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- January 2018 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
Panoramic Power
By: Paul Gompers and Silpa Kovvali
Gompers, Paul, and Silpa Kovvali. "Panoramic Power." Harvard Business School Case 818-072, January 2018. (Revised January 2019.)
- 27 Jun 2022
- Lecture
The Power of Trust
By: Sandra J. Sucher
We were delighted to be joined by Professor Sandra Sucher of Harvard Business School, a leading researcher on management practice and the author of The Power of Trust, to explore the core elements underpinning trust in business and to talk about some real-world...
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Sucher, Sandra J. "The Power of Trust." Institute of Business Ethics (IBE), June 27, 2022.
- December 2007
- Article
Private Power in Indonesia
By: Louis T. Wells
The Asian Currency Crisis led to the collapse of agreements Indonesia had negotiated for private electric power only a few years earlier. The ensuing struggle meant bad publicity and several hundred million dollars in costs for Indonesia. As Indonesia in 2007 was...
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Keywords:
Energy Generation;
Government Legislation;
Knowledge Management;
Knowledge Sharing;
Risk Management;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Business and Government Relations;
Indonesia
Wells, Louis T. "Private Power in Indonesia." Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 43, no. 3 (December 2007): 341–364.
- Article
How Market Power Affects Dynamic Pricing: Evidence from Inventory Fluctuations at Car Dealerships
By: Ayelet Israeli, Fiona Scott-Morton, Jorge Silva-Risso and Florian Zettelmeyer
This paper investigates empirically the effect of market power on dynamic pricing in the presence of inventories. Our setting is the auto retail industry; we analyze how automotive dealerships adjust prices to inventory levels under varying degrees of market power. We...
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Keywords:
Dynamic Pricing;
Market Power;
Pricing;
Price Discrimination;
Inventory Production;
Marketing;
Price;
Competitive Strategy;
Auto Industry;
Retail Industry
Israeli, Ayelet, Fiona Scott-Morton, Jorge Silva-Risso, and Florian Zettelmeyer. "How Market Power Affects Dynamic Pricing: Evidence from Inventory Fluctuations at Car Dealerships." Management Science 68, no. 2 (February 2022): 895–916.
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's View Details
- May–June 2018
- Article
The Surprising Power of Questions
By: Alison Wood Brooks and Leslie K. John
Much of an executive’s workday is spent asking others for information—requesting status updates from a team leader, for example, or questioning a counterpart in a tense negotiation. Yet unlike professionals such as litigators, journalists, and doctors, who are taught...
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Keywords:
Interpersonal Communication;
Communication Strategy;
Information;
Knowledge Sharing;
Performance Effectiveness
Brooks, Alison Wood, and Leslie K. John. "The Surprising Power of Questions." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 3 (May–June 2018): 60–67.
- 2015
- Mimeo
Market Power in Mortgage Lending and the Transmission of Monetary Policy
By: David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam
We present evidence that high concentration in mortgage lending reduces the sensitivity of mortgage rates and refinancing activity to mortgage-backed security (MBS) yields. We isolate the direct effect of concentration and rule out alternative explanations in two ways....
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Keywords:
Mortgage Lending;
Market Power;
Monetary Policy Transmission;
Mortgages;
Banking Industry;
United States
Scharfstein, David S., and Adi Sunderam. "Market Power in Mortgage Lending and the Transmission of Monetary Policy." April 2015. Mimeo.
- 31 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator
annual salary offer of $115,000 is unfair on its own. They might be perfectly happy with that salary if it weren't for the information that it's below average." And it's not just a matter of money. In several studies of social comparison in the workplace, Larkin has...
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Keywords:
by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on Team Performance
- March 2015
- Module Note
Power and Influence in Society
By: Julie Battilana
This module aims to help students understand how power and influence are employed, both to reproduce the status quo and to effect change in society. It first helps them to understand why, more often than not, power is used to reproduce the existing way individuals and...
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Battilana, Julie. "Power and Influence in Society." Harvard Business School Module Note 415-055, March 2015.
- July 2002
- Article
Imbalance of Power
By: William W. George
Keywords:
Power and Influence
George, William W. "Imbalance of Power." Harvard Business Review 80, no. 7 (July 2002).
- September 2022 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
EnergyNow: Powering a New Market
By: Alexander MacKay and James Barnett
In August 2022, EnergyNow co-founder and CEO Stuart MacWilliam (MBA 2015) considers the company strategy for building solar panels to provide power in South Africa’s recently deregulated energy market.
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Development Economics;
Energy;
Alternative Energy;
Energy Generation;
Energy Sources;
Renewable Energy;
Entrepreneurship;
Environmental Management;
Ethics;
Geography;
Government and Politics;
Energy Policy;
Law;
Management;
Markets;
Market Timing;
Operations;
Energy Industry;
Utilities Industry;
Africa;
South Africa
MacKay, Alexander, and James Barnett. "EnergyNow: Powering a New Market." Harvard Business School Case 723-361, September 2022. (Revised February 2023.)
- November 1995 (Revised November 1999)
- Case
National Power and the Privatization of the British Power Generation Industry
By: Willis M. Emmons III and Ed Simnett
The British government privatized the nation's electric utility sector in 1991 through a complex process involving the restructuring of the industry as well as the creation of a new regulatory oversight body. National Power plc, the largest of the privatized power...
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Keywords:
Restructuring;
Trade;
Energy Generation;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Markets;
Monopoly;
Privatization;
Opportunities;
Diversification;
Expansion;
Energy Industry;
Utilities Industry
Emmons, Willis M., III, and Ed Simnett. "National Power and the Privatization of the British Power Generation Industry." Harvard Business School Case 796-066, November 1995. (Revised November 1999.)
- October 1957 (Revised June 1980)
- Case
Power Mowers, Inc.
Porterfield, James T. S. "Power Mowers, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 258-003, October 1957. (Revised June 1980.)
- July 2011
- Teaching Note
Suntech Power (TN)
Teaching Note for 712001.
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- November 1974 (Revised February 1976)
- Case
Bougainville Power Station
Wippern, Ronald F., Colin Carter, and Douglas Breeden. "Bougainville Power Station." Harvard Business School Case 275-060, November 1974. (Revised February 1976.)
- April 2017
- Teaching Plan
CLP: Powering Asia
By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and David Freiberg
Teaching Note for HBS No. 115-038.
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- January 1979
- Case
Georgia Power Co.
Keywords:
Energy Industry
Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Georgia Power Co." Harvard Business School Case 279-089, January 1979.
- August 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
Plug Power (A)
By: Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli and James Barnett
Set immediately after a December 2019 short-seller attack, the case explores Plug Power’s long challenging history. It then focuses on two key issues raised in the short-seller report related to lease accounting and stock warrants that Plug purportedly used to boost...
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Keywords:
Environmental Accounting;
Financial Reporting;
Ethics;
Management;
Social Enterprise;
Investment;
Stocks;
Energy Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
United States;
Europe
Heese, Jonas, Joseph Pacelli, and James Barnett. "Accounting Outages at Plug Power? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 124-009, August 2023. (Revised November 2023.)