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Impact Investing Interest Group | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

your alumni profile to include the tag! Events October 2024 Annual HBS Alumni Reception at SOCAP Each fall at the SOCAP annual conference, members of the Impact Investing Alumni Interest Group gather for a special session together to make and View Details

05 Feb 2025
Blog Post

Leadership with purpose: Redefining success and impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019)

individual journeys, challenges, and aspirations. These moments gave me a greater appreciation for my own strengths and a renewed sense of purpose. Engaging with the individuals featured in case studies further enriched the experience.... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

17 Nov 2022
News

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

decarbonization will pay climate dividends for decades to come. Matthew Arnold (MBA 1995) CEO, Unimacts Global I have been involved in renewables since I went to work for Kenetch Windpower during my time at HBS in the early 1990s, and... View Details

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Juan Camargo

When the 2014 Cadillac ELR—the carmaker's new electric luxury vehicle—rolled onstage at the Detroit auto show earlier this year, Juan Camargo (MBA 2012) sat in the fourth row, beaming. And it wasn't just because, as assistant marketing manager at Cadillac, Camargo is... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology; Consumer Products

3 PM – 4 PM EST, 11 Dec 2017
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Entrepreneurship: Failing Well

Most ventures fail. Most lives are built on journeys that did not get to their desired destination. How can we think about failure as a necessary part of growth and learn to fail well? View Details

Mar 2012
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Green Rules to Drive Innovation

increasing carbon charge; this would help internalize environmental costs, drive investment in energy efficiency, encourage innovation in renewable power, and raise substantial revenues that could reduce the national debt. Second, they... View Details

22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

technologies like Sorbent Ventilation Technology. This federal down payment on building decarbonization will pay climate dividends for decades to come. Matthew Arnold (MBA 1995) CEO, Unimacts GlobalI have been involved in renewables since... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Yurt Man

the skin-ripping heat.” Observed Zwern, “Every CO2 molecule out there came from a carbon atom somebody burned. With mirrors, lensing, and focusing, we can use the sun directly instead of in the form of ‘batteries’ like wood and coal that View Details

Keywords: Construction; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2005
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Fall Reunions

More than 1,800 alumni and guests made the trek to the HBS campus in late September for fall reunion weekend, a chance to renew old friendships and step back into the classroom —without fearing a cold call — for engaging faculty... View Details

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

31 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978

hottest since record keeping began in 1940. Three of our classmates are on the leading edge of efforts to address the climate crisis, in the fields of bio agriculture, building renewable energy infrastructures worldwide, and creating... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Fueling a sustainable enterprise in Brazil

Ana Maria Diniz (OPM 36, 2007) found a way to convert elephant grass into clean energy. She combined her interest in renewable energy and her keen business sense to cofound Sykué Bioenergya SA, which provides equivalent power to 200,000... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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The Power of Prayer

These days, getting money and housing together is a tricky issue. So there was good news from Florida, one of the hardest hit real-estate markets, when the Miami-area chapter of the Collective Banking Group (CBG) renewed its partnership... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

Vacuum is commercializing technology developed at Harvard that mimics the ocean's natural process of absorbing C02 using renewable electricity. Click Here to Watch Alumni Track Winner: FleetZeroSteven Henderson, MBA 2016Fleetzero is... View Details

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Lourdes Long

Human energy is renewable energy. My energy doesn't come from pipelines or wires. My energy comes from tackling intellectual and personal challenges. I once told my father I had to stop studying medicine because, "I wanted to do... View Details

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Michael Cheng | MBA

Michael Cheng History/Mathematics Quincy 2022 Cohort 3 "The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless." —Jean-Jacques Rousseau Tech areas of interest Renewable energy and artificial intelligence. Formative... View Details

July 2020
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CSL Capital Management: Patriot Proppants (A)

By: Victoria Ivashina and Yury Kapko

This two-part case series follows CSL Capital’s 2009 investment in the greenfield manufacturing company, Patriot Proppants. CSL, a recently established investment firm, employs a unique investment model, funding new ("green field") energy service businesses that serve... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Renewable Energy; Business Model; Decision Making

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24 Apr 2014
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MBAs take their business acumen on the road

and hit the road this summer. Alaoui recalls the work MBAxAmerica did for Sebastian Jackson, owner of the Detroit barbershop Social Club Grooming Co. Jackson wanted to donate hair shavings to accelerate compost for urban renewal projects.... View Details

08 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities

07 Jul 2016
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Creating a Viable Future in Rural Africa

for Renewable Energy and Appropriate Technology for the Environment (CREATE!), she says, “We are training very capable people to do things they never knew existed and to achieve mastery of them.” Established in 2008, CREATE! establishes... View Details

17 Jul 2017
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HBS Summer Interns: Discover Their Career Passions

renewable energy, Molly Middaugh accepted a position at Next Era Energy where she will be on their resource development team working on their battery-storage products. Rebecca Scharfstein, a joint-degree student at the Harvard Kennedy... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Technology; Manufacturing; Consumer Products / Retail

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