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- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables
energy, and already 70 to 80 percent of its power comes from hydroelectric dams. But the volatility also means moments of scarcity, when renewable energy can’t be relied upon to keep the lights on. These fluctuations in the weather... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
lasting environmental change. “Obviously, we think we can make money for our investors,” Graziano says, “but it’s also about really being able to change the electrical grid. This is the grid that I grew up with. Now, it can all be changed with View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 14 Jan 2022
- News
Power Play
Courtesy Rahul Advani, Sara Graziano, Chris Smith When Rahul Advani (MBA 2004) began his investment career in 1996, focused on the energy sector, he thought a future of accessible and affordable clean energy... View Details
- Career Coach
Bryant Warmate
Bryant’s main interest is in the energy space, but he is also very interested in emerging countries as he lived mainly in Nigeria. He understands the need for more support in the climate & sustainability space and worked primarily... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
Weiss. “My second thought was, what are you doing to your company?” Selling hardware to budget-crunched cities can difficult. Bigbelly’s early pitch was that by providing trash compacting in the units (solar powered to boot), additional waste View Details
- 19 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
some storage, is not viable at the scale of energy storage India requires. Nuclear power, on the other hand, is already growing in India and plants can be located on more compact parcels. At present, there... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
marine-energy advocates contend that the combined levelized costs of energy and storage for wave and tidal will be lower than for wind and solar, and that all these energy... View Details
- 05 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
District Heating in Denmark: How Fjernvarme Fyn fuels an integrated and sustainable future
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
joining HBS. Cal Brooks (MBA 2022, Section A), Summer Internship: Commercialization Strategy Intern at Malta Malta is building a new type of electro-thermal energy storage system that can collect and store... View Details
Leon Hess
Starting with his father’s little, struggling fuel firm, Hess created a $10 billion oil refinery company, the worlds 13th largest, Amerada Hess. During the Arab oil embargo in 1973, with 68 million barrels of mainland storage capacity,... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 01 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami
ambitious offshore wind farm exemplifies how large-scale renewable energy infrastructure projects need to have actively supportive stakeholders throughout the process. Vineyard Wind won over community stakeholders initially which allowed... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in business and in public education
a movie theater company, Loews now has interests in several industries, including commercial property and casualty insurance, hotels, energy exploration, and natural gas and liquids storage and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
estate investment management Beau D'Arcy (MBA 2010) Effortless Efficiency, Inc. Naperville, IL Residential energy retrofit consulting, finance, and installation Justin Dawe (MBA 2007) C12 Energy Cambridge,... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
doctorate at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and on a dissertation entitled "On the Physics and Chemistry of Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in Terrestrial and Marine Environments." Dawe was the co-president of the HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
about generating “tens of thousands of ideas” for each film, and “allowing” creativity to burst forth. She left excited, wanting to know more about how all that creative energy was harnessed to create one hit film after another. So... View Details
- 19 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures
urban Nigerians with affordable financing for clean, reliable energy. We leverage group financing and carbon accounting to lower costs and risk in the energy transition of Nigeria's $14B fuel-based, off-grid generator market. PolyoseBio -... View Details
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IFC India 2025: From Gray to Green: A Glimpse of the Future of Green Hydrogen in India - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens
goal of being carbon neutral. 2. Replication: Several of the innovations used in Koppert Cress’s greenhouses might be replicated by other producers, including the heat/cold storage system, energy roof, and... View Details
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
renewable electricity into reliable, zero-emissions heat and power for industrial applications. Their innovative technology utilizes solid carbon blocks heated to high temperatures, enabling the storage of View Details