Publications

27 Feb 2024
Cold Call Podcast

How Could Harvard Decarbonize Its Supply Chain?

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Shirley Lu; Green Technology

14 Oct 2014
News

When it comes to climate change, companies must prepare now

operations to take advantage of the opportunities, and skirt the dangers raised by the prospect of climate change,” Reinhardt says. Each company must evaluate its use of energy in its own context. In some cases, other firms or governments... View Details

Career Coach

Grace Keliher

Grace is passionate about climate and sustainability, social impact, and DEI. She understands how important it is to find inclusion and belonging in the workplace in addition to purpose and fulfillment. She has spent her career in the View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Making It Count

impact revolution will sweep through all industries from clean energy and telemedicine to fintech and edtech, he predicts. And with $7 trillion in venture capital and private equity available globally—far more than existed at the start of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Jun 2009
News

Bright Future for Green Business

“There’s no better horse in the world you could possibly hitch your cart to.” That’s how Matthew Nordan summed up the state of clean, green energy at the School’s Building Green Businesses conference in early March. During the session... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Utilities

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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog

zero, and the need and ways to build a sustainable future. Students will explore the balance of maintaining basic development goals, such as improving infrastructure, reducing poverty, energy access, housing, transport services, water,... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

The Sparkles in Our Skies

worries by emphasizing green energy use and decreased water consumption. Meanwhile, lab-grown diamonds, which first entered the commercial jewelry market in the late 1980s and are forecasted to be 10 percent of the market by 2030, have... View Details

Keywords: April White; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

May 2020
Case

Schlumberger's WesternGeco Division

By: John R. Wells, Sneha Biswas and Benjamin Weinstock

In October 2017, Maurice Nessim, President of WesternGeco, a business unit of Schlumberger, faced a difficult decision. In the face of falling oil prices and increasing pressure on costs, did it make sense to sell off the company’s specialized fleet of seismic survey... View Details

Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Decision Making; Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Energy Industry; Energy Industry

June 2013
Case

Hess Corporation

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante

On January 29, 2013, Elliott Management, a hedge fund run by Paul E. Singer, which owned 4.5% of Hess Corporation stock, put forward a slate of five independent directors it wanted elected to improve the company's performance. Elliott argued that Hess lacked focus and... View Details

Keywords: Takeover Attempt; Board; Hess; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Structure; Acquisition; Energy Industry; Energy Industry

March 1990 (Revised May 1993)
Case

Pennzoil Co.

Focuses on Pennzoil's motor oil business. Designed to address the business strategy issues of how a firm chooses its scope to create competitive advantage in its core business. "Scope" can be broadly defined to include vertical scope (forward and backward integration),... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Advantage; Energy Industry; Energy Industry

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Club Conferences | MBA

Conference October 19, 2025 Energy & Environment Club Food & Agriculture Club Sustainability Club Conservative Club October 25, 2025 Conservative Club Retail & Luxury Goods Club Conference October 26, 2025 Retail & Luxury Goods... View Details

16 Dec 2020
News

Our Favorite Stories of 2020

directors at EmDash and the photographers at HollenderX2 on this photo. This shot captures the energy of this particular duo and their business. And we still wonder how many takes it required. View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Alumni Books

results on the scale and higher energy levels. She dispels dieting myths, gives the lowdown on energy bars, green tea, and protein shakes, and offers unconventional tips (like how to break an exercise sweat... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Teaching is in his DNA

Energy Secretary Sam Bodman. “And one who is intensely loyal to his students.” Curiously, due to his administrative duties, McArthur didn’t spend the thousands of hours in the classroom that many of his colleagues did. Nevertheless, in... View Details

08 May 2019
News

Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities

coursework, Asamoah has served as a student consultant for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she analyzed how Grand Rapids, Michigan, could increase workforce diversity. As a summer intern at a solar View Details

January 2024
Case

BWX Technologies

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Yuan Zou and Aldo Sesia

Rex Geveden and Robb LeMasters, CEO and CFO of BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT), were concerned that investors and analysts did not fully appreciate the company's transformation from a nuclear reactor provider to the US Navy and Canadian utilities to a multi-product line... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Communication Intention and Meaning; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation; Diversification; United States; Canada