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  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

A Community Investment

energies to worthwhile causes beyond our jobs and our families. That is what's driving a lot of us to branch out into social and community activities beyond our business life. Jerry Ostrov: My impression is that there is a widely shared... View Details
  • 08 Jan 2016
  • News

Investing in Sustainability

later, as an analyst at Fidelity and a portfolio manager at SAC Capital. “I spent 15 years researching and trading in the food and energy space,” says Tiller. “In the course of doing my research, I developed views not just on what was... View Details
Keywords: April White; Agriculture
  • 18 Jul 2024
  • Blog Post

Building the Future: An HBS Alumna’s Journey in Sustainable Infrastructure Investment

Abisinuola David-Olusa (MBA 2024) is a recent graduate from Nigeria. Prior to HBS, she worked with an African-focused private equity fund deploying capital for infrastructure investing. At HBS, she was Section E’s Education Representative, and actively involved in... View Details
  • 08 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities
  • January 2022 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

TotalEnergies’ Investment in Hyzon Motors

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and David Lane
In November 2021, Girish Nadkarni, the head of TotalEnergies’ corporate venture capital arm (TEV) was considering whether, and on what terms, to exit an investment in Hyzon Motors, a start-up supplier of hydrogen-powered trucks. TEV had invested $4 million in Hyzon,... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Communication Intention and Meaning; Renewable Energy; Venture Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Design; Standards; Commercialization; Investment Portfolio; Market Transactions; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Transportation Industry; Europe; New York (city, NY)
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  • 05 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

Foreign investment in developing countries has always involved an element of risk. Just ask Verizon Communications, which could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in Venezuela should President Hugo Chávez follow through with plans... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Energy

    Divestment or Engagement? New Research on Innovation in the Energy Sector

    Why you should watch: A new and important NBER working paper, by Cohen, Gurun and Nguyen, takes a long hard look at innovation in the energy industry - and concludes that divestment campaigns targeted at fossil fuel companies may not just be ineffective.... View Details
    • 21 Nov 2017
    • News

    Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

    Justin Dawe (MBA 2007), president, Scoot Networks (photo courtesy of Scoot Networks) What do you think the state of the energy industry will be in 2030? HBS students in the Energy and Environment Club asked... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power
    • December 2019 (Revised January 2021)
    • Supplement

    The Leveraged Buyout of TXU: (B) Energy Future Holdings

    By: Trevor Fetter, Erik Snowberg and Rebecca M. Henderson
    This case is designed to support a lively discussion about the relative merits of shareholder vs. stakeholder perspectives in the context of a company that provides a vital public service that has important environmental implications. The 2007 purchase of TXU, the... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Transformation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Energy Generation; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Texas
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    • November 2009 (Revised April 2010)
    • Case

    Rose Smart Growth Investment Fund

    By: Arthur I Segel and Justin Seth Ginsburgh
    The Jonathan Rose Companies must decide how to design and launch an innovative new real estate fund focused on green and transit oriented properties. JRC seeks to show through the fund that smart growth and green buildings provide superior economic returns to sprawl... View Details
    Keywords: Property; Buildings and Facilities; Transition; Financing and Loans; Investment Funds; Investment; Marketing; Energy Conservation; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Finance; Real Estate Industry
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    • 04 Feb 2022
    • Blog Post

    Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

    I coach and company I meet with, from climate tech startups to renewable energy investment funds. You’ve worked with CPD for over 10 years. What trends have you noticed over that time? Specifically, what... View Details
    • 10 Nov 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

    Global developed, financed, owned, and operated environmentally sustainable energy generation and electric distribution facilities in Central America. In 1992, seven IC members invested $1.4 million in the... View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Salls
    • October 1994
    • Case

    Bankers Trust: Global Investment Bank

    By: Andre F. Perold and Kuljot Singh
    In October 1992, Eugene Shanks, president of Bankers Trust New York Corp., and Brian Walsh, head of the Global Investment Bank (GIB) business unit, are considering a proposal for a large and complex financing involving the North Sea Oil Co. (NSOC). The financing... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Risk Management; Value Creation; Business History; Capital Markets; Financing and Loans; Financial Markets; Corporate Finance; Energy Industry; Energy Industry
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    • August 2010 (Revised June 2020)
    • Teaching Note

    Generation Investment Management (TN)

    By: Sandra J. Sucher
    Teaching Note for 613-002. The case and/or its teaching note includes references to case supplement videos that are intended for students to view, along with the written case, before class. As a reminder, the (A) video supplement is intended for students to view... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Development Economics; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Generation; Rural Scope; Non-Renewable Energy; Pollutants; Financial Services Industry; India
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    • March 2019
    • Article

    Is There a Future for the Gas Network in a Low Carbon Energy System?

    By: Conor Hickey, Paul Deane, Celine McInerney and Brian O' Gallachoir
    This paper evaluates the potential low carbon opportunities for and challenges to the utilisation and financial performance of Ireland's gas distribution network within a series of low carbon scenarios. There has been a limited amount of academic literature published... View Details
    Keywords: Decarbonization; Investment; Risk and Uncertainty; Environmental Sustainability; Demand and Consumers; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Republic of Ireland
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    • 13 Apr 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

    In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Energy
    • June 2024
    • Teaching Plan

    Teaching Plan: EKI Energy Services: One Billion Carbon Credits

    By: George Serafeim
    Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 123-060. View Details
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    • 04 Mar 2022
    • Blog Post

    Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy

    Tell us a little about what you were doing before HBS and what brought you to HBS. Before applying to HBS, I was working at NextEra Energy, which is a large renewable energy company. I started on the renewable development team after I... View Details
    • 13 Jun 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

    Photo by iStock Investors in global equity markets have traditionally hedged their bets, casting their investments far and wide across the world. That way, if the market in one country or region stagnated (think Japan in the 1990s or... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
    • 09 Oct 2015
    • Blog Post

    Students, Alumni, and Colleagues Gather to Discuss Leadership in the Energy Industry

    conglomerates manage or adjust their investments in coming years? What are the key opportunities for businesses in the cleantech space? How long will it take for the oil markets to rebound, what represents a fair price, and how will that... View Details