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  • 16 Dec 2016
  • News

Kurt (MBA 1967) and Louise Wulff

background in oil and gas with his management education to become an oil analyst first at Arthur D. Little and then Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette. In 1987, he founded McDep, LLC, which conducts independent energy View Details
  • August 2014 (Revised May 2016)
  • Case

Husk Power

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Sid Misra
In late 2013, Husk Power Systems found itself falling further and further behind plan. The founding CEO had decided to resign. His co-founder is faced with the decision of quitting his corporate job in the US to head to India and help form a new management team. Husk... View Details
Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Model; Business Startups; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Foreign Direct Investment; International Finance; Globalized Markets and Industries; Crime and Corruption; Employee Relationship Management; Independent Innovation and Invention; Employment; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Management Succession; Management Skills; Emerging Markets; Social Psychology; Culture; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Africa; India; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Green Day

Caufield & Byers have invested over $200 million in green technologies; Mark Tercek (MBA 1984) serves as president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy; and Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 09 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk

Initiative in which she leveraged her structured finance background and expertise from her tenure at Citigroup to focus on issues ranging from the financial structuring of renewable energy and infrastructure assets to climate-related... View Details
  • 27 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis

back down.” FUNDING THE EARTH’S NATURAL INFRASTRUCTURE  Pat Coady’s (MBA 1966) lifelong love of the outdoors and career as an investment banker have led to such projects as the conservation of almost 4,000 acres of an historic Northern... View Details
  • Web

Policy - Business & Environment

2019 survey by Yale and George Mason University: 87 % of people surveyed supported investments in renewable energy (infrastructure and research) 82 % supported regulating GHG emissions (requiring companies... View Details
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Confronting Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

searching for: climate risk and opportunities "business models" Statista - Find quick statistics, studies, infographics and more. Browse statistics related to View Details
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

losses in June. Will crypto overcome the challenges on the road to mainstream adoption? What’s standing in its way? HBS faculty members Charles C.Y. Wang, who has written about public firms’ investments in, and accounting for,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
  • 26 Jun 2013
  • Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

2001 to 9 million today), especially girls. But the bad news is they have no jobs to look forward to. Although stability and security facilitate investing for the long term, they are not enough. Afghans must have credible information... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
  • September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
  • Case

Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Gain Liquidity

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Evan Richardson
Samir Kaul, a Partner at Khosla Ventures, looked out his office window. It was late June, 2011, and like almost every day in Menlo Park, the sun was shining. Kaul was reflecting on what had been a very positive 10 months in the venture capital business. Over that span,... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Business or Company Management; Partners and Partnerships; Product Development; Investment Portfolio; Financial Services Industry
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  • 17 Nov 2016
  • News

Wired for Innovation

challenges. In his latest role, as founder and president of Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners, he hopes to push the United States closer to what he considers an attainable national goal: a 30 percent reliance on renewable energy.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 12 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

two wars, and you have a hobbled government that is not making investments in the commons," Rivkin said. Many companies have recognized the problem and are already making investments in public goods, he... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

    Harry F. Sinclair

    After ill-fated attempts to make money by buying and selling oil leases, Sinclair entered the refining business in 1906, acquiring several companies that were eventually consolidated into Sinclair Oil. Once the larger venture was created, Sinclair View Details
    Keywords: Utilities & Energy
    • 01 Dec 2019
    • News

    Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change

    HBS Professor Mike Toffel; Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), cofounder and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC; Gina McCarthy, Director of C-CHANGE (Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of... View Details
    Keywords: Jen Myers
    • December 2017 (Revised June 2021)
    • Case

    Tesla's Bid for SolarCity

    By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Raaj Zutshi
    In October 2016, Tesla asked its shareholders to ratify their $2.4 billion bid for SolarCity. Tesla had announced a series of large projects in the preceding months including the unveiling of the Model 3, the new Solar Roof, and pushing forward the opening of the... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business and Shareholder Relations; Project Finance
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    • 18 Oct 2016
    • News

    China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer

    investing in fellow HBS alumnus Scott Cook’s (MBA 1976) Intuit Inc. “I tried but I lost the deal and I still think about it 27 years later,” Breyer told a room full of young entrepreneurs and budding venture capitalists in Boston on... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Myers
    • 19 May 2023
    • Blog Post

    Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change

    explained that transforming global energy systems will require additional investments of some $2.4 trillion annually—the equivalent to about one-quarter of U.S. corporate profits, or half of federal tax... View Details
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    Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change

    the impact investment sector. Also includes the ImpactSpace database that includes information on and investors and over 4,000 impact investment deals  Preqin - profiles and screening... View Details
    • 07 Mar 2024
    • Blog Post

    IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India

    innovation wave stands Log 9 Materials, a beacon of nanotechnology and graphene innovation. Established in 2015 by Akshay Singhal and Kartik Hajela, (and later with Pankaj Sharma), two visionaries from IIT Roorkee, Log 9 stands out as a company not merely content with... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2017
    • News

    Talent: The Best Employee Perk?

    “[Just] as organizations that invested financial capital more wisely than their rivals performed better in the past, the companies that do the best job of managing time, talent, and energy are the ones that... View Details