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  • 1999
  • Chapter

From Planning to Growth and Beyond: A Cross Industry Analysis of Entrepreneurial Priorities

By: Myra M. Hart, C. Brush and P. Greene
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Plan; Business Growth and Maturation
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  • 01 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower

York City, and is branching out across the U.S. In HBS Professor Michael Toffel’s podcast, Climate Rising, CEO Baird discussed the technical challenges of heat pump installation and financing. But creating jobs - permanent, localized, good paying View Details
  • 1998
  • Chapter

Resource Configurations Over the Life Cycle of Ventures

By: M. M. Hart, C. Brush and P. Greene
Keywords: Business Ventures; Resource Allocation
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  • 17 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

Some companies have begun relying more on computer-administered tests than human interviewers to find the best applicants. New research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Danielle Li and colleagues suggests that in this case,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment
  • 19 Mar 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

A Climate Change Optimist

power of consumers, investors, and businesses to create systems-level solutions. “On climate, it’s simple,” says Gravitz, “Stop putting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and draw what’s there back down.” For View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe
  • January 2002
  • Case

Teledesic

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Daniel J. Green and Douglas R Rogers
Management of a satellite-delivered broadband data communications company sets strategy in an uncertain environment, using Michael Porter's scenario planning tools to assess likely outcomes and determine which actions to take. This case draws a distinction between... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business or Company Management; Infrastructure; Strategic Planning; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy; Internet; Information Technology Industry
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  • 27 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis

(MBA 1980), president and CEO of the Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit Green America, leverages the economic power of consumers, investors, and businesses to create systems-level solutions. “On climate, it’s... View Details
  • August 2009 (Revised August 2010)
  • Case

Calera Corporation

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Thomas J. Steenburgh and Lauren Barley
Brent Constantz, founder, CEO, and president of Calera Corporation, felt a surge of optimism as he gazed at the recently commissioned prototype flue gas processing line at Calera's R&D facility in Moss Landing, California. It was late May 2009, and Calera was an... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Product Design; Product Development; Environmental Sustainability; Commercialization; Green Technology Industry
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  • February 2011
  • Supplement

The Fox Islands Wind Project (B)

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Evan Richardson
Fox Island Wind Cooperative faces criticism from local residents. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Cooperative Ownership; Business and Community Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Maine
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  • October 2009 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

1366 Technologies

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Ramana Nanda and David Kiron
Just months after declaring their intent to become a solar cell equipment supplier, van Mierlo and Sachs were again revisiting the issue of what the company should be. Becoming a successful solar cell manufacturer would potentially be much more lucrative than becoming... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Commercialization; Corporate Strategy; Green Technology Industry
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  • March 2013 (Revised March 2014)
  • Case

C12 Energy

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and James McQuade
C12 aimed to build not only a company, but an entire industry around carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). "You change the world by building a market, and you build a market by building a profitable company that other people copy," said Dawe, C12 Energy's CEO. "In... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Sequestration; Sustainability; Cleantech; Oil And Gas; Business Model; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; North America
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  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Child’s Play

Tak: Apps for childhood development. The Over in the Meadow Animated Storybook is an interactive, animated, and educational product, the first to be rolled out by a start-up called iMomConnect. It’s designed to help busy parents teach... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 02 Mar 2023
  • News

Carbon's Second Act

advancements in green energy production and the promise of direct air capture. But there was something missing. TB: There's a lot of people looking at how to make renewable energy that, when you generate it, doesn't produce CO2. And... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Brick by Brick

failed while a second succeeded. Stefan Thomke , the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration, wrote the case with Jan Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration,... View Details
Keywords: toys; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • September 1999
  • Background Note

Revolution in the Communications Switching Industry

By: Jay O. Light, Lynda M. Applegate and Daniel J. Green
As data packet switches threatened the voice circuit switch industry in 1999, major switch and router vendors began paying high premiums to acquire venture-backed switch companies. This note explains what a switch is and suggests why large vendors might be so anxious... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Restructuring; Capital; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Communications Industry; Electronics Industry
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Work Symposium. Laura Morgan Roberts has served on the faculties of Harvard Business School and Antioch University’s Graduate School of Leadership and Change. Robin Ely is Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of View Details
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

What's the Word?

like Reddit, analysts took note, with some investors pocketing millions—and others losing their shirts. “A meme stock is a stock whose price has ripped far away from any sense of the firm’s underlying fundamental value,” explains Lauren Cohen, the L.E. Simmons... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Martha Rich; Manufacturing; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • November 1995
  • Case

InterZine Productions, Inc.

By: William A. Sahlman and Jason Green
Brian Henley founded InterZine Productions to develop interactive multimedia content for America Online (AOL) and the Internet. With funding and support from AOL's Greenhouse program, Henley has launched Golf, a unique interactive golf service. While he has operated on... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Capital; Financing and Loans; Internet and the Web; Management Teams; Innovation and Invention; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • 17 Oct 2022
  • Blog Post

6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS

Sustainability is a core value at HBS, and we endeavor to build a healthier, more sustainable, and inclusive community. We know that environmental sustainability is of growing interest to our student community and teamed up with the HBS Sustainability Group... View Details