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- August 2023 (Revised October 2024)
- Supplement
Plug Power (B)
By: Jonas Heese, Joseph Pacelli and James Barnett
The case is set in spring 2021, immediately after Plug Power made financial restatements dating back to 2018. The case describes the restatements, which revealed that Plug was reclassifying expense items to boost gross profits. View Details
Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Financial Reporting; Ethics; Profit; Management; Social Enterprise; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; United States; Europe
Heese, Jonas, Joseph Pacelli, and James Barnett. "Accounting Outages at Plug Power? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 124-018, August 2023. (Revised October 2024.)
- May 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Supplement
'GEnron'? Markopolos versus General Electric (B)
By: Jonas Heese and David Lane
Supplement to the (A) case that offers an assessment of the August 2019 Markopolos report on General Electric. View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Communication; Energy; Financial Condition; Insurance; Performance; Planning; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Value; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry
Heese, Jonas, and David Lane. "'GEnron'? Markopolos versus General Electric (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 121-033, May 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- Career Coach
Grace Keliher
Grace is passionate about climate and sustainability, social impact, and DEI. She understands how important it is to find inclusion and belonging in the workplace in addition to purpose and fulfillment. She has spent her career in the View Details
- 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
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
Inventions at Georgia Tech’s ATDC incubator, with a mission to commercialize a set of scientific breakthroughs for improving silicon photovoltaics. Through his Freeing Energy Project, Nussey is writing a book to help people outside the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- September 1998 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Power Across Latin America: Endesa de Chile
Endesa, a privatized Chilean electricity generator, has made significant investments in the privatization of Argentina's electricity sector and is now contemplating an even larger privatization opportunity in Peru. In deciding how much to bid in Peru, Endesa must... View Details
Keywords: Expansion; Energy Generation; Privatization; Government and Politics; Utilities Industry; Peru; Chile
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Patricio del Sol. "Power Across Latin America: Endesa de Chile." Harvard Business School Case 799-015, September 1998. (Revised July 2009.)
Thomas B. Pickens
Starting his career with only a small drilling, exploration and production firm, Pickens developed a knack for acquiring oil-rich properties. His luck afforded him the wealth he used to begin his famous string of attempted hostile takeovers of other oil View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- February 2011
- Supplement
Carbon Trading Simulation: Black Cement Inc.
By: Peter A. Coles
This simulation presents students the opportunity to experience firsthand the economics of carbon markets and permit trading. Each student has private role information about a company he or she manages. The student must make decisions about pollution-reducing... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Pollutants; Investment; Price; Profit; Agreements and Arrangements; Decisions; Service Industry; Service Industry
Coles, Peter A. "Carbon Trading Simulation: Black Cement Inc." Harvard Business School Supplement 911-053, February 2011.
- Web
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
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
change. Energy Professor Michael Porter and BCG have partnered on research into how the country can maximize the opportunity presented by America’s unconventional oil and gas resources in a responsible way. In March, an HBS View Details
- March 2025
- Case
Hurtigruten: Sea Zero
By: Christian Kaps and Michael W. Toffel
Hurtigruten was deciding whether the next ship they built should be fully electric. But such a vessel's battery, the size of electric cars, needed to be charged on the ship's multi-day voyage along the Norwegian coast. Before making such a $250 million investment, the... View Details
Keywords: Energy Sources; Alternative Energy; Ship Transportation; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Management; Green Technology; Investment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Shipping Industry; Norway; Europe
Kaps, Christian, and Michael W. Toffel. "Hurtigruten: Sea Zero." Harvard Business School Case 625-100, March 2025.
- 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
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Marsha Faradina
Marsha has 8 years of experience in the energy industry (oil & gas/power generation) and was in consumer goods for her first job. She switched to consulting and moved from Asia to the US. Therefore, she... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Innovation as Antidote
ails the industry ("Curing Health Care"), including Halle Tecco's (MBA 2011) focus on incubating new ideas and Gregory Stock's (MBA 1987) push to make medicine more personalized. WILLIAMS The energy behind... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
durations, and dispatch it as electricity on demand. Cal's role prior to HBS was an Aerospace Industry Application Engineer at Mathworks. Aditya Desai (MBA 2022, Section J), Summer Internship: MBA Summer Intern at Natron View Details
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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment
The Climate Symposium is an annual conference organized by the Energy & Environment, Food & Agriculture, and Sustainability Clubs. This is one of the largest student-run conferences on the HBS campus, demonstrating the growing urgency and... View Details
- 04 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Advice from a Career Switcher: The Value of Informational Conversations with Alumni
thinking about, and what are the economics?” Without previous experience related to climate change or the environment, Adam was “a career-switcher coming in from scratch; I didn’t know the industry terminology or how the View Details
Joseph N. Pew
Having begun investing in oil while working in real estate, Pew eventually entered the industry full time, organizing several smaller entities into what became the Sun Oil Company. An innovator himself, Pew developed and patented the... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
Frank Phillips
With his brother Lee, Frank Phillips built Phillips Petroleum into a diversified oil company whose businesses encompassed not only crude oil drilling, but also the operation of consumer filling stations and the production of such innovative oil View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
International. Saturday's discussion panels examined four main themes: restructuring and economic reforms, humancapital development, industry adaptation in Asia, and multinational corporations and entrepreneurship. A plenary panel on... View Details