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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
want to invest!” Social Enterprise Track Business: EGG-Tech, a for-profit enterprise that will provide a battery charging and swapping subscription service to households in Tanzania, where 35 million people live without electricity. Team:...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Powering on wireless electricity
Eric Giler (MBA 1982) is fueled by a mission to never have to “plug in” again. The CEO of WiTricity, a startup revolutionizing science with its magnetic resonance technology, hopes to soon relegate electrical wires and batteries to the...
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- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
equipment manufacturer) approval for battery health, and the first to earn revenue for fleet customers from utilities. “We’re in the education business since we’re offering a new service,” Claire explained. “We sell electric vehicle...
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- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
of Energicity. “Modern life as we know it is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the struggles firsthand in rural Ghana, where her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly flammable kerosene and expensive flashlight View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
How Green Was My (Silicon) Valley
DOERR AND ADVISEE: From bits and bytes to batteries and biofuels. Saul Loeb/Afp/Getty Images “A boyish billionaire in glasses,” John Doerr (MBA ’76) began to shift his focus from bits and bytes to batteries...
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- 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, and the View Details
- 14 Jan 2022
- News
Power Play
Courtesy Rahul Advani, Sara Graziano, Chris Smith When Rahul Advani (MBA 2004) began his investment career in 1996, focused on the energy sector, he thought a future of accessible and affordable clean energy was a ways off. But as he watched innovations like View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
travels 100 miles on a single battery charge. Ghosn notes that 80 percent of the world’s daily driving is less than 50 miles. While electric car owners can charge up at home in a multihour process (usually overnight), Ghosn envisions...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
a battery startup, and this experience along with the conversations I had with HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD), convinced me to pursue an internship at a battery startup. Exploring the...
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- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
second semester I worked with him to develop a market research report for a battery startup that he was advising. This, along with the conversations I had with CPD Career Coaches Oscar Mak and Ryan Kim, convinced me to pursue an...
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- 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 solar panels. As a result, Shih says, the country risks...
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- 18 Apr 2018
- News
Into the Light
Energicity. “Modern life, as we know it, is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the human and economic costs of “energy poverty” firsthand in rural Ghana. There, her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly flammable kerosene and expensive...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
matrix. At the end of the day, there was cause for celebration among both presenters and funders. One ringing endorsement of Springboard came from Oliver D. Curme (MBA '82), general partner of Battery Ventures. Although Curme admitted he...
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- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
international products often fail to accommodate the local nuances of climate, traffic, and regulatory dynamics. Log 9's commitment to customizing battery technology for the extreme heat and humid conditions common in India’s environment...
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- 14 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
New MBA Course Asks Students: What’s More Important—Purpose or Profits?
Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS). Over two days, 11 faculty members from across the School taught five new cases involving companies ranging from Microsoft to Sweden’s Northvolt electric battery maker, raising...
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Ian Naccarella
Ian has experience in the Climate Tech space from a variety of roles, including time spent at Sila Nanotechnologies (a battery startup), SE Ventures (VC), and at BCG in the Climate and Sustainability practice area. He also spent the...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power to change nuclear waste into cost-efficient energy
planet, if we don’t find some solution like this,” says Wilcox, an entrepreneur whose first venture was E Ink, the company that created the display technology for the Kindle, Nook, and other popular e-readers. With their easy-on-the-eyes screens, long View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
directly to dealers in Seattle and mangoes to buyers in Europe.” Lack of infrastructure is a major challenge, notes Duch. “We’re helping them to establish logistics platforms, sales forces, and phone-based payment services, using power from car View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Numbers Talk at Tesla
conservative, disciplined approach. At the end of 2018, Tesla’s cash on hand totals stood at $3.7 billion; that total was $14.5 billion for the third quarter of 2020. That’s money the carmaker can use for global expansion, including new auto and View Details
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Sealed tight in sanitary packages - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
throughout the United States. Immediately after pasteurization, these ingenious machines foil-wrap and seal the cheese in air-tight, dust-proof, sanitary packages to protect its purity and freshness. The operation is automatic from beginning to end. This View Details