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- June 2015 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
American Electric Power: Facing the Challenges of Distributed Generation
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Hilary White
American Electric Power, like most utilities in the USA, is currently exposed to distributed generation and the problem of net-metering. Solar installations in particular have been heavily subsidized, by the state and by regulation, which does not allow grid operators...
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Keywords:
Electricity;
Utilities;
Electric Power Generation;
Net Metering;
Distributed Generation;
Disruptive Innovation;
Energy Markets;
Solar Power;
Wind Power;
Solar;
Wind;
Subsidies;
Legislation;
Regulation;
Disruption;
Energy;
Energy Generation;
Renewable Energy;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Information Technology;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Energy Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
Utilities Industry;
United States
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Hilary White. "American Electric Power: Facing the Challenges of Distributed Generation." Harvard Business School Case 716-008, June 2015. (Revised August 2018.)
- June 1995
- Case
Polaroid Corporation: European Distribution System
By: Janice H. Hammond and Afroze A Mohammed
Describes distribution operations in Polaroid Europe. In the late 1980s, Polaroid senior management in the United States proposed moving from a system of 12 decentralized warehouses to a centralized distribution system in which all inventory for European retailers...
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Keywords:
Distribution;
Operations;
Risk Management;
Distribution Channels;
Logistics;
Transition;
Strategy;
Problems and Challenges;
Industry Structures;
Consumer Products Industry;
Europe;
European Union;
United States
Hammond, Janice H., and Afroze A Mohammed. "Polaroid Corporation: European Distribution System." Harvard Business School Case 695-038, June 1995.
- 2012
- Working Paper
Organization Design for Distributed Innovation
Systems of distributed innovation—so-called business ecosystems—have become increasingly prevalent in many industries. These entities generally encompass numerous corporations, individuals, and communities that might be individually autonomous but related through their...
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Keywords:
Organizational Design;
Innovation and Management;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Intellectual Property;
Rights;
Governance Controls
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Organization Design for Distributed Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-100, May 2012.
- May 1987 (Revised October 1989)
- Case
General Electric Co.: Component Motor Operation, Distribution Channels for Consumer Aftermarket Motors
Corey, E. Raymond, and John E. P, Morrison. "General Electric Co.: Component Motor Operation, Distribution Channels for Consumer Aftermarket Motors." Harvard Business School Case 587-157, May 1987. (Revised October 1989.)
- 18 May 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Organization Design for Distributed Innovation
Keywords:
by Carliss Y. Baldwin
- March 2016
- Module Note
Government Policy and Distributive Justice
This note introduces the second of two main modules in the HBS elective curriculum course, The Role of Government in Market Economies (RoGME). This module is focused on policies, such as taxes, that change the distribution of economic outcomes. Like the...
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Weinzierl, Matthew. "Government Policy and Distributive Justice." Harvard Business School Module Note 716-072, March 2016.
- Article
Portfolio Value-at-Risk Optimization for Asymmetrically Distributed Asset Returns
By: Joel Goh, Kian Guan Lim, Melvyn Sim and Weina Zhang
We propose a new approach to portfolio optimization by separating asset return distributions into positive and negative half-spaces. The approach minimizes a newly-defined Partitioned Value-at-Risk (PVaR) risk measure by using half-space statistical information. Using...
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Goh, Joel, Kian Guan Lim, Melvyn Sim, and Weina Zhang. "Portfolio Value-at-Risk Optimization for Asymmetrically Distributed Asset Returns." European Journal of Operational Research 221, no. 2 (September 1, 2012): 397–406.
- December 2006 (Revised December 2008)
- Case
Wireless Generation
Reflecting on an innovative joint venture that his company executed with a public school district in 2004, the CEO of Wireless Generation, a five-year-old, privately held educational technology company, is contemplating the company's product development strategy in...
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Keywords:
Joint Ventures;
Education;
Government Legislation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Product Development;
Business and Government Relations;
Education Industry
Childress, Stacey M., and Sophie Elizabeth Lippincott. "Wireless Generation." Harvard Business School Case 307-049, December 2006. (Revised December 2008.)
- September 1972 (Revised February 1984)
- Case
Blanchard Importing and Distribution Co., Inc.
By: Paul W. Marshall
Illustration of the two main types of errors resulting from use of the economic order quantity (EOQ) as a tool in production scheduling. Designed to permit class discussion to begin with a consideration of one common type of mistake, errors in calculation of the EOQ...
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Marshall, Paul W. "Blanchard Importing and Distribution Co., Inc." Harvard Business School Case 673-033, September 1972. (Revised February 1984.)
- September 1996 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
Mobil USM&R (B): New England Sales and Distribution
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The general manager of a local gasoline/distillate sales and distribution business unit must communicate a new strategy to the unit's 300 employees. An initial strategic planning exercise identified a high-priority list of opportunities that blended the parent...
