Faculty & Research
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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 July 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... |
- 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 July 2024)
- 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... |
- 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–October 2023
- Harvard Business Review
The New Era of Industrial Policy Is Here
By: Willy C. Shih
| Governments around the world are increasingly intervening in the private sector through industrial policies designed to help domestic sectors reach goals that markets alone are unlikely to achieve. Companies in targeted sectors—such as automakers, energy companies, and... |
- August 2023 (Revised July 2024)
- Teaching Material
Power-to-X
By: Willy Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter
| To reduce greenhouse gas emissions that were contributing to climate change, the world needs to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Power-to-X (PtX) refers to an array of processes that convert electricity (power) to various gaseous and liquid... |
- August 2023 (Revised September 2023)
- Case
T.G.S. Transportation: Battery Electric or Hydrogen?
By: Willy C. Shih
| Peter Schneider, the President of T.G.S. Transportation, Inc., faced a choice. His company operated drayage trucks that moved containerized cargo between the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Oakland to customers across the State of California, with a focus on the... |
- July 2023
- Teaching Material
Sian Flowers: Fresher by Sea? – PowerPoint Supplement
By: Willy C. Shih and Michael W. Toffel
- July 2023 (Revised July 2023)
- Teaching Material
Sian Flowers: Fresher by Sea?
By: Willy C. Shih and Michael W. Toffel
- July 2023
- Teaching Material
Agricultural Innovation and Sustainability in the Netherlands
By: Willy C. Shih, Michael W. Toffel, Kelsey Carter, Jennifer Godfrey, Rafaella Mazza and Katrina Yeh
| This note describes some of the most significant agricultural innovations in the Netherlands, their drivers, environmental performance implications, some challenges facing the sector, and the potential replicability of these innovations to other contexts. |
- May 2023
- Case
CMA CGM: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Container Shipping
By: Willy C. Shih and Emilie Billaud
| 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... |