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13 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India

India’s coal conundrum firsthand. Despite our preconceived images of soot-covered walls, we were startled by the cleanliness and modernity of the facility. Tata Power has invested heavily in technology to limit pollutants like nitrous... View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

obtain a master's degree from the Michigan Technological University. Thirty-two years later, a young Indian in Bangalore, Saumil Majmudar, started a small company. Those two events are connected by a trail of knowledge accumulation and... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

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Online Transforming Customer Experiences Course | HBS Online

transition from one to the other. Highlights Funding and Timing The Bermuda Triangle Creating a Guiding Coalition Show Hide Details Concepts Managing Growth: Scaling Up and Avoiding Bottlenecks Navigating View Details

13 Jan 2021
News

Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

provide electricity that is affordable, and reliable, and sustainable, using a technology called solar-powered mini-grids. What that means is, we provide electricity to people who don't have it in rural villages across West Africa.... View Details

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

on things like education. " The bundled payment pilot test is small—only 13 patients so far, possibly scaling to 150 by the end of the three-year trial. But it has made big waves in the health care industry, not only flying in the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

15 Feb 2023
News

Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

Kenny (MBA 2019), the director of strategy and projects at Carbon Capture Inc. She's describing the technology at the heart of the young company's ambitious decarbonization efforts. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck... View Details

15 Nov 2020
News

Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS

technology for creating podcasts, videos, and webinars. During the pandemic, podcasts are being recorded remotely. Popular Episodes Walmart’s Strategy to Beat Amazon; and Millennial Socialism Three professors discuss how Walmart is trying... View Details

29 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

ownership in a small group of investors—reflecting the smaller subset of investors who place value on environmental benefits, such as funds that have some green or social investing orientation. While the difference in return is admittedly small, it could be a factor in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Green Technology; Green Technology; Green Technology; Green Technology; Green Technology

22 Aug 2019
News

Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector

out in his HBS admission essay: “When I graduate,” Sulyman wrote, “I'm going to go back to Africa and lead a technology company that is creating massive impact that will propel Africa into the future.” Today, Sulyman is carrying out that... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Building a Movement

things. Of course technology affords us that ability these days, but it will require a bit more perspective shift too. Whenever we’re with students in the classroom—with MBAs or senior executives from around the world—their experience... View Details

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

moves itself. According to industry observers, Merck intends to use this period in which its competitors are busy with postmerger integration to improve its position through aggressive marketing and other initiatives. Make Friends. Another alternative to the mega-deal... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar

02 Apr 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: A Circular Journey Through JSW Cement - From Steel Slag to Stronger Shores

cater to diverse customer requirements, they still maintain a small production line dedicated to traditional 100% clinker cement. This balanced approach ensures they can meet the needs of all their customers while steadily pushing towards sustainable cement production.... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

constantly changing environment, companies must deploy talent in new ways to remain competitive. The authors provide leaders with a new playbook for acquiring, managing, and deploying talent for today’s agile, digital, analytical, View Details

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

entrants, underscoring the growing level of interest and opportunities to address this critical issue. The winners of both the Tough Tech Prize and Alumni Track had innovative approaches to confronting the climate challenge: Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023) won the Tough... View Details

23 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

technologies and partners. Focuses on the partnership tensions between global firms and local family-dominated conglomerates. Addresses new venture financing in an asset-intensive business through the assembly of strategic contracts. More... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

chapters how entrepreneurs both inside and outside of government can tackle problems by viewing them as opportunities, trying new ideas, scaling them up, and improving public life. “I’m not saying we should take all the behaviors of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Students Reflect on COP28

Some of the best connections were serendipitous, sitting down at a lunch bench next to solar engineers who taught me about the necessity of tracking panels for Middle East projects or investors in South Asian two and three wheeler mobility companies that are working on... View Details

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

Abstract—In this paper, we develop a new model for government cost-benefit analysis in the presence of risk. In our model, a benevolent government chooses the scale of a risky project in the presence of two key frictions. First, there are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Aug 2020
Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice

courage to finally do so myself. The Social Enterprise Fellowship has provided tremendous resources that have allowed me to improve the program and guided me toward the longer term thinking that is necessary to scale and continue the... View Details

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Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure! - 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

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