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- 06 May 2025
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The Incredible Land of Ice and Fire: Exploring Iceland's Renewable Energy Model for a Changing Planet
Imagine a place where all electricity comes from clean sources, where most cars are EVs and can be charged on almost every street, where daily hot water for homes and pools is drawn from the depths of the Earth, and where sweet tomatoes can grow even in the starkest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo
facilities or your utilities, it means that your electric prices have gone down. And everyone else’s electric prices are going up. So it’s making business here more competitive—especially energy-intensive... View Details
- 19 Mar 2024
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IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
continue to develop while decarbonizing its energy use? The reality is that today, 60% of India’s electric power comes from coal plants like Trombay, which play a critical role in continued economic growth. That figure is much higher than... View Details
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
and electricity companies. The news headlines make the arrival of a new book on protecting foreign investment more prescient. Professor Louis T. Wells and coauthor Rafiq Ahmed recently published Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property... View Details
James L. Broadhead
Broadhead reshaped the FPL Group to be more competitive through a major streamlining program. He eliminated 80% of the corporate procedures and shortened the remaining 20%. Under Broadhead's tenure, FPL’s customers bought their electric... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 29 Jul 2021
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Support System
selling them. The problem these shea-nut pickers faced, says Naa-Sakle Akuete (MBA 2014), CEO and founder of Eu’Genia Shea and its Target-based sister brand, Mother’s Shea, is that they are largely women in villages without electricity... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
wind energy, electric vehicles, drainage systems, and natural ventilation are easy for those entities to justify on their economic return on investment, and that’s why they embrace those ideas. Additionality matters. The alumni group... View Details
- 13 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
Video: Introduction to the Harvard MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences
Walsh: We try and give students an idea of the early-stage product development process. So how do they go from an idea to creating a prototype and then be able to demonstrate that in some way. They're getting lots of exposure to mechanical engineering, prototyping,... View Details
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Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Motor Co. United Fruit Co. Smaller Collections Yousuf Karsh Portraits Margaret Bourke-White Farm Security Administration 1934 Art and Industry Exhibition Early Aviation Electric Railway Jones & Laughlin Steel 19th-Century Boston Portrait... View Details
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Factory Cabling Department, ca. 1925 – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Back to Exhibit Page Cord Cabling Department, ca. 1925 Western Electric Company Photograph Album © 2007 President and Fellows of Harvard College; all rights reserved. Baker Library | Historical Collections |... View Details
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Factory Cabling Department, ca. 1925 – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Back to Exhibit Page Factory Cabling Department, ca. 1925 Western Electric Company Photograph Album © 2007 President and Fellows of Harvard College; all rights reserved. Baker Library | Historical Collections... View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Business Summit: China in the Global Economy
Stropki, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc.G. Richard Wagoner, Chairman and CEO, General Motors CorporationMarjorie Yang, Chairman, The Esquel Group While the global economic downturn will... View Details
Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS
successful door-to-door salesmen. Yunus described several sustainable “social businesses” (all profits to the enterprise) he has launched in Bangladesh. They include Grameenphone, which put cell phones into the hands of millions of poor, rural women, and a venture that... View Details
John D. Ryan
Ryan’s negotiation skills helped put an end to bitter competition among Montana copper moguls in the early 1900s. When he assumed control of Anaconda, he capitalized on the increasing importance of copper in electricity production,... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
student essays that highlight their reflections. As part of our Immersive Field Course at the Harvard Business School, our class had the chance to visit Amager Bakke, a waste-to-power site in Copenhagen that safely and responsibly turns waste from the city and... View Details
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Daily History Record, October 16 and 17, 1929, First Relay Assembly Test Group – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library, Historical Collections
HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Back to Exhibit Page Daily History Record, October 16 and 17, 1929, First Relay Assembly Test Group Western Electric Company Hawthorne Studies Collection © 2007 President and Fellows of Harvard College; all... View Details
- 15 Jan 2025
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Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners
electricity crises (among others) in its history. On top of that, given the pressing need to address the climate crisis, I sought a summer role with a firm focused on sustainable infrastructure investment. This internship allowed me to... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Joseph Abel
electricity from the sun,” Joe explains, “but there’s a huge up-front cost.” To overcome the obstacle, Sungevity packages panel-installation and financing together, offering customers a solar-energy purchase similar to a lease on a car.... View Details
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Andrew Dervan
operations in a General Electric jet engine facility. "I think of the operating room from the perspective of a doctor," Andrew says. "But wouldn't it be great if I could learn from GE, if I could gain expertise in workflows... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
workplace. Across six studies, we found convergent evidence that emotional acknowledgment led to greater perceptions of costliness, and in turn, to higher evaluations of trust.” Working Papers Deregulation, Market Power, and Prices: Evidence from the View Details