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- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Transformation is being driven by three independent trends: the emergence of affordable electric vehicles, the development of autonomous vehicles, and the growth of modernized ride sharing. When integrated, these trends create a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
(steel consumes vast amounts of electricity to run its core processes) and circular material usage (ways to abate some of the carbon emissions in steel production, but not all); carbon capture and storage (CCS), which doesn’t abate carbon... View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
Vacuum is commercializing technology developed at Harvard that mimics the ocean's natural process of absorbing C02 using renewable electricity. Click Here to Watch Alumni Track Winner: FleetZeroSteven Henderson, MBA 2016Fleetzero is building a fleet of View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
flexibility in this timeframe and might start demanding flexible work as a long-term solution. Doesn’t making employees work remotely save on utility expenditures? Choudhury: If companies allow workers to live anywhere, they might save... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
across the U.S. - the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions. But a big challenge has been finding financial models to pay the upfront costs of retrofitting and/or decarbonizing the electricity grid. BlocPower has begun... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
their hybrid-fiber-coaxial (HFC) network lose out to the All Fiber Network (AFN) developed by the electric power companies in concert with RCN-inspired entrepreneurs. No, wait. It's 2010, and the channels are controlled not by any one... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
In one recent case, Procter & Gamble purchased a company producing a low-cost, mass-produced disposable electric rotary toothbrush to be marketed under its famous Crest brand umbrella. As it turns out, its founders developed the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
"...But the good news is your old Enron stock has become a high-priced collectible." © 2008 www.cartoonstock.com Nearly seven years after its collapse, Enron continues to fascinate those interested in corporate leadership and governance. The latest chapter of the Enron... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- News
Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
building efficiency products such as heat pumps and insulation. As the specifics of how that can be applied and utilized are formalized, it should create some tremendous opportunities for incumbent players to de-risk scaling up new... View Details
- 20 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management
frameworks. These challenges underscore the necessity of private intervention. Local utilities will require innovative financing mechanisms and technical assistance. Our site visits offer valuable insights into Mumbai’s ongoing water... View Details
- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
pump water being treated in the Kalundborg Utility plant we visited. Moreover, Grundfos pumps are used to power those same sites – such as in wind turbines’ nacelles that convert wind to electricity, and in district energy systems that... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
work they are already doing. For, example I am helping a major U.S. utility look at the implications of possible carbon regulation and the way they structure their business. I'm working with a large consumer goods company to look at the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
and Enel, the largest electric utilities in Germany and Italy, respectively. In March 2007, Acciona's executive chairman Jose Manuel Entrecanales is considering three strategic alternatives: tendering its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
Europe and Latin America has shown that governments are particularly concerned with maintaining control over the affairs of privatized monopolies. "For example, in the cases of electric utility... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023
issues of science and policy acted as a reminder of the scale and ever-changing policy landscape as students dove more deeply into specific solutions with such topics as food and agriculture, carbon capture, finance, the electricity grid,... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
energy.’ We were trying to be a bridge between saving the planet with new technologies” while talking to utilities and the “incumbent energy industry” about buying clean sources of power. Today, Nisha has evolved her focus and is... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
assumptions. The first is that people are more altruistic towards individuals that agree with them and the second is that people's well-being rises when other people share their personal opinions. The act of voting is then a source of vicarious View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace