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- January 2025
- Teaching Material
Get Cool: Air Conditioning Industry Background
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
| The “air conditioning paradox” is tied to climate change: the more the planet warms, the greater the need for cooling (due to the dangers of extreme heat as well as comfort within buildings), but the use of electricity-powered AC contributes to further warming. There... |
- January 2025
- Case
GE Appliances 2025: Energizing Change
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jacob A. Small
| At the turn of 2025, Kevin Nolan, CEO of GE Appliances following its acquisition by Chinese appliance giant Haier in 2016, is reviewing progress toward his net zero carbon vision for homes, which would otherwise exacerbate the global warming climate crisis. An... |
- January 2025
- Case
Blue Frontier: Disrupting Air Conditioning
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
| Serial entrepreneur Daniel Betts founded Blue Frontier in South Florida to offer a climate-friendly solution to increase air conditioning efficiency and dehumidify using new technology he developed. Backed by significant venture capital, Blue Frontier had to choose... |
- October 2024
- Teaching Material
Vineyard Wind Starts Spinning (B): Breakdown and (C): Recovery and Progress
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
| Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 325-054 and 325-055. |
- October 2024 (Revised November 2024)
- Teaching Material
Vineyard Wind Starts Spinning (B): Breakdown
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
- October 2024
- Teaching Material
Vineyard Wind Starts Spinning (C): Recovery and Progress
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
- July 2024
- Teaching Material
Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (B): The 2024 Tech Hub Proposal
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
| Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-119. |
- 11 Jun 2024
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
by Avery Forman
| What's on your vacation reading list? Harvard Business School faculty members plan to explore not only sober themes, such as philosophy and climate policy, but classic mysteries and hip-hop history. |
- June 2024
- Teaching Material
Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (A): The State of Play
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
| Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-119. Miami-Dade County led the work to get South Florida designated a national climate resilience tech hub, the only one of 31 focused on climate change, an urgent major issue for the region in light of global warming and sea level... |
- May 2024
- Teaching Material
Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (B): The 2024 Tech Hub Proposal
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
| Miami-Dade County led the work to get South Florida designated a national climate resilience tech hub, the only one of 31 focused on climate change, an urgent major issue for the region in light of global warming and sea level rise. Venture capitalists saw the... |
- May 2024
- Teaching Material
Vineyard Wind Starts Spinning: Overcoming Onshore Challenges to Offshore Wind
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
| Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-113. To activate the first wind turbines in the ocean off Martha’s Vineyard eventually supplying clean energy to 400,000 households, Vineyard Wind’s leaders had to navigate the permitting process, numerous delays, and objections from... |
- April 2024
- Teaching Material
'The Wheels on the Bus' Go Electric: Highland Electric Fleets and Partners
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
| Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-107. Founder Duncan McIntyre developed an innovative service-based business to electrify transportation fleets for school districts and scale through public-private partnerships while contributing to climate change solutions. The case... |