Groom Energy Solutions - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact

the spectrum, which was part of what drove me to enroll in the MBA program. What influenced your decision to go into clean tech? I’m definitely passionate about the environment and interested in finding ways to contribute to solutions to... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Ready for Launch

A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

interests were extremely broad, especially when I considered different functions” she recalled. Adam’s analytical aptitude coupled with his appetite for understanding climate change solutions resonated with Breakthrough View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

opposed to large ones. Stobaugh also gained considerable renown as director of the HBS Energy Project and coeditor of the 1979 best-selling book Energy Future. This groundbreaking work advocated View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

16 Jul 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

are aware of the new opportunities, and then you've got to motivate and enable them to find an insurance solution that makes sense for them." After all, no one wakes up in the morning excited to buy insurance. "It's a grudge... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

emerge over and over: teams become increasingly concerned with the risks of failure rather than the requirements of excellence. As a result, they revert to safe, standard approaches instead of delivering original solutions tailored to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2023
News

Clearing the Air

investor interest is rising in both the public and the private sector: In December, the US Department of Energy announced $3.7 billion worth of programs and prizes meant to further kick-start the industry; In April, payments giant Stripe... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

09 Nov 2017
News

Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress

And thanks to the people he got to know while serving, he believes veterans hold a key part of the solution to the current hyperpolarization and lack of civility in American politics. Barcott has established a federally registered,... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Dec 2022
News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and advance faculty research that... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

14 Feb 2019
News

Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

to catch up to the technology of today.” She cited the Seaport District as an example, where small condominiums sell for more than $1 million, but builders are not required to make their projects energy efficient, nor are incentives... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

This Is What I Do

clinical trials, and unabashedly forces cooperation, collaboration, and openness in and among fields that are sometimes traditionally slow to do that. “We work to see the big picture and then invest our capital in ways that will best speed scientific View Details

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

Profile

Luc Sirois

lifelong idealism and drive to improve world. Sirois recalls his time at HBS as providing the spark necessary to direct his energies in the early days of the emerging digital superhighway. “Technology was enabling a new world. It didn’t... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology; Nonprofit / Government

02 Feb 2023
News

Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

computer to predict important properties of molecules. DM: Like how much energy it takes to bind the molecule to CO2. Or how much it costs to produce the molecule. AS: And the other part is using machine learning to connect the dots... View Details

07 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 7

difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of intermediate progress and solutions or of completed innovations. We present experimental evidence that links intermediate versus final disclosure not just with quantitative... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2011
News

Water for Life

Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Zobel de Ayala Photographs by Tom Epperson Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Green Day Related Links Watch Ayala discuss sustainability Sixteen years... View Details

Keywords: Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

01 Jan 2005
News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

professionals to implement them, companies were eager to embrace an end-to-end service delivery partner providing open, nonproprietary solutions that simultaneously cut costs and increased efficiency. "We found that customers were more... View Details

20 Apr 2016
News

Steps to Success

The cashew trees growing into a beautiful shady forest in Fass Koffe, a two-acre community garden in Senegal, are a sight to behold. “Visitors can’t take a step without stepping on a plant,” says Louise Fenn Ruhr (MBA 1977), chief operating officer for the Center for... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Sep 2006
News

Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

resilience in the face of difficult challenges. “However,” he added, “I think we should all be deeply troubled about the way our political system is functioning.” Rubin also urged the HBS audience, well known for its pro bono and volunteer efforts, to help correct the... View Details

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s decision to enter the retirement market with their new "Dimensional Managed DC" product, a complete retirement solution that aimed to provide investors with what they really wanted: the same... View Details