Publications

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

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

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

December 2022
Technical Note

Risks and Opportunities from the Transition to a Low Carbon Economy: A Business Analysis Framework

By: George Serafeim

The transition to a low carbon economy introduces many risks and opportunities for businesses. Risks emerge from regulatory actions, such as carbon taxes and cap and trade systems, technological innovation that develop alternatives for customers making existing... View Details

Keywords: Risk Assessment; Opportunities; Environmental Sustainability; Carbon Footprint; Risk Management; Competitive Dynamics; Business Analysis; Climate Change; Accounting; Finance; Valuation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Technological Innovation; Transition; Product Positioning; Renewable Energy; Analysis

25 Jun 2014
News

An International Perspective

School “opened my eyes to a whole new spectrum of opportunities” in the field of financing and building entrepreneurial energy services companies. His most recent focus as managing director at Houston-based SCF Partners is the development... 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

01 Jan 2008
News

John Doerr, MBA 1976

attention has focused on clean energy and the climate crisis. In May, KPCB announced its second fund in green technology, bringing its total investment in green solutions to $1.2 billion. Doerr describes... View Details

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

Joseph N. Pew

Having begun investing in oil while working in real estate, Pew eventually entered the industry full time, organizing several smaller entities into what became the Sun Oil Company. An innovator himself, Pew developed and patented the... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

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

January 2001 (Revised May 2010)
Case

BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane

British Petroleum and Amoco were the two largest members of the Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium (AIOC), an 11-firm consortium that was spending $10 billion to develop oil fields in the Caspian Sea. As of March 1999, AIOC had completed a $1.9 billion development... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Policy; Capital Budgeting; Project Finance; Emerging Markets; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom; Europe

28 May 2019
News

In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic

diversified the company’s interests by adding investments in energy and infrastructure to supplement Sintesa’s holdings in consumer and industrial products as well as property and development. Ten years on,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Offices of Other Holding Companies; Management

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

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

entrepreneurial bug bit soon after, Lo built a Groupon-like platform that helped smaller companies get product discounts. That startup, eZoka, was pulling in £1 million a month until outside investment was derailed by the attacks of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

Career Coach

Imam Akinlade

Imam wants to help students think critically about their career paths and what really maters most to them, Having gained significant experience in consulting, impact investing and clean energy before HBS;... View Details

22 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power

in the carbon mitigation industry. “This is a great time to be a clean energy innovator.” – Janice Tran, CEO and co-founder of Kanin Energy On July 12, 2022, Kanin Energy CEO... View Details

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