Christian Kaps

Harvard Business School

Monday, December 14, 2026 –05:15 – 06:30 PM (CET)

This session will be held as a hybrid event. To join in person, you can come to room O 133 (i.e., room 133 on level 1 of the east wing of the castle). 

Speaker Bio
Christian Kaps is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on emerging topics in sustainable electricity generation and storage, notably how new technologies, sustainability behavior, and policies shape the energy market of the future. Depending on the research question and problem at hand, he has conducted modelling work, employed structural estimation, and utilized machine learning tools.

Christian Kaps received his PhD in Operations Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was advised by Serguei Netessine. Prior to his doctoral studies at Wharton, he graduated summa cum laude from the Rotterdam School of Management with an MSc in Supply Chain Management. He received his BSc in Business Administration from WHU.

He primarily teaches Technology and Operations Management to MBA students and is a faculty associate at the Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab and the Salata Institute at Harvard University, as well as the Business and the Environment Initiative at Harvard Business School.

Admission information
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