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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
Solara provides an on-demand solar irrigation service to Indian farmers, increasing their access to affordable, reliable, and clean irrigation. Team: Rea Savla, MBA 2024; Vishesh Mehta Play Video duration: 1:32 2024 Peter M. Sacerdote... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
the effects of rapid climate change. Less typically, he's more bullish on nuclear power and hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," than he is on solar energy or wind power for addressing the worldwide carbon emissions problem. It's not that... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
SolarCity, a leading solar energy firm, creating what Musk called “a vertically integrated energy company.” These moves, representing billions of investment and extension into new industries, came at a time when Tesla was still losing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
ever been? Brian: Ehen people see the case, they'll see that “world-class” is in quotations. Why did you decide to do that? Bill: Because no one knows what it is. Everyone wants to be “world-class” (no one has yet gone for the entire View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
the Challenges of Distributed Generation American Electric Power, like most utilities in the U.S. is currently exposed to distributed generation and the problem of net-metering. Solar installations in particular have been heavily... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
measurement of what is green needs to be much broader and the finance flow into these sort of projects and proposals should go beyond just looking at the traditional sort of solar energy, wind energy, type of equations. So, a lot to be... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
officials used its science capabilities to develop components for solar panels and are now working on materials for cars that make them safer and more efficient. "Dow is using its science background to address fundamental issues and... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
that were more responsible and sustainable as well as how these strategies have faced constraints, trade-offs, and challenges of legitimacy. The industries covered range from sustainable finance and solar energy to organic food and wine,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
even need to reduce incoming solar radiation in order to lower unacceptably high temperatures. Such unproven and potentially risky climate interventions raise mind-blowing questions of governance and ethics. Pandora’s Toolbox offers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Brando,” says Bailey, “we will raise the bar to 100 percent renewable-energy autonomy, with SWAC, solar and wind power, and copra oil as a biofuel.” Other plans include capturing cooling and condensation from SWAC to grow crops such as... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
SolarCity In 2016, electric car manufacturer Tesla announced that it was making an offer to acquire solar panel manufacturer SolarCity in an all-stock offer worth $2.6 billion in Tesla stock. Tesla’s co-founder and CEO, Elon Musk,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
http://www.msi.org/publications/publication.cfm?pub=1983 Cases & Course MaterialsJourney to the East: Natcore Technology in China Regina Abrami, Matthew Shaffer, and Weiqi ZhangHarvard Business School Case 912-414 Why is a U.S. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
firms explore new areas of opportunity, such as nanotechnology, fuel cells, solar power, clean technology, and even entertainment. “Each partner is stretched to look at more areas and to constantly examine new opportunities,” notes... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
African municipalities can’t afford to waste money this way. Solar panels on the Garden City Mall, Nairobi, Kenya financed by CrossBoundary Energy. Credit: John Macomber Highly aspirational cities like Kigali, Rwanda, follow an explicit... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
footprint,” Telkes must now confront the bigger decision of whether or not to invest in solar panels to generate electricity for her home. Although pre-disposed to pursue environmentally friendly alternatives, the project entailed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
products like the Kindle e-reader, high-end servers, solar panels, and the batteries that will power the next generation of automobiles. To rebuild the commons and restore its wealth-generating machine will require government and industry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024
increases GHG emissions). Harvard University calculates its GHG emissions factor, but there is a delay in getting current grid data to feed into that calculation. Energy includes steam and electricity from Harvard’s Blackstone Steam Plant, electricity from the grid,... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
communicate on commitments such as investments in biofuels or renewable solar energy. And this is not only targeted to ethical funds; it also allows a retail shareholder, for example, to go to a dinner saying he is proud to be an investor... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
Lo, is carbon neutral—vertical farms set up next to, say, a giant solar field or a wind farm. “We look at the industry, and it’s pretty clear you can’t put a sustainable label on yourself unless you solve the energy piece of it—and we... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Case 510-037 Nanosolar is a start-up company in the clean tech sector. It expects to be one of the first manufacturers to produce thin-film solar panels using copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) technology. Although this technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace