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  • 07 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

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
  • October 1999 (Revised April 2003)
  • Case

International Investor, The: Islamic Finance and the Equate Project

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Mathew M Millett
Equate Petrochemical Co. (Equate) is a joint venture between Union Carbide Corp. and Petrochemical Industries Co. (PIC) for the construction of a $2 billion petrochemical plant in Kuwait. The sponsors began construction in August 1994, using a bridge loan, and are in... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Project Finance; Religion; Investment; Finance; Mining Industry; Mining Industry; Kuwait
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  • September 2020 (Revised November 2020)
  • Case

d.light

By: Michael Chu, Krishna G. Palepu and Dilyana Karadzhova Botha
Kenyan off-grid-solar pioneer d.light can power entire homes in rural Africa but must now decide how to fund the growth of its asset-heavy business model. Ned Tozun and Sam Goldman founded d.light in 2006 to transform lives through solar solutions enabling access to... View Details
Keywords: Alternative Energy; Business Model; Capital; Emerging Markets; Expansion; Financial Strategy; Renewable Energy; Strategy; Social Entrepreneurship; Energy Industry; Africa; Kenya; India
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  • 15 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Engaging Supply Chains in Climate Change

Keywords: by Chonnikarn Fern Jira & Michael W. Toffel
  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Skydeck - Alumni

Airlines CEO Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) recounts the radical ideas and relentless negotiations that transformed the airline industry The Musts of 2024 Alumni recommendations from the year in media Solving the Underemployment Crisis More... View Details
  • 04 Aug 2023
  • Blog Post

Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture

carbon dioxide.” Carbon capture technologies seek to pull carbon directly out of the atmosphere, then either use it to make something useful—say, plastic—or sequester it underground to mineralize. The challenge, of course, is that CO2 is only 0.04 percent of the... View Details
  • 27 Jul 2021
  • Op-Ed

What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership

In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
  • January 2013 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

First Solar: CFRA's Accounting Quality Concerns

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Ian McKown Cornell
The case relates to accounting quality analysis conducted by the leading research firm Center for Financial Research and Analysis (CFRA) on companies in the solar industry with a focus on First Solar Inc. In 2009, CFRA was concerned that First Solar, like much of the... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Accounting Quality; Financial Accounting; Financial Statement Analysis; Accounting Fraud; Accounting Red Flags; Accounting Scandal; Risk and Uncertainty; Quality; Earnings Management; Valuation; Crime and Corruption; Financial Statements; Energy Sources; Green Technology Industry; Accounting Industry; Energy Industry
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  • Web

HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

companies, and markets. 10:45 a.m. Rebuilding Industry and Infrastructure: The Need for a New Climate Workforce Faculty Moderator: Eleanor Laurans (MBA 2006) , Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Speakers: Evette Ellis , Cofounder... View Details
  • 02 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 2

boundaries of firms. And it also studies the development of British industrial science in universities and efforts to promote innovation through the formation of industry clusters. Overall, the evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is Government Just Stupid? How Bad Decisions Are Made

In "You Can't Enlarge the Pie," the authors argue that barriers to effective government decision making result in poor decisions about critical issues like the environment, organ transplants, and energy policy. Why? Because... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, Jonathan Baron & Katherine Shonk
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services industries and ownership structures such as state-owned firms, business groups, and private and foreign firms. Detailed balance sheet and ownership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

returned to their organizations to lead inspiring projects that developed wonderful, strategic Balanced Scorecards. But not all of these companies were able to sustain the energy to deliver the results we reported in Chapter 1. What helps... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2024

Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2024 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
  • 09 Nov 2022
  • In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost

    Michael A. Wheeler

    Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

    Keywords: e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry
    • Web

    Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

    environmental governance. The chapter explores two different historical paths in such private regulation and how they came about. The first path involved certification and standards programs designed to facilitate the growth of green View Details
    • 20 Jul 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

    innovative operating system and mouse, and Apple's current OSX operating system. Networking. Innovators spend a lot of time and energy finding and testing ideas through a diverse network of individuals who vary wildly in their backgrounds... View Details
    Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen
    • 01 Jun 2024
    • News

    Quantum Leap

    Scalable Energy Efficient Quantum Computing and pronounced “seek”—is using to achieve this computational dream looks like something straight out of a sci-fi film. The gleaming steel cylinders hanging from the ceiling, for example, are... View Details
    Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing