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- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
opportunities. And while oil prices continue to rise and fall, energy services firms are seeing rapid growth—especially those firms that provide services to both traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
descriptions, technical specs, and, most important, 3-D CAD geometry. In January, InPart will launch DesignSuite, an Internet service that companies such as Boeing and John Deere can use to improve engineering productivity. "Engineers... 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 Jun 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
believe it or not, is its own country.” — MICHAEL SKELLY (MBA ’91), founder of Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners, at the HBS “Think Tank on Energy, the Environment, and Business” conference, March 5, 2010. “You sell tickets, you... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
the New England power industry, where he played a key role in building a start-up company into a $300 million energy marketing enterprise. Seeds of Success When he rejoined Outward Bound full time at Thompson Island in 2005, Pearson... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
discussion, including the work conducted by Daniel P. Schrag, a SEAS professor who directs Harvard’s Center for the Environment, and Forest Reinhardt, HBS’s John D. Black Professor of Business Administration who also cochairs the School’s Global View Details
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Overview
My current research builds on past research on the role of information, analytics and technology in transforming business and society. Over the past two years, this research focuses on how organizations partner to build innovation ecosystems that accelerate the... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Ecosystems; Leadership And Change Management; Organizational Adaptation; Innovation and Invention; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Organizations; Technology; Strategy; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry; Africa; North and Central America; Middle East
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
weighed in on the current economic crisis but quickly moved on to advocate for energy independence and cross-sector cooperation between business and government. The panel featured John Doerr (MBA ’76), Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82), Anand... View Details
- January 2023
- Case
The Ford Motor Company Green Bond
By: Vikram S Gandhi and James Barnett
In November 2021, Ford Motor Company offered a $2.5 billion green bond to finance investments in electrification. Issuance of green bonds significantly increased into the 2020s, and to date, the Ford Motor Company green bond was the largest such bond offered by a... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Bonds; Green Technology; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
Gandhi, Vikram S., and James Barnett. "The Ford Motor Company Green Bond." Harvard Business School Case 823-069, January 2023.
- 12 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Electric Mobility in India
placed on the decarbonization of 2-wheeler mobility. Nevertheless, certain impediments to widespread adoption persist, including inadequate charging infrastructure, customer apprehension, and a shortage of domestic battery manufacturing capacity. Our site visits to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
ambitious goal is to be a “zero waste, zero carbon company, operating on 100 percent renewable energy in LEED certified buildings” by 2020. The case vividly documents some of the measures taken by Burt’s to meet that goal, such as a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides capital for projects that reduce... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
company's commitment to sustainability mean that firms that ignore this do so at their own risk. BMW Group has been a leader in recognizing this. Several years ago, it issued a Sustainable Value Report detailing energy consumed, water... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Shares Their Favorite Books for HR Leaders
forward in your careers? The examples and exercises in Getting Unstuck will help leaders and their employees better understand themselves and the type of work that will make them most fulfilled. Investing that kind of time and energy in... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother
engagement to help reach the University sustainability goals (you can read about the HU Sustainability Plan here). Prior to working at Harvard, I worked for a number of different entities on renewable energy policy, analysis, and... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
This is a repost from HBS Newsroom, see the original post here. “Climate change, and the energy and materials transition, is one of the most complicated and challenging business, geopolitical, and social issues of our century. At the same... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk
Initiative in which she leveraged her structured finance background and expertise from her tenure at Citigroup to focus on issues ranging from the financial structuring of renewable energy and infrastructure assets to climate-related... View Details
- 06 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Meet the Black Investment Club
companies, a sale of a health care portfolio company, and several debt refinancings to facilitate portfolio company growth. This summer, Akapelwa expanded on his financial services experience at Kohlberg & Company serving as a Private... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
in the last 150 years of U.S. business history. Barriers to Acting in Time on Energy, and Strategies for Overcoming Them Author:Max Bazerman Publication:Environment (in press). (Adaptation of a paper that originally appeared in K. Gallagher, ed. Acting in Time on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Going Green at HBS
conservation, eliminate the potential annual discharge of some 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the environment. Also at HBS, the Hamilton Hall renovation project, begun this past summer, is using “green” approaches to materials selection and to water and View Details