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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Projects by Country Argentina Argentina Soy Cluster (2016) Armenia Armenia IT Services Cluster (2006) Australia Australia Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Cluster (2016) South Australia Wine Cluster (2010) Australia Renewable Energy (2008)... View Details
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HBS - Key Metrics
ventilation to help reduce disease transmission (which 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. View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
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Electricity - Business & Environment
700-mile transmission line to connect 4 gigawatts of wind power to market. Today, I am opening new markets for solar power.” Diana Rivera & Michael Skelly HBS MBA 2010 Director of Development, Merit SI Pictured here with Michael Skelly,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
estimated $80 billion a year in total economic losses, according to the case. The smart grid was touted as the best solution to the problem, allowing for on-demand energy use resulting in greater energy... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
we worked for over a decade on a renewable energy transmission project that will deliver 1,250 MW of clean energy to New York by 2025, enough to power over 1 million homes and... View Details
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
across a variety of countries and sectors. The results of this exploration show that managers are trying to ensure safety and maintain profitability with tremendous energy and creativity. While specific tactics vary by company, they share... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Air Time
who could figure out the transmission problem.” “Transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities is a big obstacle. I figured the world didn’t need another Midwest wind... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
another Midwest wind developer as much as it needed someone who could figure out the transmission problem.” The scope of the challenge becomes clear in Skelly’s description of Clean Line’s $2.5 billion Plains & Eastern Project, which will... View Details
Philip Sporn
transmission, distribution, and utilization. In 1954, Sporn received the Charles A. Coffin Medal for pioneering advancement in engineering. He was cited for two advances made by his company: operation of the country’s first 330K volt View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
won’t be available overnight, though. Nussey points out that energy from a brand-new solar farm might have nowhere to go because, in some parts of the United States—home to one-third of the world’s data centers—energy-grid View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
leadership has become a personal and professional mission for Nick, who was coaxed out of retirement last year to take a new post as president and CEO of Dairyland Power Cooperative, a multisource energy provider made up of 25 local... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
she says, noting that Brazil offers incentives in the form of discounted transmission rates for biomass-generated electricity. (Brazil is almost entirely independent of fossil fuels, relying primarily on hydroelectric View Details
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Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024
occupancy impacting the % reduction, it was also impacted by the increased ventilation to help reduce risk of disease transmission (which increases energy use). Water represents the total water withdrawal... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
more similar with time. So, while industries within a country might move separately, all that variability comes out in the wash when you average across a broad array of industries on a countrywide scale. “You don’t see the stock price of an View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
that many West German spies have been compromised and cannot determine which intelligence reports to believe. Can he find a way to intercept Russian intelligence transmissions from East Berlin to Moscow? No Bullsh!t Leadership By Martin... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
product, a small device that Staats had invented and patented, could remotely monitor high-voltage power transmission and generation. This breakthrough enabled electricity traders to get the real-time supply and distribution information... View Details
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
business leaders are using to transform communications with their employees and customers, as it shifts from one-way transmission of information to two-way interaction. That's one reason Time magazine just named Facebook founder Mark... View Details
Keywords: by Staff