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Keywords:
Balanced Scorecard;
Adoption;
Strategic Planning;
Customization and Personalization;
Management Practices and Processes;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Measurement and Metrics;
Motivation and Incentives;
Performance Evaluation;
Energy Industry;
Mining Industry;
United States
Kaplan, Robert S. "Mobil USM&R (B): New England Sales and Distribution." Harvard Business School Case 197-026, September 1996. (Revised April 1998.)
- October 1999 (Revised March 2000)
- Case
HP Consumer Products Business Organization: Distributing Printers via the Internet
By: Rajiv Lal, Kirthi Kalyanam, Shelby Mc Intyre and Edie Prescott
In spring 1998, Pradeep Jotwani, vice president and general manager of the Consumer Products Business Organization of the Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), was contemplating the increasing success of e-commerce and its implications for his division. The consumer products group...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Marketing Channels;
Business Processes;
Problems and Challenges;
Partners and Partnerships;
Sales;
Business Strategy;
Information Technology;
Consumer Products Industry
Lal, Rajiv, Kirthi Kalyanam, Shelby Mc Intyre, and Edie Prescott. "HP Consumer Products Business Organization: Distributing Printers via the Internet." Harvard Business School Case 500-021, October 1999. (Revised March 2000.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Random Distribution Shift in Refugee Placement: Strategies for Building Robust Models
By: Kirk Bansak, Elisabeth Paulson and Dominik Rothenhäusler
Algorithmic assignment of refugees and asylum seekers to locations within host
countries has gained attention in recent years, with implementations in the U.S.
and Switzerland. These approaches use data on past arrivals to generate machine
learning models that can...
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Bansak, Kirk, Elisabeth Paulson, and Dominik Rothenhäusler. "Random Distribution Shift in Refugee Placement: Strategies for Building Robust Models." Working Paper, June 2023.
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest...
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- Teaching Interest
AMP 170 - General Management: Processes and Action
The Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program (AMP) helps drive corporate performance by honing individual capabilities to the highest level of performance. The result is a... View Details
- Mar 2020
- Conference Presentation
A New Analysis of Differential Privacy's Generalization Guarantees
By: Christopher Jung, Katrina Ligett, Seth Neel, Aaron Roth, Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi and Moshe Shenfeld
We give a new proof of the "transfer theorem" underlying adaptive data analysis: that any mechanism for answering adaptively chosen statistical queries that is differentially private and sample-accurate is also accurate out-of-sample. Our new proof is elementary and...
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Jung, Christopher, Katrina Ligett, Seth Neel, Aaron Roth, Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi, and Moshe Shenfeld. "A New Analysis of Differential Privacy's Generalization Guarantees." Paper presented at the 11th Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science Conference, Seattle, March 2020.
- Article
Dualities in Negotiation: Introduction
Richard Walton and Robert McKersie's closeness to practice, disciplinary rigor, and successful search for powerful generalizations help explain the lasting impact of their 1965 book, A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations. Central to their argument are three...
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Sebenius, James K. "Dualities in Negotiation: Introduction." Negotiation Journal 31, no. 4 (October 2015): 333–334.
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
Summing Up Consumer generated marketing is a fact of life to which all of us will have to adapt. Adaptation means learning how to use CGM to provide one form of input in fashioning product and marketing decisions. Those are the messages...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Dec 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?
- Article
Why A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations Remains a Triumph at Fifty but the Labels 'Distributive' and 'Integrative' Should Be Retired
Richard Walton and Robert McKersie's closeness to practice, disciplinary rigor, and successful search for powerful generalizations help explain the lasting impact of the Behavioral Theory of Labor Relations. Ironically, the names they chose for the fundamental...
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Sebenius, James K. "Why A Behavioral Theory of Labor Negotiations Remains a Triumph at Fifty but the Labels 'Distributive' and 'Integrative' Should Be Retired." Negotiation Journal 31, no. 4 (October 2015): 335–347.
- Article
Pattern Detection in the Activation Space for Identifying Synthesized Content
By: Celia Cintas, Skyler Speakman, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Victor Akinwande, Edward McFowland III and Komminist Weldemariam
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have recently achieved unprecedented success in photo-realistic image synthesis from low-dimensional random noise. The ability to synthesize high-quality content at a large scale brings potential risks as the generated samples may...
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Cintas, Celia, Skyler Speakman, Girmaw Abebe Tadesse, Victor Akinwande, Edward McFowland III, and Komminist Weldemariam. "Pattern Detection in the Activation Space for Identifying Synthesized Content." Pattern Recognition Letters 153 (January 2022): 207–213.