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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 switching our electric supply for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
Comparing green tech with the Internet, green tech ventures require more capital, a longer time to develop, and policy is paramount. The worldwide energy market is $6 trillion,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeff Baron
Named by his MBA section “Most likely to end up in People magazine,” Jeffrey A. Baron did so with a twist. He made People not in the United States but in Brazil, where his second play, Mother’s Day, received widespread acclaim. Baron’s road from working-class New... View Details
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Faculty Mentors | Research Associates
T. Stanton Marvin Bower Associate Professor Finance Unit Paul A. Gompers Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration Daniel W. Green Assistant Professor of Business Administration Max J. Miller Assistant Professor of Business... View Details
- Portrait Project
Alyza Keshavjee
An explosion is followed by foreign army tanks, men pushing, women yelling, and children screaming. I turn the other way and she runs to me, arms widespread, green eyes illuminated, light brown hair flowing, smiling ear to ear.... View Details
- Fast Answer
Global Climate Change
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Values Proposition
by publicly traded health care IT company Allscripts. Rumi Spice Cofounder and CEO Kimberly Jung (MBA 2015); Founded 2014 With the goal of spurring development in rural Afghanistan, Rumi works with 80-plus farmers and hundreds of saffron processors to produce and View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
in India: while some decarbonization technologies exist for steel production, most are prohibitively expensive relative to the current market prices for steel, and green steel has small demand, especially in... View Details
- Profile
Jennifer DeWhitt
marketing and finance. While pursuing her degree, Jennifer taught at an alternative school near campus that served at-risk youth. After graduation, she joined Bain & Co., where she “worked on the Dallas expansion plans for KIPP... View Details
- November 1994
- Case
VideoGuide, Inc. (A)
By: William A. Sahlman and Jason Green
VideoGuide is emerging from a development stage start-up and requires a significant capital infusion to commercialize its product. Various financing options are considered including going public, venture capital, private placement, or a strategic partner. Given the... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Capital; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Initial Public Offering; Markets; Partners and Partnerships; Growth and Development Strategy; Going Public
Sahlman, William A., and Jason Green. "VideoGuide, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 295-051, November 1994.
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea to friends and relatives in a... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Earnings Call By: Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim Abstract—One of the challenges companies claim to face in making sustainability a core part of their strategy and operations is that the market does not care about sustainability,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
Marquis, Christopher, Hongyu Zhang, and Lixuan Zhou. "China's Quest to Adopt Electric Vehicles." Stanford Social Innovation Review 11, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 52–57.
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
fast charger ports increased 248%.” In an interview with Climate Stories, Erika said she was delighted to have seen seven ads during this year’s Super Bowl LVI featuring a vehicle with a plug. “Super Bowl ads are usually dominated by gas guzzlers. It’s exciting to see... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
problems. Supply chains will be disrupted. There will be new conflicts over water, resources, and human migration. The very physical integrity of factories and buildings will be threatened. So what can businesses do? For most firms, environmental sustainability usually... View Details
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
with the opportunity to apply for an additional three-year extension. During this period, workers can request green cards and secure permanent residency status if they desire. The current annual cap for the "regular" H1-B category is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
that there might just be too many activities available and too much to do, thus decreasing the serendipity of chance social encounters among residents as they crisscross the community’s lush green grounds. Even so, Marshall, a View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Kato is tasked with evaluating how the company can most successfully market and sell the green components of its service offering. Using only renewable energy in its data center facility, Verne can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
two-sided platforms and indirect network effects to develop an explanation why markets with two-sided platforms are often characterized by incompatibility with one dominant player who may subsidize access to one side of the market. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- May 2020 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
Playing the Field: Competing Bids for Anadarko Petroleum Corp
On April 8, 2019, Occidental’s CEO Vicki Hollub made a private offer to buy Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for $72 in cash and stock. Anadarko's CEO Al Walker said he would consider the offer, yet three days later, on April 11, he signed a merger agreement with Chevron... View Details
Mayfield, E. Scott, Daniel Green, and Benjamin C. Esty. "Playing the Field: Competing Bids for Anadarko Petroleum Corp." Harvard Business School Case 220-087, May 2020. (Revised August 2021.)