Energy Generation - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green

calling for using city investments in energy efficiency to generate savings that would be reinvested in solar power. Inspired by their success, Dawe took an 80 percent pay cut and moved to Colorado to work... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

11 Feb 2019
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John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”

consumer apps to research in things like healthcare and energy management. The philosophical implications are enormous: machine learning is going to change everything.” In addition to his core assignments, Bracaglia took advantage of... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

01 Mar 2009
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Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems

optimistic about young people from 18 to 29, citing their high energy and entrepreneurial spirit. Combining those youthful traits with the wisdom of baby boomers is a pairing of forces and generations that... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

issues at all generally brush them off, believing that the problems can and will be solved by better governance and more political will, that states will take care of it. But the third troublesome phenomenon is that governments clearly... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

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Student Clubs | MBA

Coffee and Tea Club Conservative Club Consulting for Impact Club Crimson Parents D Democrats, Liberals, Progressives Club E Education Club Energy & Environment Club Entertainment & Media Club Entrepreneurship Club Entrepreneurship Through... View Details

24 Oct 2023
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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco

of 2003) Chief Operating Officer at Generate Capital The panelists discussed their views on the evolution of the climate investment landscape and how investments have changed from the first wave of investments in renewable View Details

17 Apr 2024
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New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

individual cow health and behavior, empowering farmers and providing peace of mind as they make better high-value livestock management decisions on breeding, disease, and feed programs. EnergAI - Aron Sass (MBA 2025), Balint Varga - EnergAI delivers an AI-powered... View Details

08 Jun 2023
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Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details

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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog

particular research work stream. Potential work streams include energy generation (renewables, cleaner fossil fuels, biomass, and green hydrogen), mobility, clean-tech, agriculture including dairy, urban... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Howard Stevenson: The Personal Side

Entrepreneurship group here at HBS, in pursuing a whole host of generous philanthropic activities from NPR to the environment to just plain helping those in need, Howard has been a nonstop ball of energy and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

23 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. The trend of mandatory sustainability reporting picked up steam as consumers, investors, and civil society in general increasingly demonstrated that they value the social... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2019
News

The Blue-Green Revolution

removed from fossil crude. As a result, algae could pull fossil-fuel generated CO2 out of the atmosphere and transform it into nearly carbon-neutral diesel or jet fuel with minimal environmental impact—a handy trick when demand for... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist

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Marsha Faradina

Marsha has 8 years of experience in the energy industry (oil & gas/power generation) and was in consumer goods for her first job. She switched to consulting and moved from Asia to the US. Therefore, she enjoys assisting students... View Details

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Hope Carlson

moving forward. To renew with fresh energy each second. To listen outside and inside yourself. To support yourself and to be aware. I want to sing my life. To let go of fear and worry. To delight in the melody of each sliver of grass and... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

Start It Up

MOOREHEAD: A green start-up designed to reduce the human and monetary costs of war. While serving in different parts of the world as a Navy SEAL, Doug Moorehead (MBA 2007) observed firsthand the human and material cost of energy... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

January 2013
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Cabot Corporation: The Fuel Cell Decision (A)

By: Willy Shih and Ying Zhou

Managers at Cabot Corporation are faced with deciding the future of its fuel cell program. The (A) case recounts the view of the business manager and the technical project lead, and the (B) case describes the perspective of a senior manager who is the head of the New... View Details

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Ben Faw

of duty, previous injuries from an airborne exercise worsened on the field, leading him to seek less strenuous duty. In a move that is unusual for an infantry officer, Ben became an aide-de-camp to a one-star general in the Army Corp of... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Technology; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future

Three decades ago, Energy Future, a bestseller written at HBS, declared that American energy independence and sustainability were critical to the country’s well-being. Today, the book’s analysis is still... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

25 Aug 2022
News

Clean Slate

be able to plug right in. Massport will also use its facilities to generate as much renewable energy as possible on-site and invest in carbon offsets to make up the difference, among a host of other... View Details

19 Mar 2024
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IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways

emissions is to shut it down. That is a difficult proposition in the context of India’s rapidly expanding economy where demand for stable, uninterrupted power is growing. Mumbai, like much of India, has a fast-growing population with increasing View Details

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