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    Lyman Stewart

    Prior to starting the Hardison and Stewart Oil Company, the entity that later became Union Oil, Stewart engaged in several unsuccessful business ventures in the oil industry. At Union Oil, however, Stewart thrived as president, investing... View Details
    Keywords: Utilities & Energy
    • 12 Apr 2011
    • News

    Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

    '03 David Merle, MBA '03 Superdome building integrated photovoltaics India HBS Club of India Vikram Sharma, MBA '06 Crossover Energy sustainable energy services Latin America HBS Club of Brazil Thomaz... View Details
    Keywords: Multiple alumni
    • 25 Mar 2015
    • News

    The Greening of Houston

    (MBA 1991). Skelly, president and founder of Clean Line Energy Partners, was asked by the Partnership to serve on its board, but declined because he had just been appointed to the Houston Parks Board. He suggested Gilbane, whose company... View Details
    Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing
    • 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
    • 10 Jun 2022
    • Blog Post

    New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

    premium. Click Here to Watch Semi-Finalists Social Enterprise Track Semi-Finalist: EarthQuake Arnaud Pincet, MBA 2023; Edmund Lee, MBA 2023 At EarthQuake, we believe investing is just the first step toward transforming the companies of... View Details
    • 23 Feb 2011
    • News

    A Capitalist in China

    Kuhns: Wrote the book on Chinese business realities. When it comes to investing in China, financier and industrialist John Kuhns (MBA ’77) looks backward to see the way forward. “I have always invested in... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

      Ross S. Sterling

      Using proceeds from his feed store business, Sterling began investing in oil wells in 1909. Forming Humble Oil with several other astute oil businessmen, Sterling led his company through a strong expansion period, during which the... View Details
      Keywords: Utilities & Energy
      • 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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      • February 2007 (Revised June 2009)
      • Case

      Edelnor (A)

      By: Jordan I. Siegel
      Fernando del Sol, president of F. S. Inversiones in Chile, had just bought himself a headache as a New Year's present. On December 31, 2001, he purchased a Chilean electricity generation and transmission company called Edelnor that was in danger of becoming insolvent... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Courts and Trials; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Chile
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      • 25 Feb 2022
      • Blog Post

      Climate Stories

      Actionable Climate Literacy Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS... View Details
      • Web

      Student Clubs | MBA

      Beyond Dance Club Bitcoin & Crypto Club Black Investment Club Boat Club Brazilian-Portuguese Cultural Club Brew Club Business of Animal Protection Club Business of Sports Club C Canadian Club Cannabis Business Association Catholic... View Details
      • 08 Apr 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: April 8, 2008

      Offshore Wind Energy in the USA Harvard Business School Case 708-022 Cape Wind is an extreme example of NIMBY—not in my backyard syndrome. This is the first offshore wind project planned for the United States, in Nantucket Sound, just... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Profile

      Viktor Puzakov

      was interested in going to an investment bank; the interview process gave me a chance to test the environment. It was a big eye-opener. I realized I wanted a more balanced life and that investment banking... View Details
      • 01 Dec 2012
      • News

      Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources

      leadership of Henderson and Professor Forest Reinhardt, the BEI coordinates the activities of a large group of Harvard faculty members from multiple disciplines in an effort, Henderson says, "to create new business models that encourage sensible View Details
      Keywords: Dalai Lama
      • 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

        Jean Paul Getty

        billion in 1967. In 1949, the daring Getty paid $9.5 million for a sixty-year concession in Saudi Arabia’s half of the neutral barren tract lying between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. After an initial investment of $30 million, Getty’s... View Details
        Keywords: Utilities & Energy
        • 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
        • 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 Jun 1997
        • News

        Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets

        Lillian Too (MBA '76), formerly Kim Lim, is the executive chairman of her own publishing and investment company in Malaysia. She is the author of eight best-selling books on the ancient Chinese science of Feng shui (pronounced FUNG... View Details
        • 01 Aug 2001
        • News

        Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)

        HBS team that found that overseas investment by American companies benefited the U.S. economy by increasing exports and creating higher-paying jobs in this country. His testimony on Capitol Hill helped defeat bills aimed at restricting... View Details
        Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Educational Services