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- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
in emissions is enVerid’s Sorbent Ventilation Technology. Commercial buildings contribute 17 percent of US carbon emissions, and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) is responsible for 36 percent of commercial-building energy... View Details
- 03 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Zurich
climate in one intimate conversation and we all learned from each other’s far-ranging experiences. Personally, I felt completely energized by the range of activities these alumni are engaged in around the world, from critical forestation projects in Burkina Faso to... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories
United States’ Clean Energy Future Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Through Project Finance View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands
geothermal heating facility powered by natural lake cooling to improve energy efficiency as it wrestles with rising energy prices in the EU from the Ukraine War. They also use... View Details
- 07 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree
lives is front of mind for me because the role energy in society has had an outsized influence on my life. Ultimately, my ambition is to leverage my experiences, network, and newly gained knowledge base from my time at Harvard to help... View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
Lucio A. Noto
Noto first concentrated on consolidating and improving efficiency in Mobil's oil, gas and chemical businesses, including trimming bureaucracy at the corporate level. Noto also revamped Mobil's retail gasoline business, being one of the... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 20 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
upgrades are implemented to ensure quality at the point of use. Improving energy efficiency at treatment plants, such as adopting renewable energy or advanced... View Details
Philip Sporn
Sporn was one of the foremost contributors to the growth in the consumption and dissemination of electric power. A tireless advocate for the industry, Sporn’s efforts were aimed at greater efficiency of operations through technological... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
covers all aspects of the energy business. "One idea that I believe will be discredited is the mega-merger theory — that Texaco was too small to be relevant." "Fortunately, there are still strategies that allow a smaller operator to be... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
“You are seeing meaningful renewable programs in most states, and that’s both good news and bad news.” Using the example of her own company, a private equity firm investing in the energy sector, she explained the challenges of working... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
sample of 42 others that didn't. The researchers focused on several measures that capture socially responsible management practices including the social responsibility of business leaders, sustainable development, employee training, View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
the entire earth with solar cells, which is not practical and won’t happen. You could say, “Well, more energy efficiency is the answer.” But every energy View Details
- Web
Demo Day | New Venture Competition
that automates the customs brokerage process end-to-end to improve the efficiency of logistics companies. Kykloris Hande Ilhan (MBA 2025) Kykloris installs modular systems in industrial seafood processing facilities, converting waste into... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
achieve net-zero-energy demand by pairing ultra-low energy use with solar panels for energy production. But Harper’s home goes even further than that select group—achieving net-positive-energy... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
calling for using city investments in energy efficiency to generate savings that would be reinvested in solar power. Inspired by their success, Dawe took an 80 percent pay cut and moved to Colorado to work... View Details
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
efficiency on both sides and accelerating the energy transition. PARTICIPANTS - SOCIAL ENTERPRISE TRACK Lokale - Farand Anugerah (MBA 2025) - Address stunting, empower community with organic fruit farming,... View Details
- 24 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco
efficiency to cut down on emissions, a robotics company that is focused on modernizing the recycling industry, several alumni working for renewable energy firms, and a number working in the electric vehicle... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources
knows quite a bit about the topic. "Capitalism has traditionally been about driving wealth and productivity through efficiencies in capital and labor," says Henderson, who teaches the MBA elective Reimagining Capitalism. "But in the 21st... View Details
Keywords: Dalai Lama