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- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
a ways off. But as he watched innovations like battery storage and solar drive sharp increases in demand, that clean-energy future didn’t seem so far away any longer. “We are moving off fossil fuels at a clip faster than anybody, even View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Lighting It Up
used to be a one-season event,” Wilkins noted. “Now most customers want to leave lighting up year-round because it signifies a special event.” Wilkins is excited by the prospect that more American cities may come to look like Hong Kong and thrilled to be involved in... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Capturing industrial carbon dioxide and pumping it back underground to help extract energy from old, unproductive oil fields seems like a plan that might be good in theory but is probably too complicated to pull off in the real world.... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
chairman and president; sectionmate Paul Schwarzbaum (MBA 1988) agreed to serve as a director. “We aim to protect industrialized societies against the long-term collapse of infrastructure through technical and regulatory solutions,” says... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
reflects the same flawed assumptions shared by many otherwise astute individuals having no experience or expertise in the power industry. I am an energy industry professional of 28 years, one who has no quarrel with nuclear in principle.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Erica Diamond demo the "modlet" View a list of alumni working in green industry What does it mean to be green? It’s a trendy color these days, but over the years HBS alumni have demonstrated a long-standing commitment to environmental... View Details
- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
Josue Zapata (MD/MBA 2012) is chief resident in internal medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. In this interview he discusses how he is utilizing his business training to make a difference in patient treatment and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Chirchirillo, “It’s a game-changer. Now we can go from print-to-part faster than anyone in the world.” The coin of the realm: The intricate patterns of metal stampings form the innards of component parts for a variety of manufactured products in a range of View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
becomes even smaller. Just as we pointed out earlier in the context of how much time modern people spend indoors, once again the building industry discussion has missed the key 90 percent—the impact of the big expense, the people.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
In Charge
and descendant of a Creole voodoo princess, landed on her feet. A former utility executive and state official in Illinois, she became the new CEO of Johnson Publishing, which produces Ebony and Jet magazines. About her stint in the White... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
What did Time Warner have that AOL wanted? According to many industry observers, the driving force behind the proposed megamerger was AOL's strategic need to acquire access to the media giant's broadband hardware. HBS professor Stephen P.... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
invests up front to develop and build the desalination facility, signing up local utilities to long-term contracts at firm prices. “It’s one of the first examples of a private company in the US water View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
cities that are holistically improving their energy use to reduce their emissions and save money. Often these solutions involve submetering individualized utility measuring of city buildings, which allows for a closer monitoring of energy... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Shell and American Can Company. "All the guys who were making the decisions in the corner offices had advanced degrees," he recalls. "I wanted to call the shots." At HBS, Harris learned about leadership and motivating teams, citing courses such as View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
products outside the United States, which amounted to 50 percent of its entire business. Again Lang made good - under her leadership Lotus's international products outpaced those of all competitors, including industry giant Microsoft, on... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
POZEN: Offers a plan for overhauling the U.S. financial system to avoid a repeat of the recent market meltdown. Most books about the nation’s financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
Dr. Peter L. Slavin (MBA '90) nods toward a long line stretching back from a gourmet coffee counter. "That's one of our most utilized facilities," he says with a smile. "The joke around here is that the hospital operation is a loss leader... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Green Talk at HBS
Nyquist reported that such emissions could be cut by a third through greater efficiencies. He also noted, however, that meeting the lowered emission goals set for 2050 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will require a larger increase in productivity than... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Rust Belt Turns ‘Sun Belt’ with Solar
facility in Indiana, where photovoltaic solar modules will be manufactured. Said Tiller, “Henry Ford transformed the auto industry with his assembly line. As we build to scale, our simpler process will give us the advantage” (Bloomberg... View Details