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- 22 Sep 2016
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Building a Green Energy Grid
I figured the world didn’t need another wind developer as much as it needed someone who could figure out the transmission problem.” The complexity of expanding the US electric grid becomes clear when Skelly describes Clean Line’s $2.5... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
finding brands in every aisle that align with their values. An entire generation of these consumers expects their purchasing power to be deployed as a force for good, whether that means supporting humane... View Details
- 01 Jan 2010
- News
James A. Lovell, AMP 62, 1971
leadership skills became a matter of life or death. As the commander of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, Lovell and his crew were faced with a serious problem: a fault in the electrical equipment caused a loss of View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Invisible Edge: Taking Your Strategy to the Next Level Using Intellectual Property by Mark Blaxill (MBA ’84) and Ralph Eckardt (Portfolio) With the right intellectual property (IP) and the right strategies, companies can command premium prices, increase market share,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS
said that it might take dozens of generations before China achieves true development. By 2049, the 100th anniversary of China’s revolution, Wen would only predict that “we will have reached the level of a medium-developed society.”... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
reasonably to expect. Nobody wants to play a game where they find out after the final whistle whether the high or low score wins." Stevenson, who joined the HBS faculty in 1968, developed two real estate courses with a general management... View Details
- 19 May 2023
- News
Quiet Acceleration
company aims to sell 20 million electric vehicles a year by 2030—about a quarter of all new auto sales worldwide. (Last year, the company delivered 1.3 million EVs.) The company’s valuation, now at more than $500 billion, has increased... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
ethanol, solar, and clean-burning coal technology as particularly promising areas. Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82): The CEO of General Electric sees opportunity in clean and sustainable industrial products and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
Business Review, how the United States has lost or is in the process of losing the ability to manufacture many of the cutting-edge products it invented. These include the batteries that power electric and... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
batteries can be quickly inserted. He further notes that emissions created by charging an electric car’s batteries are less than the emissions produced by powering an internal combustion engine to cover the... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
“Crush it!” I was test-driving a Tesla Model S 75D under the watchful eye of Kristin, the “owner-advisor” tasked with accompanying me while I took one of Elon Musk’s battery-powered luxury cars for a spin on the Far West Side of Manhattan. Among their many virtues,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Recognizing Potential
as cochair. Stevens, managing director of S-Cubed Capital and a former managing partner at Sequoia Capital, has invested in Internet companies for nearly two decades, but it was his own encounter with distance learning 30 years ago that led him to appreciate the View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
UNC's “Accidental” Dean
23, 2003). It’s not quite as improbable as it seems. Jones grew up in western North Carolina and graduated from Chapel Hill in 1974. After earning his MBA, he worked for General Electric and McKinsey before... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Michelle Ross (MBA 2011)
customer’s problem a little better. Not that men don’t, but women do a very good job of managing different stakeholders, facilitating processes, and making sure everyone’s needs are met. At HBS we talked quite a bit about the difference between managing and leading,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Running faster to compete
in 1978 and put the now $26 million company on the international map with Aquamesh. As the company expanded, Knott implemented innovative, money-saving measures, such as generating electricity via... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Lessons from a Megacity
capital by foot, subte (subway), bus, and bright yellow bike-share bicycles. Pedestrian-only Florida Street in Buenos Aires. (Photos courtesy of John Macomber) Professor Macomber and students at the new electric View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
No Reason to Go Nuclear While I applaud the general thrust of Byron Wien’s “My Two Cents” contribution in the December issue, he wandered beyond his competency with the following statement: “We will need to View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Green as Gold
now achieve a 30 percent reduction in water usage. Sensors conserve electricity by automatically reducing interior lighting according to the amount of sunlight in a room. New bureaus, desks, and bookshelves were constructed from Plyboo, a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
reorganising like the eastern European elites, to take power subsequently. Spin-doctors also overstate aid commitments, while understating cost and casualties. Peaceniks likewise exaggerate difficulties. The only people putting national... View Details