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March 2024
Case

Transforming a Region: Gothenburg’s path from Shipyards to E-Mobility

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Orjan Solvell

The case profiles the economic development of the Gothenburg region in Western Sweden, and the efforts of the regional economic development agency. During this period the region’s traditionally strong automotive cluster started to transform towards e-mobility... View Details

Keywords: Regional Economic Activity; Cluster; Economic Development; Economic Growth; Government and Politics; Transformation; Green Technology; Auto Industry; Sweden

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Spring 2013
Article

China's Quest to Adopt Electric Vehicles

By: Christopher Marquis, Hongyu Zhang and Lixuan Zhou

The Chinese government's effort to create an electric vehicle industry is a bold experiment in local and system-level innovation. It also provides a window into understanding the promise and peril of economic development policies, both for China and for the rest of the... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Development Economics; Emerging Markets; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; China

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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

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18 Feb 2020
Cold Call Podcast

Global Ocean Trust: Protecting the Blue Planet in New Ways

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter; Green Technology

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

1997
Article

Are Computers Gender-neutral? Gender Stereotypic Responses to Computers with Voices

By: C. I. Nass, Y. Moon and N. Green

Keywords: Information Technology; Gender

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03 Aug 2020
News

A Clean Start

help solve this environmental conundrum. A chemical engineer, Brix had spent his career at Chevron in research and technology and then at Microsoft in IoT and automation. Then, in 2017, he turned his attention toward creating a renewable... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

30 May 2013
Blog Post

Product Launch Day

at a central location on campus where we thought a lot of students would pass by. We even set up a green screen on the wall behind us with a bunch of bright green posterboard so students could take pictures... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology

January 2012 (Revised June 2015)
Case

China Greentech Initiative (CGTI)

By: Christopher Marquis, Juelin Yin and Laura Velez Villa

Keywords: Green Technology Industry; China

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October 2005
Supplement

The Nature Conservancy (DVD)

By: Allen S. Grossman and Jane Wei-Skillern

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry

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September 1978 (Revised January 1979)
Case

SCM Organic Chemicals Division of SCM Corp.

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Green Technology Industry

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September 1999
Background Note

Revolution in the Communications Switching Industry

By: Jay O. Light, Lynda M. Applegate and Daniel J. Green

As data packet switches threatened the voice circuit switch industry in 1999, major switch and router vendors began paying high premiums to acquire venture-backed switch companies. This note explains what a switch is and suggests why large vendors might be so anxious... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Restructuring; Capital; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Communications Industry; Electronics Industry

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01 Dec 2010
News

Making a Difference

closely with actor Marlon Brando before his death in 2004 to create a development plan for Brando’s 1,500-acre Tahitian atoll. When the forty-unit project is completed in 2012, the resort will be virtually carbon neutral and a showcase for View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; meta

09 Apr 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel

conglomerate and one of India’s largest steel producers. They are employing significant technology to build circularity into their production processes across both steel and cement production and are using their R&D capacity to... View Details

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

parties) have issued executive orders requiring federal agencies to use environmentally preferable products and services whenever possible, as has the European Commission. These procurement policies are specifically aimed to "spur private sector development of new... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

2014
Working Paper

Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870–1940

By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora

This working paper examines the role of entrepreneurs in the municipal solid waste industry in industrialized central and northern Europe from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. It explores the emergence of numerous German, Danish, and other European... View Details