Skip to Main Content
HBS Home
  • About
  • Academic Programs
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Research
  • Baker Library
  • Giving
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Initiatives
  • News
  • Recruit
  • Map / Directions
Working Knowledge
Business Research for Business Leaders
  • Browse All Articles
  • Popular Articles
  • Cold Call Podcasts
  • About Us
  • Leadership
  • Marketing
  • Finance
  • Management
  • Entrepreneurship
  • All Topics...
  • Topics
    • COVID-19
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Finance
    • Gender
    • Globalization
    • Leadership
    • Management
    • Negotiation
    • Social Enterprise
    • Strategy
  • Sections
    • Book
    • Cold Call Podcast
    • HBS Case
    • In Practice
    • Lessons from the Classroom
    • Op-Ed
    • Research & Ideas
    • Research Event
    • Sharpening Your Skills
    • What Do You Think?
    • Working Paper Summaries
  • Browse All
    • COVID-19 Business Impact Center
      COVID-19 Business Impact Center
      Cold Call
      A podcast featuring faculty discussing cases they've written and the lessons they impart.
      Subscribe on iTunes
      • 06 Apr 2021
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Disrupting the Waste Industry with Technology

      Rubicon began with a bold idea: create a cloud-based, full-service waste management platform, providing efficient service anywhere in the US. Their mobile app did for waste management what Uber had done for taxi service. Five years after the case’s publication, Harvard Business School Associate Professor Shai Bernstein and Rubicon founder and CEO Nate Morris discuss how the software startup leveraged technology to disrupt the waste industry and other enduring lessons of professor Bill Sahlman’s case about Rubicon.  Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

      Read the Transcript

      Filter Results: (52) Arrow Down
      Filter Results: (52) Arrow Down Arrow Up
      • Popular
      • Browse All Articles
      • About Us
      • Newsletter Sign-Up
      • RSS
      • Popular
      • Browse All Articles
      • About Us
      • Newsletter Sign-Up
      • RSS

      Utilities Remove Utilities →

      Page 1 of 52 Results →
      • 29 Jan 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

      by Michael Blanding

      The popularity of green bonds as a way to finance environmentally friendly projects is on the upswing, say Malcolm Baker and George Serafeim. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 04 Feb 2018
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Long-Run Dynamics of Electricity Demand: Evidence from Municipal Aggregation

      by Alexander MacKay, Tatyana Deryugina, and Julian Reif

      This study provides the first quasi-experimental estimate of the long-run elasticity (responsiveness) of residential electricity demand, and finds that it is about double the short-run elasticity. Our findings highlight the importance of accounting for consumption dynamics when evaluating energy policy.

      • 15 May 2017
      • Sharpening Your Skills

      The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

      by Sean Silverthorne

      Recent stories chart the rise of big data, its impact on business, and how it affects our lives every day. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 07 Aug 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

      by Carmen Nobel

      Joe Lassiter believes the smart use of nuclear power is an essential ingredient in fighting the worldwide threat of coal-fired power plant emissions. Open for comment; 2 Comment(s) posted.

      • 17 Jun 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      Michael Porter on America’s Historic Energy Opportunity

      America is caught in a divisive debate over energy strategy, which threatens our nation's economic and environmental goals. "There is an urgent need for the US to get on a new path," according to a new report by Michael E. Porter, David S. Gee, and Gregory J. Pope. Open for comment; 1 Comment(s) posted.

      • 13 Apr 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

      by Carmen Nobel

      Rebecca Henderson lays out three ways for firms to profit from investing in environmental sustainability: forestalling risk, increasing operational efficiency, and selling to the environmental niche. Open for comment; 2 Comment(s) posted.

      • 23 Jan 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?

      Oil producers are in shock, and consumers are shockingly happy. Richard Vietor discusses the geopolitical changes around dropping oil prices—and how long this all might last. Open for comment; 4 Comment(s) posted.

      • 24 Sep 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      The Business of Climate Change

      Re: Multiple Faculty

      What is the role of business and its leade