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  • July 1987
  • Case

Sun Refining and Marketing Co. (A)

By: D. Quinn Mills and G Bruce Friesen
Keywords: Energy Industry
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  • April 1993 (Revised September 1996)
  • Case

ABB Deutschland (B)

By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
Focuses in detail on implementing a corporate restructuring program in ABB's German subsidiary. Special attention is given to Germany's unique form of industrial governance. Two major problem areas--power plants and power transformers--are described in detail, as is a... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Restructuring; Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Governance; Leadership Style; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Sales; Opportunities; Energy Industry; Germany
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  • Profile

Kayode Ogunro

How has your HBS experience shaped your career path? My HBS experience played a very important role in shaping my career path. More than anything my MBA experience gave me a platform on which to explore my passions and career interests and define my path. I found... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Extractive Minerals; Energy / Extractive Minerals; Energy / Extractive Minerals; Energy / Extractive Minerals; Energy / Extractive Minerals

    Irving S. Shapiro

    position, Shapiro shepherded duPont through the energy crisis of the 1970s, forcing the company to engage in more production of raw chemicals. During his tenure, duPont’s revenues grew from $5 billion in 1973 to $13.7 billion in 1980. View Details
    Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
    • February 2017
    • Case

    GE Digital

    By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson
    Known for manufacturing industrial equipment, GE has decided to invest in software and analytics capabilities to become a digital industrial company. They have also created a software platform that they hope will power the Industrial Internet. GE executives forecasted... View Details
    Keywords: GE; General Electric; Manufacturing; Industrial Internet; Wind Power; Digital Manufacturing; Renewable Energy; Energy; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Transformation; Green Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; North America
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    • 18 Dec 2023
    • Blog Post

    Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale

    join a wide range of panel discussions featuring industry experts in the following areas: Decarbonizing Farming; Food Supply Chain and Waste; Scaling Green Energy Generation; Hard to Decarbonize Sectors; Carbon Markets; Reimagining the... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2011
    • News

    Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side

    passionate he was about HBS. I knew he would bring his customary relish and gusto, but even I was surprised at the enormous energy he put into it. He had a wonderful impact on our alumni and made deep personal connections with them.... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 07 Jul 2016
    • News

    Creating a Viable Future in Rural Africa

    for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technology for the Environment (CREATE!), she says, “We are training very capable people to do things they never knew existed and to achieve mastery of them.” Established in 2008, CREATE! establishes... View Details
    • 13 Apr 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Implied Materiality and Material Disclosures of Credit Ratings

    Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans; Financial Services; Accounting
    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    The Economic and Environmental Effects of Making Electricity Infrastructure Excludable

    By: Husnain Fateh Ahmad, Ayesha Ali, Robyn C. Meeks, Zhenxuan Wang and Javed Younas
    Electricity theft occurs when individuals cannot be excluded from accessing services. We study the impacts of an infrastructure upgrade in Karachi, Pakistan -- converting bare distribution wires to aerial bundled cables (ABCs) -- that was intended to prevent illegal... View Details
    Keywords: Infrastructure; Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Utilities Industry; Pakistan
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    • 2009
    • Case

    The North America Environmental Fund (NAEF)

    By: Roberto Charvel, Fernando Fabre and T. Putimahtama
    NAEF was the first VC fund created in Latin America. It was also the first fund to focus on green technologies. The fund and its managers confronted several issues regarding the under-developed governance and cultural structures required for succesful VC investments. View Details
    Keywords: Clean Tech; Emerging Market; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Governance; Technology; Green Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; North and Central America
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    • 09 Sep 2013
    • News

    Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

    Keywords: Business and Environment Initiative; Agriculture; Finance
    • September 2023
    • Teaching Note

    CMA CGM: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Container Shipping

    By: Willy Shih
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 623-006. Marine transport is the most cost-effective way to move large volumes over long distances, and container shipping is the backbone of international trade in goods. Yet shipping contributed 3% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions,... View Details
    Keywords: Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Ship Transportation; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Regulation; Trade; Energy Conservation; Transportation Industry; Shipping Industry; Europe
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    • February 2011
    • Supplement

    The Fox Islands Wind Project (B)

    By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Evan Richardson
    Fox Island Wind Cooperative faces criticism from local residents. View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Cooperative Ownership; Business and Community Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Maine
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    • 22 Jul 2022
    • Blog Post

    Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power

    in the carbon mitigation industry. “This is a great time to be a clean energy innovator.” – Janice Tran, CEO and co-founder of Kanin Energy On July 12, 2022, Kanin Energy CEO... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2010
    • News

    HBS Wins Green Business Award

    64 cubic yards of growing medium spread over 5,000 square feet and planted with 9,000 perennials, photovoltaic panels, a cogeneration unit, and a full lighting retrofit. Since 2003, HBS has enacted more than 100 energy conservation... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Thomas Nassim

    lost and found. I plan to conduct a great symphony. Energy will crackle from the tip of my soaring baton, sparks flying in shimmering arcs over the audience. The timpani booms, the violins sing, the trumpets blare triumphant. Harmony... View Details
    • Portrait Project

    Sadiq Gillani

    "Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better. And your better best." With these words my mother inspired me throughout my childhood I am going to apply that energy to help transform the airline industry and,... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2015
    • News

    High Yields

    from inspecting bridges to tracking energy usage. But the biggest vertical of all—one expected to account for 80 percent of the commercial market—is in agriculture. Using a Hawk Aerial drone and some high-tech spectral analysis, farmers... View Details
    Keywords: Francis Storrs
    • 25 Apr 2014
    • News

    MBAs go down the road less traveled to work with entrepreneurs

    entrepreneurs with humility and curiosity, and lending our skills, experience, and energy to the task of improving our communities and our economy," says Singer. The team provided advice on everything from operational improvements to... View Details