Energy Entrepreneurship - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
News

Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets

Monique Maddy (MBA 1993) is focusing her entrepreneurial energies on connecting the world's poor to global commerce through their cell phones. In 2007 she launched Ezuza, a Mexico City–based mobile money company that focuses on the... View Details

November 2024
Case

Ather Energy: The Future of Mobility

By: Shunyuan Zhang, Kannan Srinivasan and Malini Sen

Ather Energy, India’s third-largest electric scooter maker by volume, was founded in 2013. Five years later, the start-up launched its first electric scooter, Ather 450, which was powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), to navigate... View Details

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02 Mar 2023
News

Carbon's Second Act

Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA... 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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Offices of Other Holding Companies; Management

15 Sep 2015
Blog Post

On the Road: HBS in Israel

Tel Aviv. 30 women attended and learned a lot from our alumnae and incoming students. There was great energy in the room for this special event. What questions were asked during the event? There was lots of interest in the great work we... View Details

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Courses by Title - Course Catalog

Alcacer , Raffaella Sadun Fall 2025 Q2 1.5 ^ back to top E Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits Energy General Management Dustin Tingley Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Entrepreneurial Finance Entrepreneurial Management, Finance Sabrina Howell Fall... View Details

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Family Business Strategy Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 OWN: The Power of Company Ownership Strategy Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 John Batter Law, Management and Entrepreneurship General Management, Entrepreneurial Management Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Law, Management... View Details

11 Jan 2019
News

Case Study: Beating Bias

base audience for the newsletter before changing course? What Would You Do? Patel has a hunch about which way to go, but first he’d like to hear your thoughts. Should he pivot at this early stage? Or should he stay the course and focus View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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Virtual Campus Tour | MBA

bring the case method alive—there are passionate debates, lots of laughs, and an energy that is unparalleled. Each section of approximately 90 students will spend their entire first year together in a single classroom. Hawes Hall... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side

Entrepreneurship group here at HBS, in pursuing a whole host of generous philanthropic activities from NPR to the environment to just plain helping those in need, Howard has been a nonstop ball of energy and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

26 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

precipitates joblessness, which leads to more addiction and disorder—the quintessential vicious cycle. The Kabul of the pre-1970s Soviet onslaught was the Paris of Central Asia, successful in agriculture, tourism and hospitality. Post-war Kabul of the future could be... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

05 May 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

travel, Hong Kong heritage, and modern culinary fusion. Through the creation of XO, I learned of the incredible energy contained in our cultural histories; that heritage is not something to hide or wash away but to reconnect with and take... View Details

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

The New Venture Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative open to all students and alumni who are launching new business and social impact ventures. This year,... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

This Is What I Do

Bailey notes. “New energy technologies will always penetrate the private sector at the point of greatest weakness: where energy is most expensive.” Â Bailey’s green centerpiece to date is the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

01 Sep 2011
News

Innovations Under Way Will Shape HBS’s Future

ambition, internationalization, inclusion, and integration with Harvard — have set in motion a pace of change that is unprecedented yet needed to respond to the changing world around us. There is enthusiasm and energy that can be felt... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Skeete Tatum; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

23 Mar 2021
Blog Post

A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS

chair of my section at HBS. I grew up with two working parents. My dad is a civil servant and my mom is an entrepreneur and small business owner. One of her businesses is a vegetable oil production business that is still operating 20 years later. Seeing the hustling... View Details

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

place “outside the building.” The other major book theme that the crisis has laid bare is more positive: the incredible outpouring of creative energy on the part of people who arose like a new army of democracy to fight the virus, fill... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

October 2007 (Revised April 2009)
Case

TH!NK: The Norwegian Electric Car Company

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and David Kiron

On August 1, 2007, 61-year-old Jan-Olaf Willums' plane was flying along the Greenland coastline on his way back to Norway after intense discussions with several prominent U.S. venture capital investors, among them Kleiner Perkins and Rockport Capital Partners, about... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Innovation and Invention; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Auto Industry; Green Technology Industry; Europe; Norway