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  • 22 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Earth Day 2022 with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative

The speakers were just as varied, from vegan Olympian Seba Johnson to prominent documentary director of Game Changers, Louie Psihoyos. Read More >> Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy By Alsey Davidson There are so... View Details
  • 15 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Kelly Ogiesoba

across pricing, revenue growth, strategy, and M&A (merger and acquisitions) deals. NextEra Energy, Project Manager, 30 months: Part of my work here was centered around the traditional work of a renewable developer as I worked to... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

offers incentives - in the form of credits or allowances - for states that either meet their goals early or exceed the reduction requirements. Nuclear power plays a role in the Clean Power Plan, along with renewable energy sources such as... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment

mitigating risks, pursuing new opportunities, and participating in the policy arena,” says Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative. “You don’t have to work for an... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Ears to the Ground

coverage leads to better results, Clark says, and a greater likelihood of a city renewing its subscription. The ShotSpotter process begins with a gunshot, which activates its audio sensors. Data is sent to a cloud-based software system,... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer; photography by Vance Jacobs
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad

London after leaving Soldiers Field. Then, in the late '90s, Barry came home — for good, he says — as a manager for National Toll Roads in Dublin. The company, which focuses on road infrastructure, waste management, and renewable energy... View Details
  • June 2015 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

American Electric Power: Facing the Challenges of Distributed Generation

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Hilary White
American Electric Power, like most utilities in the USA, is currently exposed to distributed generation and the problem of net-metering. Solar installations in particular have been heavily subsidized, by the state and by regulation, which does not allow grid operators... View Details
Keywords: Electricity; Utilities; Electric Power Generation; Net Metering; Distributed Generation; Disruptive Innovation; Energy Markets; Solar Power; Wind Power; Solar; Wind; Subsidies; Legislation; Regulation; Disruption; Energy; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Information Technology; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Utilities Industry; United States
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  • 19 Jun 2014
  • News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) via a vote of the public. The RPS requires utilities to produce a specific percentage of power from renewable sources, and because of the ballot measure's popularity and... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • Web

Climate Action Now - Course Catalog

proceed. Solutions explored will include renewable energy, such as offshore wind farms; electric school buses and vehicle fleets; green buildings and districts, including a model sports arena and air conditioning innovations; and climate... View Details
  • November 2020 (Revised May 2023)
  • Case

Holaluz: Taking on the Spanish Energy Market

By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg, Elena Corsi and Emer Moloney
In 2020, the three cofounders of Holaluz, a newcomer to Spain’s electricity retail market, are preparing to launch a new offering: installing and managing solar panels on households' roofs at no extra cost for the consumer, who would still benefit from the energy... View Details
Keywords: Electricity; Solar Power; Subscription Business; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Service Delivery; Business Model; Product Launch; Marketing; Energy Industry; Spain
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  • 13 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably

powering their brewery in 2008 to one back-up boiler today by switching to sourcing “green heat” from nearby sustainable energy producer, Twence, which uses renewable energy sources to deliver piped hot water to the brewery. Grolsch is... View Details
  • Fast Answer

Sustainability in the Transportation Industry

renew the California Transportation Plan (CTP), updating its models and policy considerations to reflect industry changes every five years. This document is envisioned as a reference for modelers and decision makers. It aggregates current... View Details
  • Web

Access & Use Baker Library | Baker Library

loan to eligible Harvard ID holders. Please visit the Harvard Library Borrowing page for more information on borrowing policies & procedures. Harvard Library: Borrow, Renew & Return Library Materials Proxy Accounts Faculty may sponsor up... View Details
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Fall Reunions Stimulate and Revitalize

including the Boston Ballet, the John F. Kennedy Library, and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. The Class of 1972 held a celebration at International Place, thanks to 25th Reunion chairman Donald J. Chiofaro; a highlight of their gathering was a performance by Mary... View Details
  • 10 Aug 2017
  • News

Into the Light

real interest was in creating “electrical grids that leveraged 100 percent renewable energy.” In the United States, with its fixed infrastructure, such a goal seemed impossible. But in communities without electricity, Poindexter saw the... View Details
Keywords: April White; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

New Releases

an eight-step process to help firms achieve the lasting organizational transformations essential for success in the coming decades. The Balanced Scorecard by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press) After years of cost-cutting and... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger

order to cover SPI's operating expenses. He notes that the program gives people the means to create an independent, renewable food supply, which builds esteem and has the added benefit of being more cost-effective than continuously... View Details
  • September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

GreenFire Energy, 2020: Geothermal Innovation

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In June 2020, GreenFire Energy Inc. (GreenFire) presented its report to the California Energy Commission indicating that its proof of concept project to demonstrate its new geothermal electricity generation technology, ECO2G™, had been a success. While conventional... View Details
Keywords: Geothermal Electricity; Renewable Energy; Energy Generation; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions
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  • September 2006 (Revised November 2008)
  • Case

Supergrid

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Supergrid is a mammoth wind-power development scheme for Europe, recently proposed by Airtricity. This firm, founded in 1997, is a fast-growing power-development company focused on wind. Already having built about 600 megawatts of wind turbines in Scotland and Ireland,... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Performance Capacity; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Industry; Europe; United States
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  • Profile

Eryn Schultz

me have the confidence to leave consulting and to take an operations job at a Texas-based grocery retailer. Not only would I get direct P&L responsibility, but I would also get to try moving back to my hometown and working in the food industry. Second, HBS made me... View Details
Keywords: Services; Consumer Products