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- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
computer to predict important properties of molecules. DM: Like how much energy it takes to bind the molecule to CO2. Or how much it costs to produce the molecule. AS: And the other part is using machine learning to connect the dots... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
diversified the company’s interests by adding investments in energy and infrastructure to supplement Sintesa’s holdings in consumer and industrial products as well as property and development. Ten years on, Kamdani notes that implementing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Rust Belt Turns ‘Sun Belt’ with Solar
true for the “green economy” movement: aged or unused factories in the Midwest being refurbished and turned into solar energy manufacturing plants. But Tom Tiller (MBA ’91) is really making it happen, the Indianapolis Star reported... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables
energy, and already 70 to 80 percent of its power comes from hydroelectric dams. But the volatility also means moments of scarcity, when renewable energy can’t be relied upon to keep the lights on. These fluctuations in the weather... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
offsets such as investing in reforestation projects to counteract the carbon that’s released from the energy that heats, cools, and electrifies their buildings. But what everyone needs to remember is that’s hardly sufficient. And I worry... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
Wolfensohn Center for Development, a new global poverty research initiative at the Brookings Institution. He is also relishing the opportunity to work with his son, Adam, and daughter Naomi at Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a privately held firm that invests in alternative... 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
- 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 that this was coming from places... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
Image by Digital Art/Corbis Related Links Listen to a podcast of Professors Rawi Abdelal, Forest Reinhardt, and Richard Vietor discussing the future of energy The catch-all “green” category covers a range of industries, from wind and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Climate Change Optimist
Verizon’s move to shift its energy use to 50 percent renewables by 2025, and supply chain programs to increase carbon sequestration through soil health initiatives with companies like Danone and Cargill: “Through photosynthesis, we can... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
had installed on the White House roof. Imagine if alternative energy had instead been an ongoing national priority for the last thirty years. Wouldn’t the American economy, the country itself, and indeed the rest of the world be much... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group (New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg MBA '66 was named the group's current chair in September). Discussions on transportation and the built environment, water, entrepreneurship in the energy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness
accessible energy supplies and a more level playing field in the international trading system also garnered strong support across the political spectrum. Liberal business leaders tended to support greater infrastructure investment,... View Details
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
Alan Horn (MBA 1971), chair, Walt Disney Studios; Roland Hwang, managing director, Climate and Clean Energy Program, NRDC. Alan Horn (MBA 1971), Chairman of Walt Disney Studios and Chair of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC)... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
Maxwell House Coffee and Post Cereals president Ann M. Fudge (MBA '77), to a dinner organized by Beatrice ("Bunny") Ellerin (MBA '95), the day's events generated an energy that allowed speakers and participants alike to dispense with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
Rangan. "Their ideas, financial support, and energy provide much of the wind at our backs as we enter our third decade." For more information on the Social Enterprise Initiative and its 20 years of impact, visit... View Details
Keywords: SEI
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
market and nonmarket strategy, particularly in the energy industry and in the food and agribusiness sector. He is interested in the relations between government regulation and corporate strategy, the behavior of private and public... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
to catch up to the technology of today.” She cited the Seaport District as an example, where small condominiums sell for more than $1 million, but builders are not required to make their projects energy efficient, nor are incentives... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- News
Remembering William Wilder
Gundy, becoming executive vice president/EVP in 1961 at the age of 38, and six years later president and chief executive. Under his leadership, the firm played a dominant role in financing Canada’s big energy companies and their projects.... View Details