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Shana Hoffman

loved ones access to customized care plans and provides them with education and resources on how to provide better care with less burden and lower cost. Even in its nascent stages, CareSolver has attracted favorable interest. The i-lab has View Details
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

there is a broad ecosystem of what we refer to today as climate tech — from renewable energy to advanced transportation to AgTech to name just a few. From a job function perspective, you can work at an operating company (whether a start... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
  • September 2006 (Revised November 2008)
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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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  • 24 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

prosperity it lost over the recent past. The difficulties will not disappear—much of the continent still faces massive problems of disease, conflict and resource depletion—but the world is turning its attention back to Africa, and there is View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 24 Mar 2016
  • Blog Post

Learning to Code at Business School

recent graduates who took CS50 to learn what the class is all about.  Samuel Gooch (MBA 2015) worked in renewable energy consulting before HBS and is now an engineering program manager at Apple. Sloan Holzman (MBA 2015) formerly worked at... View Details
  • 19 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

installing, and commercializing privately owned electric vehicle chargers. Tierra Climate - Jacob Mansfield (MBA 2023) - You can’t reach 100% renewables without energy storage, which is currently too costly to build. Tierra Climate is a... View Details
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

driven To Lead: Good, Bad, And Misguided Leadership By Paul R. Lawrence To deal with the much-discussed but still poorly understood complex of economic affairs known as globalization, we must examine its several forms from a Renewed... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information From the Chief Financial Officer After a year and a half of disruption caused by the global pandemic, fiscal 2022 was a year of renewal and growth for Harvard Business School.... View Details
  • 11 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’

change to economists, political scientists, sociologists, and a host of popular writers." A renewal of interest in the "history of capitalism" is finally beginning to correct this peculiar omission.   Related Article An... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
  • 11 Dec 2017
  • News

Growing from Within

expectations; helping us understand impact at the restaurant level of initiatives we are rolling out; and developing a pipeline of talent for the company. What have you seen as the largest growth drivers in the past 12 months? It all began with a View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Stephen Covey's Successful Habits

realized the value of listening as applied to business. You call one of your habits "sharpening the saw," or taking the time to reflect and renew the self. How do you convince Type-A people to do that? With great difficulty. The Western... View Details
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Sustainable investing and ESG resources

companies) Preqin
In addition to housing information on VCPE firms, funds, deals, and portfolio companies, it allows for the screening of sustainable industry sectors such as renewables and clean technology. ImpactAlpha’s... 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
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet

airline ticket, or renewing a car registration - users activate their wallets, which then enter credit card, billing, and shipping information onto a point-of-sale form with a single click. But even the most basic wallet doesn't stop... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 19 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

there is a broad ecosystem of what we refer to today as climate tech, from renewable energy to advanced transportation to AgTech, to name just a few. From a job function perspective, you can work at an operating company (whether a start... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

there is a broad ecosystem of what we refer to today as climate tech — from renewable energy to advanced transportation to AgTech to name just a few. From a job function perspective, you can work at an operating company (whether a start... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

New Wave

depends on tidal currents just as wind farms depend on wind. Like wind and solar energy, tidal and other forms of marine power such as wave energy consume no fossil fuels and produce no carbon emissions, yet they are far more reliable than their View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen
  • October 2011 (Revised November 2011)
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Verengo Solar Plus!

By: William A. Sahlman, Joseph B. Lassiter III and Liz Kind
In the three years since Bishop and Button purchased Verengo in a leveraged buyout (LBO), the company had gone through dramatic changes. Initially a residential windows and insulation firm, after the economic recession of 2008 the company switched gears and began... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Equity; Growth Management; Restructuring; Renewable Energy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Product Development; Energy Industry; California
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  • June 2015 (Revised August 2018)
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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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  • 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