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  • February 2024 (Revised March 2024)
  • Teaching Note

X: The Foghorn Decision

By: Kyle Myers and Walter Frick
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 618-060. View Details
Keywords: Alternative Energy; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Climate Change; Green Technology; Selection and Staffing; Knowledge; Product Design; Product Development; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Science-Based Business; Innovation and Invention; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry
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  • 09 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind

built near this location to convert wind energy into green hydrogen. Photo source: Prof. Willy Shih Next on our tour, we climbed inside the nacelle of a wind turbine. The nacelle sits at the top of a turbine... View Details
  • February 2024
  • Teaching Note

Divesting Harvard's Endowment

By: Daniel Green and Luis M. Viceira
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 221-009. View Details
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  • Web

Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment

MBA 1983 Mayor, City of Newton “I believe urgently transitioning to clean, green energy is essential to addressing the climate crisis. In the City of Newton, we made an important step to this goal by... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower

pandemic, a lot of New York electricians and construction workers retired. BlocPower’s green workforce development efforts are helping to find new talent and fill the unions’ gaps in the workforce. “We are building out a clean View Details
  • 19 Mar 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy
  • December 2024
  • Supplement

Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change (B)

By: George Serafeim, Debora L. Spar, Peter Tufano, Hugo Etchegoyhen and Emilie Billaud
The (B) case explores Northvolt’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on November 21, 2024, highlighting the company’s struggles to scale operations amid a global EV market slowdown and internal production challenges. While the (A) case detailed Northvolt’s ambitious... View Details
Keywords: Batteries; Electric Vehicles; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Energy; Green Technology; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Technological Innovation; Risk Management; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transportation; Green Technology Industry; Europe; Sweden
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  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

New Wave

electricity—enough to power approximately 150 households. The turbines are the spinning heart of the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project, an initiative undertaken by Verdant Power, the startup that Smith cofounded in 2000 to... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns

Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides... View Details
Keywords: Paul Massari; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • August 2023 (Revised October 2024)
  • Supplement

Plug Power (B)

By: Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli and James Barnett
The case is set in spring 2021, immediately after Plug Power made financial restatements dating back to 2018. The case describes the restatements, which revealed that Plug was reclassifying expense items to boost gross profits. View Details
Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Financial Reporting; Ethics; Profit; Management; Social Enterprise; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; United States; Europe
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  • 22 Jul 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power

clean energy infrastructure industry. She is certain that training and re-training oil and gas industry workers for the new green economy can help drive voter support for climate change initiatives in Canada... View Details
  • 2007
  • Case

Sun Power: Focused on the Future of the Solar Power Industry

By: Rebecca Henderson, J. Conkling and R. Nanda
Keywords: Projects; Strategic Planning; Green Technology Industry
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  • 19 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing
  • September 2010 (Revised November 2010)
  • Case

Ze-gen: Commercializing Clean Tech

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Kaitlyn Lyons and Scott Prozeller
The Ze-gen case covers the first five years in the life of a clean-tech start-up. Ze-gen had developed an innovative technology that converted solid waste into synthesis gas (called syngas). This technology was in testing at the company's pilot plant, built next to the... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Environmental Sustainability; Commercialization; Green Technology Industry; New Bedford
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  • 19 Jun 2018
  • Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

Celsius?" A number of practitioners reported that progress could and was being made in their sectors, despite the challenges. Many are focusing energy on addressing short-term biases in capital markets and in the ability of investors... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy
  • 27 Feb 2024
  • Cold Call Podcast

How Could Harvard Decarbonize Its Supply Chain?

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Shirley Lu; Green Technology
  • November 2022 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change

By: George Serafeim, Debora L. Spar, P. Tufano and Julia M. Comeau
In 2016, Swedish entrepreneurs Carl-Erik Lagercrantz and Peter Carlsson founded an electric battery company called Northvolt with the dual goals of creating a company to address climate change and bringing battery manufacture to Europe. Northvolt, which succeeded in... View Details
Keywords: Batteries; Climate Change; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Green Technology; Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Sweden; Europe
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  • February 2011
  • Supplement

The Fox Islands Wind Project (B)

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Evan Richardson
Fox Island Wind Cooperative faces criticism from local residents. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Cooperative Ownership; Business and Community Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Maine
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  • Web

Nicolas Weninger | MBA

challenges I foresee for societies worldwide is the question of green energy generation and distribution. The other is human spaceflight and our continued exploration of the unknown. Formative experience at... View Details
  • 04 Aug 2023
  • Blog Post

Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change

their inspiring stories. Chidalu Onyenso: Empowering small business owners’ self-sufficiency Climate change and the energy crisis have disproportionately impacted underdeveloped countries and the most vulnerable populations with them.... View Details