Christian Kaps
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Christian Kaps is an Assistant Professor of business administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at Harvard Business School. Kaps' research focuses on emerging topics in renewable electricity generation and storage - notably how new technologies, sustainability behavior, and policies shape the energy market of the future. He teaches the first-year TOM course in the required curriculum.
His primary research interest is in the energy transition with a particular focus on how the evolution of storage technologies shapes capacity and investment decisions in renewable power and fossil-fuel plants. Additionally, he focuses on the role that customers' sustainable behavior plays in accelerating the adoption of new technologies and how local differences influence the setup of power markets around the world. While his main research focus is on the energy field, Kaps' interests lie in the areas of sustainability and technology innovation more broadly. As he believes that no single actor can solve climate change related challenges alone, he has partnered with firms ranging from storage startups to large renewable investors like AWS for his academic work.
Professor Kaps earned his PhD in Operations Management at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a MSc in Supply Chain Management from the Rotterdam School of Management and received his BSc in Business Administration at WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
- Journal Articles
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- 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. View Details
- Balk, B.M., M.R. De Koster, Christian Kaps, and J.L. Zofio. "An Evaluation of Cross-efficiency Methods: With an Application to Warehouse Performance." Art. 126261. Applied Mathematics and Computation 406 (October 1, 2021). View Details
- Working Papers
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- Kaps, Christian, and Santiago Gallino. "Solar and Wind Capacity Limits in Electricity Grids with Hydropower." Working Paper, 2022. View Details
- Rana, Vishrut, Christian Kaps, and Serguei Netessine. "Quality-Adjusted-Power: How to Decide Where to Site Renewables." Working Paper, August 2023. View Details
- Kaps, Christian, and Serguei Netessine. "Residential Battery Storage - Reshaping the Way We Do Electricity." Working Paper, February 2024. View Details
- Awards & Honors
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Winner of the 2024 Best PhD Paper Award from the Commodity & Energy Markets Association for "Residential Battery Storage - Reshaping the Way We Do Electricity" with Serguei Netessine.Winner of the 2024 People’s Choice Flash Talk Award at the INFORMS Early-Career Sustainable Operations Workshop for “Power vs. Energy - When to Transition Between Storage Technologies” with Simone Marinesi.Winner of the 2023 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Meritorious Service Award.Awarded Runner-up for the 2023 ENRE Young Researcher Prize from INFORMS for "Privately-Owned Battery Storage - Reshaping the Way We Do Electricity" with Serguei Netessine.Awarded Second Place in the 2023 TIMES Best Working Paper Competition from the Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section of INFORMS for “Privately-Owned Battery Storage: Reshaping The Way We Do Energy” with Serguei Netessine.Awarded Runner-Up in the 2023 POMS PITM Student Paper Competition from the College of Product Innovation and Technology Management College (PITM) of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) for “Privately-Owned Battery Storage—Reshaping The Way We Do Electricity.”Awarded Runner-up in the 2023 POMS CSOM Student Paper Competition from the College of Service Operations Management at the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) for "Privately-Owned Battery Storage - Reshaping The Way We Do Electricity " with Serguei Netessine.Received Honorable Mention in the 2022 POMS CSO Student Paper Competition from the College of Sustainable Operations (CSO) of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) for “When Should the Off-Grid Sun Shine at Night? Optimum Renewable Generation and Energy Storage Investments” with Simone Marinesi, and Serguei Netessine.Winner of the 2019 Dutch Material Handling Thesis Award for “Towards Better Warehouse Efficiency Distinction through Cross-Efficiency Measurement.“Awarded the 2018 SmartPort Thesisprice (Thesis Prize) from SmartPort in collaboration with the Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University for “Towards Better Warehouse Efficiency Distinction through Cross-Efficiency Measurement.“Winner of the 2017 Jo Van Nunen Award in Supply Chain Management from Rotterdam School of Management for his thesis “Towards Better Warehouse Efficiency Distinction through Cross-Efficiency Measurement.“
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