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  • 01 Aug 2013
  • News

A Cure for Cold Storage

percent of the children are vaccinated against the virus. And the price of the vaccine is negligible, says Schrader—around 5 or 10 cents. "It's not cost that limits it," he says, but rather infrastructure: Vaccines rely on a complex and costly chain of View Details
Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; vaccines; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • February 1995
  • Case

Torgovy Dom Preobrazhensky: Privatization of a Moscow Cold Storage Wholesaler

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Noreena Hertz
Keywords: Privatization; Moscow
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  • April 1987 (Revised May 1987)
  • Supplement

Inland Steel Co. Product Policy (M): Humidity-Controlled Inventory Storage in No. 3 Cold Mill

By: Benson P. Shapiro and Lawrence B. Levine
Keywords: Metals and Minerals; Steel Industry
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  • February 2013 (Revised December 2015)
  • Case

Groom Energy Solutions: Selling Efficiency

By: Michael W. Toffel, Kira R. Fabrizio and Stephanie van Sice
Groom Energy Solutions helps organizations reduce their energy use and costs through the implementation of energy efficiency measures, which create long-term financial and environmental benefits. With early success serving customers in the cold storage and industrial... View Details
Keywords: Groom Energy Solutions; Jon Guerster; Salem, MA; Energy Management; Energy Efficiency Paradox; Sustainability Management; Manufacturing; Cold Storage; Commercial Real Estate; Enterprise Smart Grid; Carbon Accounting; LED Lighting; Sustainability Research; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Entrepreneurship; Energy Entrepreneurship; Energy Services; Electricity; Startup; Expansion; Growth; Sustainability; Business Startups; Forecasting and Prediction; Energy Conservation; Revenue; Geographic Location; Human Resources; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Operations; Service Delivery; Strategic Planning; Science; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Society; Social Issues; Technology Adoption; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; United States; Boston
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  • June 2009 (Revised June 2009)
  • Case

VidaGas: VillageReach - The Mozambican Foundation for Community Development Joint Venture

This case describes the evolution of a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) distributor start-up, incubated by two not-for-profit NGOs to help improve the vaccine cold chain in Northern Mozambique. These NGOs must face the decision whether and how to sell their participation in... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Supply Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Investment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Health Industry; Mozambique
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  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

align impact with profit. Carbon Credit Ratings and Market Integrity: A Conversation on the Calyx Global Case 09 APR 2025 | Climate Rising In this bonus episode of Climate Rising, we share an episode from Harvard Business School’s Cold... View Details
  • Web

HBS Health Care Initiative - Blog: Health Supplement

skills to a solvable problem. Working with my co-founders, we saw an opportunity to supply much-needed vaccines worldwide without refrigeration or cold storage using silk. [...] Read more Load More... View Details
  • 14 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

building an inclusive healthcare infrastructure, since 70% of the country’s population resides in rural areas. Source: SELCO’s HBS Visit Briefing Booklet Remote locations and the lack of reliable energy often result in vaccine wastage, disrupting the integrity of the... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Saving lives through new vaccine technology

negligible, the problem is that shipping vaccines requires expensive cold storage and distribution. The solution that Vaxess provides is a room-temperature-storage technology using silk proteins, which... View Details
  • 08 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens

essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. Visit Date: January 12, 2023 On a View Details
  • Web

Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

we saw an opportunity to supply much-needed vaccines worldwide without refrigeration or cold storage using silk. During our first year as a bootstrapped startup, Vaxess won the inaugural Harvard President’s... View Details
  • 03 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Van den Ende Rozen

carbon dioxide for the greenhouses from a Shell refinery in Rotterdam. During the transition from gas-based heating to geothermal energy, the company also buys green power for their existing 15MW electric cogeneration facility. Cold View Details
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Letters to the Editor

Editor’s Note The December issue’s “Last Look” photo generated several richly detailed e-mails that appear below. Cold in the Wintertime I know the “Last Look” scene well, having lived at Harvard Way Extension from the summer of 1946... View Details
  • 06 May 2025
  • Blog Post

The Incredible Land of Ice and Fire: Exploring Iceland's Renewable Energy Model for a Changing Planet

greenhouses produce what students described as the most amazing tomatoes they have ever tasted. To sustain the tomato plants through the cold season, the Friðheimar greenhouses require approximately 2.5 megawatts of electrical power,... View Details
  • 15 Feb 2023
  • News

Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

affinity to CO2. It likes CO2. And typically, when cool or cold or coldish, it will absorb CO2. And then you kind of close off the chamber, you heat that sponge up, it gives up its CO2. DM: Then, of course, you have to do something with... View Details
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

the implementation of energy efficiency measures, which create long-term financial and environmental benefits. With early success serving customers in the cold storage and industrial manufacturing sectors,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne