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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
electricity grid are associated with carbon emissions. But an electric vehicle is less carbon intense (in terms of pounds of CO2 per mile) than a 25-mile-per-gallon internal combustion engine vehicle—even if the electricity View Details
- 05 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
District Heating in Denmark: How Fjernvarme Fyn fuels an integrated and sustainable future
one of the largest district heating grids in the world, supplying 97% of residential heating needs in the Odense and Otterup areas. Fjernvarme Fyn site visit. Image Source: Bonnie Chen At Fjernvarme Fyn, we toured the central production... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
The results showed that this first-ever electric vehicle (EV) to support the New England electric grid earned more than $4,200 by participating in a utility demand response program. In August, Revel, an electric mobility and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
driven by the automotive industry, followed by smart grid stabilization solutions that provide “fill-in” power when customer demand outstrips supply. Given the technology’s potential applications and finite... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
efficiency and it’s up from near zero just five years ago. The mitigation projects are getting less traction from promoters for their reduction of CO2 emissions than they are getting from their resilience in the face of fuel scarcity and View Details
- 03 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
key role business leaders have to play in confronting climate change—and the power of HBS alumni to make a positive difference. +Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978) President, J Adams Strategic Communications; co-author of A Blessing: Women of... View Details
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IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
hydrokinetic technologies has subsequently risen to $109 million). Con Edison eventually invested in the company, but because there is no legal mechanism for paying a provider to deliver tidal power to the View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
workers, and the city—or private actors—has to invest in resource efficiency. So how can our water, fuel, and transit go further? By having multifamily housing, by having some kind of mass transit, by having a common water extraction and treatment regime, by having a... View Details
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
the Uber of farming, in that farmers have the knowledge base and the skills and all of the equipment necessary to do this but they are unable to buy additional land." Maria Woodman MBA 2018 | Power Flow "Electric vehicles are going to... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
and unreliable power grids in nations like Liberia and Tanzania. They don’t wait for government to connect the dots. The second and likely more powerful new capability arises... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
road or power grid is a competent counterparty. Make the cash flow tradable. Don't require the early investors to tie up risk capital for the 30-year life of an infrastructure project; get the debt or equity... View Details
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
traditional elements of energy transmission and delivery with information technology-heralds a new era in the power industry. Many new business opportunities will be created as the smart grid gets developed.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
for properties in Lagos’s well-to-do neighborhoods, but even there the power grid is so unreliable that tenants need to supply their own generators. Local suppliers were limited, so Dozie and his brother had... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
PublicationsHow Will You Measure Your Life? Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon Publication:HarperBusiness, forthcoming Abstract In 2010 world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
consistently outperformed the industry. The company's culture was on display during the power grid failure of September 2003, when two of Continental's three hubs went dark and other airlines grounded their... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
targeted firms. These results suggest a need to check the power of NPEs through changes in U.S. IP policy, in particular to screen out trolling early in the litigation process. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507082 PublicationsRealizing the Promise of Personalized Medicine Authors:Mara G. Aspinall and Richard G. Hamermesh Periodical:Harvard Business Review 85, no. 10 (October 2007) Abstract Scientific... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
existence of rural areas not supplied by grid electricity was an important motivation for early movers in both the U.S. and Denmark. Public policy was the problem rather than the opportunity for wind entrepreneurs before 1980, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne