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- November 2024
- Case
Polish Agro: Where Do We Grow From Here?
By: Willy C. Shih, Lena Duchene and Daniela Beyersdorfer
| By July 2024, Polish Agro had grown into one of Poland’s fastest-growing agribusinesses, with 230 million in revenue, 82 employees, and operations across Northern Poland. The company supported farmers with essential agricultural inputs like fertilizers and seeds, while... |
- July 2024 (Revised December 2024)
- Teaching Material
District Heating: An Overview
By: Willy Shih and Michael W. Toffel
| This note provides an overview of district heating: systems in which central plants generate heat that is conveyed by steam or water through a set of insulated pipes to send heat to residential and/or commercial buildings. It describes key elements of the system (heat... |
- December 2023 (Revised November 2024)
- Teaching Material
Decarbonizing Shipping at A.P. Møller-Maersk (B)
By: Willy Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter
| This is a (B) case supplement to 624-049 Decarbonizing Shipping at A.P. Møller-Maetsk |
- November 2023 (Revised November 2024)
- Case
Decarbonizing Shipping at A.P. Møller-Maersk (A)
By: Willy Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter
| Container shipping was responsible for moving more than 80% of globally traded goods, and almost 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. A.P. Møller-Maersk, one of the top three container lines, conducted an extensive lifecycle assessment (LCA) of alternative fuels,... |
- November 2023 (Revised August 2024)
- Teaching Material
Life Cycle Assessment: An Overview
By: Willy C. Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter
| Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a holistic approach to quantifying the environmental impacts—including resources consumed and wastes produced—associated with the entire life cycle of a product, from the production or extraction of the raw materials used in its creation,... |
- November 2023 (Revised February 2025)
- Teaching Material
Corporate Climate Targets
By: Willy C. Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter
| Companies that are addressing climate change by mitigating their greenhouse gas emissions often set reduction targets. This note describes several types of widely used carbon reduction targets, including carbon neutral, science based, net zero, real zero, and carbon... |
- November 2023
- Teaching Material
Geely SEA: New Electric Vehicle Platforms
By: Willy Shih
| Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 622-001. Kent Bovellan, the Chief Engineer and Head of the Vehicle Architecture Center for Geely Holding, the Hangzhou, China headquartered global automotive group, was debating the platform choice for an upcoming "D" segment midsized... |
- September 2023
- Teaching Material
CMA CGM: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Container Shipping
By: Willy Shih
| 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, and the deep-sea segment, which... |
- September 2023
- Teaching Material
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,... |
- September 2023
- Teaching Material
CMA CGM: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Container Shipping
By: Willy Shih
| 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, and the deep-sea segment, which... |
- September 2023
- Teaching Material
CMA CGM: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Container Shipping
By: Willy C. Shih
| 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, and the deep-sea segment, which... |
- September 2023
- Teaching Material
Amager Bakke: Municipal Waste to Energy
By: Willy Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter
| This background note describes the Amager Bakke waste-to-energy (WtE) plant in Copenhagen, which merges traditional waste incineration with a combined heat and power (CHP) plant and air pollution control (scrubbing) technology, and had plans to add carbon dioxide (CO2)... |