Publications

January 2024
Case

U.S. Policy and Battery Supply Chains

By: Debora L. Spar, Julia Comeau and Amram Migdal

Keywords: Battery Industry; United States

28 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Novo Nordisk

when local high schoolers did a project on the topic and named the relationships Industrial Symbiosis, that they really noted just how unusual this resource ecosystem was. A map highlighting the movement of water (Vand, in blue), View Details

Earl B. Dickerson

In his first few years as CEO, Dickerson devoted his energies to changing the policy focus from industrial to ordinary life polices and to increasing the quality and number of the company’s agents. Dickerson... View Details

Keywords: Finance

28 Mar 2018
News

Fueling the Future

recruiter and marketing director to head of innovation. Today, she runs Fueled for Growth, an innovation consulting company, which assists financial firms with due diligence in the energy and industrials... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 2018
News

Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term

much of her career focusing on how organizations respond to large-scale technological shifts, most recently in regard to energy and the environment. “Sustainable Business Strategy is designed to empower decision makers on the ground to be... View Details

November 2023 (Revised November 2024)
Case

Decarbonizing Shipping at A.P. Møller-Maersk (A)

By: Willy Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter

Container shipping was responsible for moving more than 80% of globally traded goods, and almost 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions. A.P. Møller-Maersk, one of the top three container lines, conducted an extensive lifecycle assessment (LCA) of alternative fuels,... View Details

Keywords: Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Energy Sources; Environmental Sustainability; Ship Transportation; Shipping Industry

Career Coach

Imam Akinlade

Imam wants to help students think critically about their career paths and what really maters most to them, Having gained significant experience in consulting, impact investing and clean energy before HBS; and exploring several career... View Details

11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

free trade in some industries or regions lead to requests for protection through trade barriers. Politicians pick up on those requests, and we witness periodic trade spats. The Catfish War is a famous example pitting the Mississippi... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Energy; Energy; Energy; Energy; Energy; Energy; Energy; Energy; Energy

01 Mar 2008
News

Highly Energetic

The fourth annual Energy Symposium at HBS in October brought together industry executives, venture capitalists, and consultants to discuss the sector’s challenges and opportunities. Winds of change are... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

Contest. BioMine uses existing scaled-up mining industry technologies to capture value from the 40 million tons of "e-waste" that is landfilled or incinerated annually around the world. (Watch Bradoo explain the concept behind BioMine.)... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Article

Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S. Navy

By: Forest Reinhardt and Michael W. Toffel

The U.S. Navy operates on the front lines of climate change. It manages tens of billions of dollars in assets on every continent and on every ocean, which take many years to design and build and then have decades of useful life. This means that it needs to understand... View Details

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July 2010 (Revised March 2015)
Teaching Note

1366 Technologies

By: Ramana Nanda and Joseph B. Lassiter III

Teaching Note for 810005. View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Production; Supply and Industry; Corporate Strategy; Capital; Manufacturing Industry

May 2024
Case

Shell's Balancing Act: Resource Allocation and the Green Transition

By: David Collis and Haisley Wert

In mid-2023, amid pressure from climate change activists, shareholder activists, and confronting enormous uncertainty about the future demand for and price of fossil fuels, new Shell CEO Wael Sawan (Harvard MBA 2003) announced a change in strategy for the U.K. oil... View Details

Keywords: Portfolio Analysis; Climate; Oil; Oil And Gas; Oil Companies; Renewables; Petroleum; Investor Demand; Investors; Corporate Strategy; Resource Allocation; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Energy Industry; United Kingdom

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

pumps they sell annually, but Grundfos is building the knowledge and infrastructure that will be necessary to scale. In Kalundborg, we saw circularity applied to energy as NGO Kalundborg Symbiosis presented Kalundborg Bioenergy’s... View Details

31 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

outside of our direct industry to address it. Paul McDonald, Senior Director, Opower Product Strategy & Marketing at Oracle (How OPower Uses Behavioral Science & AI to Reduce Energy Demand): “There's... View Details

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details

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Nicolas Weninger | MBA

challenges I foresee for societies worldwide is the question of green energy generation and distribution. The other is human spaceflight and our continued exploration of the unknown. Formative experience at the intersection of technology... View Details

May 2019
Case

Elon Musk's Big Bets Update, 2019

By: David B. Yoffie and Daniel Fisher

This short case provides an update to Elon Musk's strategy and tactical moves with Tesla, Solar City, and SpaceX from 2016-2019. View Details