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  • October, 2022
  • Article

The Economic Dynamics of Competing Power Generation Sources

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
Competing power generation sources have experienced considerable shifts in both their revenue potential and their costs in recent years. Here we introduce the concept of Levelized Profit Margins (LPM) to capture the changing unit economics of both intermittent and... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Intermittant; Cost Accounting; Profitability Analysis; Learning-by-doing; Cannibalization Effect; Energy; Environmental Management; Investment; Operations; Technological Innovation; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
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Startup Bootcamp

By: Julia B. Austin
The Startup Bootcamp is an immersion program for first-year HBS MBA candidates that uses a learning-by-doing approach to build skills required as an early stage entrepreneur. View Details

    HBS Startup Bootcamp

    The HBS Startup Bootcamp is an immersion program for first-year HBS MBA candidates that uses a learning-by-doing approach to build skills required to succeed as an early stage entrepreneur. During the January term, students attend morning workshops to learn new skills,... View Details
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    Product Management 101 & 102

    By: Julia B. Austin
    Julia previously taught Product Management 101 & 102 (PM 101/102). This is a two-semester project-based course that uses a learning-by-doing approach to build basic product management skills. Students evaluate user needs and specify functional requirements... View Details
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Algorithm-Augmented Work and Domain Experience: The Countervailing Forces of Ability and Aversion

    By: Ryan Allen and Prithwiraj Choudhury
    Past research offers mixed perspectives on whether domain experience helps or hurts algorithm-augmented work performance. To reconcile these perspectives, we theorize that domain experience affects algorithm-augmented performance via two distinct countervailing... View Details
    Keywords: Automation; Domain Experience; Algorithmic Aversion; Experts; Algorithms; Machine Learning; Decision-making; Future Of Work; Employees; Experience and Expertise; Decision Making; Performance
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      Location Choices under Strategic Interactions

      The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics. However, most industries with a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms... View Details
      • February 2015
      • Article

      Location Choices under Strategic Interactions

      By: Juan Alcacer, Cristian Dezso and Minyuan Zhao
      The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of location and firm characteristics. However, most industries with a significant presence of multi-location firms are oligopolistic in nature, which suggests that strategic interaction among firms... View Details
      Keywords: Location Strategies; Multinational Strategy; Oligopolistic Competition; Firm Heterogeneity; Geographic Location; Multinational Firms and Management; Balance and Stability; Decision Choices and Conditions; Game Theory
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      • 12 Feb 2020
      • Blog Post

      Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)

      different segments of financial markets: from lending to payments, from investments to real estate.   HBS Startup Bootcamp  Faculty: Julia Austin, Allison Mnookin & Martin Sinozich  The HBS Startup Bootcamp is a 9-day program for first-year students that uses a... View Details
      • 17 Jan 2019
      • Blog Post

      MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

      lending to payments, from investments to real estate.  HBS Startup Bootcamp  HBS Startup Bootcamp is a 9-day program for RC students that uses a learning-by-doing approach to build skills required to succeed as an early-stage... View Details
      • 01 Mar 2017
      • News

      What’s New in Educational Innovation? A Few Highlights

      first-year MBA students. The bootcamp uses a learning-by-doing approach to build skills required to succeed as an early-stage entrepreneur. Other topics such as coding and financial analysis are planned for future programs. HBX Two New... View Details
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      Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows Program | MBA

      academic credit, takes place during the College Wintersession in January and uses a learning-by-doing approach to build the knowledge and skills needed to succeed as an early-stage entrepreneur. HBS MBA Electives Fellows may take up to... View Details
      • 13 Jun 2017
      • Blog Post

      What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann

      courses at HBS. I especially enjoy building project-based courses that use a learning-by-doing approach. My colleagues at SEAS are great at that, so I look forward to collaborating with and learning from them. I also love working closely... View Details
      • 29 Nov 2017
      • Blog Post

      HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise

      as a springboard to lifetime success.Without HBS, there simply is no Trey, because Trey has been the beneficiary of nearly every HBS entrepreneurial program. First, we participated in the inaugural Startup Bootcamp, an immersion program for first-year students that... View Details
      • 01 Jun 2022
      • News

      Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

      knowledge. How is it structured? Tom Eisenmann: Students in Startup Bootcamp work on a venture concept in a small team and pitch it to outside experts, so it’s the learning-by-doing complement to the conceptual foundations they acquire in... View Details
      Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
      • 05 Jun 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: June 5

      (giving competitors a lead in a market) and the entrenchment benefits (the cost advantage firms develop through learning-by-doing when they enter early). Both the opportunity costs of absence and the entrenchment benefits vary according... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 08 Apr 2014
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      First Look: April 8

      the resulting dual-process learning model experimentally, using a mixed-method design that combines two laboratory experiments with a field experiment conducted in a large business process outsourcing company in India. We find a performance differential when comparing... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 10 Dec 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: December 10

      the entrenchment benefits (the cost advantage firms develop through learning-by-doing when they enter early). Both the opportunity costs of absence and the entrenchment benefits vary according to initial relative firm capabilities,... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 21 Dec 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: December 21

      When producing a unit of output, the content of the knowledge gained can vary dramatically from one unit to the next. This suggests that while aggregate experience in learning-by-doing is generally valuable, not all prior experience has... View Details
      • 19 Mar 2019
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

      data from a large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line managers, we find that several key dimensions of managerial quality, like attention, autonomy, and control, are important for learning-by-doing as well as for overall... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • 17 Oct 2017
      • First Look

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

      by radio stations improves their capability to respond to entry by TV stations. Our research builds on and extends literatures on platforms and learning-by-doing and offers practical implications for managers in two-sided market settings.... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne