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- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
highly local. This means that industrial commons can have a local character as well. As a result, companies located in some places have advantages over others by virtue of their access to the appropriate set of workers, engineers, managerial talent, suppliers, and... View Details
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
in the area of energy storage and green energy production, for example, including lithium ion batteries for cell phones and laptops, silicon solar cells, and power semiconductors for View Details
- Web
Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Once in a Lifetime Opportunities In 2011, at 26 years of age, Kasia Stochniol (MBA 2014) packed her bags and moved to Nairobi, Kenya. After previous professional experience as a consultant, she joined the early team at M-KOPA, a social enterprise that today is bringing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
lost not only its ability to develop and manufacture high-tech products like televisions, memory chips, and laptops, but also the expertise to produce emerging “hot products” such as the Kindle e-reader, high-end servers, solar panels,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
panelists were collectively bullish on solar energy, electric drive technology that powers hybrid and electric cars, and biofuels (including ethanol). By contrast, they were cautiously optimistic about clean... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
Business Review, how the United States has lost or is in the process of losing the ability to manufacture many of the cutting-edge products it invented. These include the batteries that power electric and hybrid cars, light-emitting... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
electric systems—used in remote power and emerging grid-connected markets. The PV modules produced by Evergreen Solar incorporate proprietary crystalline silicon technology known as String Ribbon. In 1996,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire way to strengthen the economy, improve society, and provide endless opportunities for entrepreneurs. Big opportunities. But modernization of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
focus. Before long his first novel, Heartlight, the story of an astrophysicist and his granddaughter who try to save the solar system, was published to glowing notices, including this encomium from author Madeleine L'Engle: "This is one... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
cameras are almost expendable devices, offering much less quality but good enough to be incorporated into cell phones and PDAs reaching mass markets. Solar cells met limited success as alternative energy sources to the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
finding brands in every aisle that align with their values. An entire generation of these consumers expects their purchasing power to be deployed as a force for good, whether that means supporting humane working conditions or social or... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
paper estimates that the electrical efficiency of computation has doubled roughly every year and a half for more than six decades, outpacing Moore's law. The paper shows also that the costs of wind and solar View Details
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Finalists | New Venture Competition
Ilhan (MBA 2025) Jakob Spiess (MBA 2025) Pioneering sustainable biopolymer production. Solara Rea Savla (MBA 2024) Vishesh Mehta Providing an on-demand solar irrigation service to Indian farmers, increasing their access to affordable,... View Details
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
collaborative tasks from writing assignments to playing digital instruments. At the same time it needed to address constraints such as the lack of electrical power in many remote rural areas—a problem it solves in several ways. Kids can... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
solar power startup. In Lagos, they had dinner with Yemi Osinbajo, vice president of Nigeria. The immersion, which included faculty from nearly every unit at the School, was a weeklong deep dive and included... View Details
- 13 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably
sustainability initiatives in their supply chain, including a pilot program equipping commercial trucks with solar panels that power the trucks loading and unloading chain, we remain curious about other... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
the return predictability. In addition, we find that sell-side analysts are subject to these same information processing constraints, as their forecast revisions of easy-to-analyze firms predict their future revisions of more complicated firms. The Growing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
is one of energy and that however you slice it, we’re going to run out of energy. Today you could cover the entire Nevada desert with solar cells and you could take care of all the energy needs of the entire planet. But if you... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
bridges, water, power and more? It’s not because they don’t aspire to. It’s because they lack the money and the expertise (in African cities) or because they can’t get to political consensus (in the United States)—or because there are... View Details