: Anil Doshi, Michael Toffel and Glen W. S. Dowell
When new institutional pressures arise, which organizations are particularly likely to resist or
acquiesce? When subjected to new information disclosure mandates, an increasingly popular form
of market-based government regulation, which types of organizations are... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Regulation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation
Doshi, Anil, Michael Toffel, and Glen W. S. Dowell. "How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure." Paper presented at the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability Annual Research Conference, Philadelphia, PA, May 9–11, 2011.
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By: Karim R. Lakhani
Can America Invent Its Way Back?
BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008
Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
finance and accounting, the financial skills all managers need, and how taking an online course can help you achieve your educational goals and accelerate your career. Access your free e-book Upskill Your Team, Transform Your Organization... View Details
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What You Can Support - Alumni
practice worldwide. Financial Aid Need-based fellowships make HBS accessible to talented future leaders and enable them to pursue a wider range of career paths. MBA Program Ongoing innovation in teaching and learning ensures that the MBA... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment
entrepreneurship, 2. test potential start-up ideas, 3. develop your start-up while at school, and 4. access funding for their start-ups. If you're a climate entrepreneur, you can learn more and access more... View Details
- 23 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'
Midwesterner raised on a dairy farm, and Roy Whitcomb Riley, a Black Southerner, settled in Los Angeles shortly before their son’s birth, in 1981, after traveling the world for 18 years. They lived in Mid City, whose economic and racial diversity and central location... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
said they "frequently" tried to gain access to another person's email account, for instance, or faked a sick day at work. "We like people who are honest," concludes John. "It signals trustworthiness, and that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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VCPE Database Comparison
border-top:1px solid black; border-right:1px solid black; border-left:1px solid black"> Current Harvard affiliates HBS graduating class (for career purposes thru mid-Aug) View Details
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
something they could do themselves. Or they may not recognize that, say, spending more on rent to live closer to work could put them in a better state of mind. Swapping money for time might be especially beneficial to women. While women have certainly made strides in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact
Nora Rabah (MS/MBA 2022), who emigrated to the United States as a child, remembers the hardship of growing up without health care and wants to make drugs for children with rare diseases more accessible and affordable. Nora Rabah’s (MS/MBA... View Details
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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Transcontinental Railroad in the Gilded Age,” The Journal of American History 90, no. 1 (June 2003), p. 23. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, An Autobiography . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918, p. 240. Copyright © 2012 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard... View Details
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Poor’s Manual: The Rise of Business Analysts - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Reformer , New York: Arno Press, 1956, p. 258. Chandler, Henry Varnum Poor, Business Editor, Analyst, and Reformer . New York: Arno Press, 1956, p. 247. Copyright © 2012 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Employment Digital View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences
reflexes and the ability to ask the right questions in entrepreneurship. Having access to HBS resources and very experienced HBS faculty, as well as being in Boston, a major life science hub, both contribute to this unique sense of safety... View Details
- 28 Apr 2015
- Blog Post
3 Reasons Engineers Thrive at Business School
to propel innovation forward. They are needed to communicate with technical employees to provide mentorship. They are needed to run highly technical companies and ensure consumers obtain much needed products. They are needed to be the next great leaders in the world.... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
graduate degree for the past twenty years, it is not a requirement for becoming a manager. It is true that for those seeking access to senior executive positions or work in the fields of investment banking or consulting, an MBA has become... View Details
- 04 Dec 2019
- Book
Creating the Experimentation Organization
democratized; accessed by a large percentage of employees, who consider it as ordinary as “running the numbers.” At the final stage, companies become a true experimentation organization, says Thomke. “It’s a little like breathing. People... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
"signaling incentive," include the "career concern incentive" which refers to future job offers, shares in commercial open source-based companies or future access to venture capital, and the "ego gratification... View Details
- 13 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
Mobile Banking for the Unbanked
In many developing countries it's common for a person to have a mobile phone but not a bank account. In fact, more than 1 billion people fit this description, and the number is only likely to increase. To that end, many companies are considering how to give residents... View Details
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Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
World. She has taught at Harvard and Cambridge, and is a Visiting Fellow at Harvard's Center for History and Economics. Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Harvard Employment Digital Accessibility View Details