Publications

Profile

Lisa Cousins

much bigger impact by sharing my energy and passion for the school with section mates and helping them understand why it is important to give to HBS. Each dollar can go so far in not only funding groundbreaking research and other... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Entertainment / Media

June 2011
Teaching Note

The Suzlon Edge (TN)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Teaching Note for 708051. View Details

Keywords: Price; Non-Renewable Energy; Investment; Problems and Challenges; Climate Change; Globalization; Renewable Energy; Inflation and Deflation; Production; Machinery and Machining; Family Ownership; Policy; Energy Industry

Web

Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024

Non-Binary / Gender Queer / Another Gender 0% < 1% — — — International Citizenship 35% 39% 38% 37% 33% US Race / Ethnicity American Indian /... View Details

October 2009 (Revised June 2010)
Case

1366 Technologies

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Ramana Nanda and David Kiron

Just months after declaring their intent to become a solar cell equipment supplier, van Mierlo and Sachs were again revisiting the issue of what the company should be. Becoming a successful solar cell manufacturer would potentially be much more lucrative than becoming... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Commercialization; Corporate Strategy; Green Technology Industry

Profile

Gerald Chertavian

counting 130 employees around the globe and $20 million in annual revenue. In 1999, Chertavian and his partners sold Conduit to i-Cube, and he was able to put all his energy into realizing his dream. Ready to return to the Boston area,... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government

Career Coach

Martha Tassinari

Martha (HBS '94) has been an executive coach and career counselor at HBS since 2007. She has helped thousands of MBA students, Alumni and Executive Education participants (GMP, PLD, OPM, New Path) identify and reach their career and professional development goals.... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Entertainment / Media; Entertainment / Media; Entertainment / Media; Entertainment / Media; Entertainment / Media; Entertainment / Media; Entertainment / Media; Entertainment / Media; Entertainment / Media; Entertainment / Media; Entertainment / Media; Entertainment / Media

01 Mar 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

products in the B2B marketplace, this book provides specific knowledge of use to people in the cleantech, energy efficiency, and resource efficiency space. It is packed with wisdom and resources for launching a successful View Details

January 2013 (Revised August 2013)
Case

First Solar: CFRA's Accounting Quality Concerns

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Ian McKown Cornell

The case relates to accounting quality analysis conducted by the leading research firm Center for Financial Research and Analysis (CFRA) on companies in the solar industry with a focus on First Solar Inc. In 2009, CFRA was concerned that First Solar, like much of the... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Accounting Quality; Financial Accounting; Financial Statement Analysis; Accounting Fraud; Accounting Red Flags; Accounting Scandal; Risk and Uncertainty; Quality; Earnings Management; Valuation; Crime and Corruption; Financial Statements; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry

Profile

Luc Sirois

lifelong idealism and drive to improve world. Sirois recalls his time at HBS as providing the spark necessary to direct his energies in the early days of the emerging digital superhighway. “Technology was enabling a new world. It didn’t... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government

July 2018 (Revised August 2018)
Case

Project Helios: Harvesting the Sun

By: Mark Egan and E. Scott Mayfield

Aware of the impact that modern society was having on the environment, Ashley Telkes had always tried to be cognizant of her own impact on the environment and to take reasonable steps to mitigate her own effects. Having already implemented a number of passive measures... View Details

Keywords: Renewable Energy; Personal Finance; Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability

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

October 2003 (Revised February 2004)
Case

Cape Wind

By: John T. Gourville and Kerry Herman

Cape Wind has proposed placing a 170-tower wind farm, with each tower more than 400-feet tall, in Nantucket Sound. Not surprisingly, public reaction is mixed. Some view the wind farm as clean, renewable energy. Others view it as an eyesore and a desecration of a valued... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Renewable Energy; Consumer Behavior; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Behavior; United States

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

electricity—enough to power approximately 150 households. The turbines are the spinning heart of the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project, an initiative undertaken by Verdant Power, the startup that Smith cofounded in 2000 to... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

March 2024
Case

Transforming a Region: Gothenburg’s path from Shipyards to E-Mobility

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Orjan Solvell

The case profiles the economic development of the Gothenburg region in Western Sweden, and the efforts of the regional economic development agency. During this period the region’s traditionally strong automotive cluster started to transform towards e-mobility... View Details

Keywords: Regional Economic Activity; Cluster; Economic Development; Economic Growth; Government and Politics; Transformation; Green Technology; Auto Industry; Sweden