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  • January 2021
  • Case

“GEnron?” Markopolos versus General Electric (A)
By: Jonas Heese and David Lane
In August 2019, Harry Markopolos—the forensic accountant known for uncovering Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme—alleged that General Electric had committed accounting fraud totaling $38 billion, coining the term “GEnron” for perceived similarities with the 2001 accounting...  View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Communication; energy; Financial Condition; Insurance; Performance; Planning; Business And Shareholder Relations; Risk And Uncertainty; Value; Insurance Industry; Financial Services Industry; energy Industry
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  • November 2020
  • Case

Holaluz: Taking on the Spanish Energy Market
By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg, Elena Corsi and Emer Moloney
In 2020, the three cofounders of Holaluz, a newcomer to Spain’s electricity retail market, is preparing to launch a new offering: installing and managing solar panels on households' roofs at no extra cost for the consumer, who would still benefit from the energy...  View Details
Keywords: Electricity; Solar Power; Subscription Business; Renewable energy; Entrepreneurship; Service Delivery; Business Model; Product Launch; Marketing; energy Industry; Spain
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  • October 2020
  • Supplement

Essent: From a State-Owned Utility to a Commercial Company (B)
By: Ananth Raman and Elena Corsi
Keywords: Lean Management; Operation Management; Organizational Change And Adaptation; energy Industry; Netherlands
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting
By: Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun and Quoc H. Nguyen
No firm or sector of the global economy is untouched by innovation. In equilibrium, innovators will flock to (and innovation will occur where) the returns to innovative capital are the highest. In this paper, we document a strong empirical pattern in green patent...  View Details
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 6 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 1: Mapping Functional Relationships
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
Organizations are formed in a free economy because an individual or group perceives value in carrying out a technical recipe that is beyond the capacity of a single person. Technology specifies what must be done, what resources must be assembled, what actions taken in...  View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Technology; Organizations; Value Creation
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  • September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
  • Case

d.light
By: Michael Chu, Krishna G. Palepu and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha
Kenyan off-grid-solar pioneer d.light can power entire homes in rural Africa but must now decide how to fund the growth of its asset-heavy business model. Ned Tozun and Sam Goldman founded d.light in 2006 to transform lives through solar solutions enabling access to...  View Details
Keywords: Alternative energy; Business Model; Capital; Emerging Markets; Expansion; Financial Strategy; Renewable energy; Strategy; Social Entrepreneurship; energy Industry; Africa; Kenya; India
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  • September 2020
  • Article

Creativity, Artificial Intelligence, and a World of Surprises
By: Teresa M. Amabile
In recent years, progress has been made toward AI Creativity, which I define as the production of highly novel, yet appropriate, ideas, problem solutions, or other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation...  View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Ai Creativity; Computer Science; Organizational Behavior; Psychology; Creativity; Technological Innovation
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 3 Transaction Free Zones
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
In Chapter 2 we saw that the most economical locations for transactions in a task network are the so-called thin crossing points—places where transfers are easy to define, count and pay for. However, in many places in the task network, transfers of material, energy,...  View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Technology; Organizations
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  • September 2020
  • Case

GreenFire Energy, 2020: Geothermal Innovation
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In June 2020, GreenFire Energy Inc. (GreenFire) presented its report to the California Energy Commission indicating that its proof of concept project to demonstrate its new geothermal electricity generation technology, ECO2G™, had been a success. While conventional...  View Details
Keywords: Geothermal Electricity; Renewable energy; energy Generation; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Strategy; Decision Choices And Conditions
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  • August 2020
  • Case

24M Technologies
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2020, 24M Technologies (24M) announced that two of its strategic investors had commenced building plants to produce lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries based on 24M’s novel semi-solid electrode technology. This promised to halve the cost of conventional Li-ion...  View Details
Keywords: Lithium-ion Batteries; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Growth And Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy
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  • August 2020 (Revised November 2020)
  • Case

Gogoro: From Electric Scooter to Energy Platform
By: Tarun Khanna and Billy Chan
The founder of Gogoro had always wanted to revolutionize the energy market from day one since he started the electric scooter business that featured an innovative battery swapping technology. Over the course of five years, he had developed a premium line of electric...  View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; energy; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Strategy; Taiwan
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  • August 2020 (Revised September 2020)
  • Case

India 2020 – Governance and Growth
By: Richard H. K. Vietor
In January 2012, the government of India faced significant challenges to achieving three key objectives of high growth, inclusive development, and improved governance. The economy was experiencing a growth slowdown, persistently high inflation, and infrastructure and...  View Details
Keywords: Governance; Government And Politics; Problems And Challenges; Economic Growth; India
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  • July 2020
  • Case

CSL Capital Management: Patriot Proppants (A)
By: Victoria Ivashina and Yury Kapko
This two-part case series follows CSL Capital’s 2009 investment in the greenfield manufacturing company, Patriot Proppants. CSL, a recently established investment firm, employs a unique investment model, funding new ("green field") energy service businesses that serve...  View Details
Keywords: Investment; Renewable energy; Business Model; Decision Making
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  • July 2020
  • Supplement

CSL Capital Management: Patriot Proppants (B)
By: Victoria Ivashina and Yury Kapko
This two-part case series follows CSL Capital’s 2009 investment in the greenfield manufacturing company, Patriot Proppants. CSL, a recently established investment firm, employs a unique investment model, funding new ("greenfield") energy service businesses that serve...  View Details
Keywords: Investment; Renewable energy; Decision Making
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Forgoing Earned Incentives to Signal Pure Motives
By: Erika L. Kirgios, Edward H. Chang, Emma E. Levine, Katherine L. Milkman and Judd B. Kessler
Policy makers, employers, and insurers often provide financial incentives to encourage citizens, employees, and customers to take actions that are good for them or for society (e.g., energy conservation, healthy living, safe driving). Although financial incentives are...  View Details
Keywords: Incentives; Motivation Laundering; Self-signaling; Motivation And Incentives; Behavior; Perception
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  • May 2020
  • Case

Schlumberger's WesternGeco Division
By: John R. Wells, Sneha Biswas and Benjamin Weinstock
In October 2017, Maurice Nessim, President of WesternGeco, a business unit of Schlumberger, faced a difficult decision. In the face of falling oil prices and increasing pressure on costs, did it make sense to sell off the company’s specialized fleet of seismic survey...  View Details
Keywords: Market Entry And Exit; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Decision Making; Strategy; Competitive Advantage; energy Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • May 2020
  • Teaching Note

Big Boom Beverages: Fight or Flight? (Brief Case)
By: Stephen A. Greyser and William Ellet
Teaching Note for HBS Brief Case No. 920-557. The case addresses analysis and decisions related to the entrepreneurial life of a distinctive energy beverage, including its niche market launch, early problems, reformulation, social media impact, market success, and...  View Details
Keywords: Alcoholic Beverages; Energy Drinks; Regulation; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Marketing Communications; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Reputation; Communication Strategy; Decision Making
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  • May 2020
  • Case

Big Boom Beverages: Fight or Flight?
By: Stephen A. Greyser and William Ellet
Four college friends market a beverage that combines ingredients like those in a drink they consumed in college bars. It includes a caffeinated energy drink, malt liquor, and a soft drink flavoring. They launch the business, Big Boom Beverages (BBB), with their own...  View Details
Keywords: Alcoholic Beverages; Energy Drinks; Regulation; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Marketing Communications; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Reputation; Communication Strategy; Decision Making
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  • 2020
  • Book

Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity
By: Joseph Allen and John D. Macomber
By the time you reach 80, you will have spent 72 years of your life indoors. Like it or not, humans have become an indoor species. This means that the people who design, build, and maintain our buildings can have a major impact on our health.
Ever feel tired...  View Details
Keywords: Architecture; Real Estate Development; Air Pollution; Air Quality; Public Health; Productivity Gains; Buildings And Facilities; Health; Pollutants; Performance Productivity; Construction Industry
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  • April 7, 2020
  • Editorial

The Pandemic and the Price of Power
By: Rawi Abdelal
Keywords: energy Industry; Russia; Saudi Arabia
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