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- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
purchase of electric vehicles (EVs). According to Kelly Blue Book, EV 2022 sales increased 65% versus 2021. I was particularly interested in the ChargerHelp! model with its focus on reskilling individuals, especially those from underrepresented communities, to... View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
projects like in-stream hydro, wind power, solar and bio-mass. CleanvilleJakob Blomqvist, MBA 2022CleanVille democratizes energy. We empower retail investors to access renewable energy and CleanTech projects. CleanVille is the one-stop... View Details
- October 2013 (Revised November 2016)
- Case
Carbon Engineering
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Sid Misra
Dr. David Keith, President of Carbon Engineering, a company based in Calgary, Alberta, is commercializing a technology to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. The company plans to market the captured CO2 to produce low carbon transportation fuels in... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Government Legislation; Technological Innovation; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Risk and Uncertainty; Research and Development; Transportation; Information Infrastructure; Energy; Forecasting and Prediction; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Transportation Industry; Utilities Industry; Technology Industry; Canada; United States; China; India
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and Sid Misra. "Carbon Engineering." Harvard Business School Case 814-040, October 2013. (Revised November 2016.)
- March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
H2 Green Steel: A Clean-Tech Triple Play?
By: Debora L. Spar, Gunnar Trumbull, Henry Tao and Julia Comeau
At the end of 2023, the Swedish startup H2 Green Steel was mid-way through construction on an integrated steel plant in Northern Sweden that would use abundant local hydro power to create Europe’s first commercial-scale green steel. Their goal was to help European... View Details
Keywords: Steel; Green Business; Green Technology; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Startups; Climate Change; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Renewable Energy; Steel Industry; Sweden
Spar, Debora L., Gunnar Trumbull, Henry Tao, and Julia Comeau. "H2 Green Steel: A Clean-Tech Triple Play?" Harvard Business School Case 324-101, March 2024. (Revised July 2024.)
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2008, which kickstarted the first wave of cleantech investing and accelerated companies with over $1 trillion in enterprise value today, including Tesla ($590 billion), Enphase ($40 billion),... View Details
- January 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA
By: Richard Vietor
Cape Wind is an extreme example of NIMBY--not in my backyard syndrome. This is the first offshore wind project planned for the United States, in Nantucket Sound, just south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Initially proposed six years ago, in 2001, the wind farm would be... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Projects; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Community Relations; Public Opinion; Power and Influence; Energy Industry; Massachusetts
Vietor, Richard. "Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA." Harvard Business School Case 708-022, January 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
history. This is 4x the clean energy investments ($90 billion) under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2008, which kickstarted the first wave of cleantech investing and accelerated companies with over $1 trillion in enterprise... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
change. JM: Primarily all of my focus for the last 10 or 15 years has been in climate and sustainability and the impact that that technology can have as it scales to meet the size of the problem that we're facing in climate change. DM: In other words, he's had a... View Details
- June 2011
- Teaching Note
The Suzlon Edge (TN)
Teaching Note for 708051. View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
HBS senior lecturer Jim Matheson, a cleantech investor; current HBS student Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023), a budding entrepreneur in the sector; Meghan Kenny (MBA 2019), the head of CarbonCapture Inc.’s Project Bison, the largest DAC effort... View Details
- March 2024 (Revised January 2025)
- Case
Hippo: Weathering the Storm of the Home Insurance Crisis
By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan
Rick McCathron, CEO of Hippo, considered how the firm’s underwriting model could account for the effects of climate change. Along with providing smart home packages, targeting risk-friendly customers, and using data-driven pricing, the Insurtech used technologically... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Underwriters; Big Data; Insurance Companies; Business Model Design; Weather Insurance; Business Model; Forecasting and Prediction; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Technological Innovation; Natural Environment; Natural Disasters; Weather; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Business Earnings; Insurance; Social Issues; Insurance Industry; United States; California
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
2008 financial crisis, and the ensuing valley in cleantech investment nearly wiped out the company. “It’s not like software. You need shipyards to bend and weld steel, and that takes time.” “It’s not like software. You need shipyards to... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
reflection I would give Dan, is that, you know, change happens slowly and then all at once. Right? So in some way, shape, or form, you know, cleantech investing has happened over decades. Not just, not just now. But I think what you see... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
process of raising a $200M Series C round to finance the ongoing development of its next-generation nuclear reactor. Though early in the fundraising process, Gilleland noted that this most recent conversation was similar to conversations with other interested View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne