Energy Entrepreneurship - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Apr 2014
Blog Post

HBS in San Francisco: Get a Recap on West Coast Recruiting

start-ups, including Pinterest, Cointent, Dropbox and Boomtrain, the mixer was full of energy and engaging discussions. Tuesday began with a Venture Capital breakfast hosted by Kristen Fitzpatrick, Managing Director of the HBS CPD office,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship

20 Oct 2016
News

Uncharted Territory

(Uncharted Play) (Uncharted Play) Jessica Matthews’s (MBA 2014) startup Uncharted Play made headlines when it debuted Soccket, a soccer ball that captures kinetic energy to power a lamp. The simple idea could change life in poor, rural... View Details

March 2018 (Revised April 2018)
Supplement

1366 Technologies: Scaling the Venture (B)

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Ramana Nanda

It was March 2018. Should proposed U.S. solar tariffs keep U.S.-based 1366 CEO Frank van Mierlo from starting up his 1st full-scale manufacturing plant overseas? View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Finance; Intellectual Property; Trade; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; United States; China; Korean Peninsula

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01 Jun 2011
News

Perception versus Reality

entrepreneurship just doesn’t square with reality. Our special focus coverage of entrepreneurship in this issue will help set the record straight — starting with the cover photo. The pictured trio aren’t the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; contests; awards; meta

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

04 Nov 2021
Blog Post

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM

energies toward. This year you’ll be co-president of the Food, Agriculture, and Water Club. What motivated you to pursue this role? What goals do you have as co-president? I think to the broader HBS population, careers today in food and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship

November 2003 (Revised May 2016)
Case

Weetman Pearson and the Mexican Oil Industry (A)

By: Geoffrey Jones and Lisa Bud-Freirman

Taught in the MBA Evolution of Global Business course, a business history course on the growth of multinationals. Explores the role of the British entrepreneur Weetman Pearson in developing the Mexican oil industry before 1914. Shows this entrepreneur's evolution from... View Details

Keywords: History; Risk and Uncertainty; Non-Renewable Energy; Growth Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Energy Industry; Mexico

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10 Aug 2017
News

Into the Light

is in energy efficiency. She was an early employee of OPower, a software company that provides utilities, and their customers, better information about energy usage. After the company’s IPO, in 2014,... View Details

Keywords: April White; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

Profile

Drew Richard

What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? Entrepreneurship is something I’ve thought about before coming here, and HBS has given me a number ways to look into it, like the Entrepreneurial Management class and FIELD... View Details

October 2018 (Revised August 2023)
Case

Safecast: Bootstrapping Human Capital to Big Data

By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephanie Marton

On March 11, 2011, at 2:46pm, a 9.1-on-the-Richter-scale, six-minute long earthquake unleashed a tsunami that ravaged the Tohoku region of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power facility and releasing sufficient radioactive material into the air and ocean... View Details

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11 Feb 2019
Blog Post

John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”

consumer apps to research in things like healthcare and energy management. The philosophical implications are enormous: machine learning is going to change everything.” In addition to his core assignments, Bracaglia took advantage of... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship

July 2012
Teaching Plan

Verengo Solar Plus! (TP)

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III

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28 Mar 2018
News

Fueling the Future

recruiter and marketing director to head of innovation. Today, she runs Fueled for Growth, an innovation consulting company, which assists financial firms with due diligence in the energy and industrials sector and helps companies solve... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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Overview

What makes some organizations more innovative than others? Innovation follows from strategy and structure. A good strategy allows individuals to impose their own imagination towards organizational goals in a coordinated way. Good structure adds incentives that... View Details

Keywords: Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Resource Allocation; Strategy; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Canada; United States; Europe; Croatia; Serbia and Montenegro

Profile

Minal Mehta

"Teaching BollyX classes and running BollyX actually makes me better at both jobs. As a cocreator of the BollyX workout, I absolutely love teaching BollyX classes. Feeling the energy and vibe of the class participants keeps me... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship

December 2016 (Revised August 2017)
Case

Tesla in 2015

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Arnold B. Peinado

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01 Sep 2013
News

The New Tech Meccas

When author and start-up vet Chris Schroeder (MBA 1992) attended a regional entrepreneurship conference in Dubai in 2010, the energy of the crowd was a revelation. "I could not get my head around the idea... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

Entrepreneurship Fellowship, and Student Business Plan Contest have been announced. Representing the HBS Association of Northern California and the HBS Tech Alumni Club, BioMine, led by co-founder and CEO Privahini Bradoo (MBA '08), took... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services