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Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India By: Shawn Cole , Grady Killeen, Tomoko Harigaya and Aparna Krishna This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil... View Details
- June 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Background Note
An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance--2009 Update
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
Provides an introduction to the fields of project finance and infrastructure finance and gives a statistical overview of project-financed investments over the years from 2005 to 2009. Examples of project-financed investments include the $1.4 billion Mozal aluminum... View Details
Esty, Benjamin C., and Aldo Sesia. "An Overview of Project Finance and Infrastructure Finance--2009 Update." Harvard Business School Background Note 210-061, June 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
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South Asia - Global
experiences and develop a deeper understanding about climate change and its impact in India. Archive See more News & Highlights New Research on the Region 2025 Working Paper Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural... View Details
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Podcast - Business & Environment
outlook on the future of AI in climate science and offers career advice for those interested in this field. Using AI and Satellite Data to Transform Agriculture: A Conversation with Alyssa Whitcraft 18 DEC 2024 | Climate Rising Dr. Alyssa... View Details
- 2025
- Working Paper
Quality-Adjusted-Power: How to Decide Where to Site Renewables
By: Vishrut Rana, Christian Kaps and Serguei Netessine
Problem definition: Investments in renewable energy have surged worldwide in recent years, with over $2 trillion spent globally on clean energy. This surge was driven by growing policy support, concerns about energy security, and, most importantly, the cost... View Details
Keywords: Wind Power; Electricity Distribution; Renewable Energy; Profit; Investment Return; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Geographic Location; Revenue; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry
Rana, Vishrut, Christian Kaps, and Serguei Netessine. "When Where Watt: Harnessing the Value of Time and Location for Renewable Electricity Generation." Working Paper, January 2025.
Fiscal Development Under Sovereign and Colonial Rule
Dominant theories of state formation and nation-building lean heavily on the classic European tale of the simultaneous development of a ‘fiscal state’ and a ‘nation state’. However, this Euro-centered narrative does not factor in that more than two-thirds of the... View Details
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Faculty & Research - Business & Environment
contentious... 2025 Working Paper Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote Agricultural Technology Adoption: Evidence from Smallholder Farms in India By: Shawn Cole , Grady Killeen, Tomoko Harigaya and Aparna Krishna This paper... View Details
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
2007) Fellowship The Joseph P. Landon Fellowship was established with a gift from Joseph Landon (MBA 2007) in honor of his 10th Reunion. Landon, who has a lifelong passion for space exploration and studying engineering, began his career designing View Details
- 30 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most
office. Wu suspects some companies may even open satellite offices in an effort to shorten workers’ commutes. Wu doesn’t have a long commute himself; he lives in Cambridge, close enough to either walk or ride an electric scooter to HBS.... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
1 percent of GDP on R&D, a ratio that has, in fact, been declining over time. In contrast, the US allocates 2.5 percent of GDP to R&D.” Gazette: How is that? Khanna: With SpaceX, Musk has been experimenting with launching View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Role Model
student in high school, she graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering before moving on to MIT for a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics and a position at Orbital Sciences Corporation, where she served as senior systems engineer for the company’s... View Details
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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
exceeding complex patients. Not every hospital needs a heart transplant program, or even cardiac surgery, yet that is what has happened in US health care expansion today. Rational geographic expansion should occur through a hub-and-spoke model of View Details
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Profiles - MBA
building my own startup in satellite communication and control systems. Find Grace on LinkedIn . BIOENGINEERING (SB), SECONDARY IN GLOBAL HEALTH & HEALTH POLICY KIRKLAND 2022 Cohort 3 Esther Koh "Bridging experiments in the lab with... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
followed by a phenomenal increase in air traffic. The development of telex was a considerable advance over telephones in facilitating international communications and coordinating multinational business. In 1965 the first satellite for... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Favorite We provide continuous, high-bandwidth access to satellite data through a software-enabled optical communications module and data transfer service, connecting individual satellites in any orbit to a... View Details
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Alumnae Circles - Alumni
Alexandria and Arlington, VA; Bethesda, College Park, MD Don't see your region listed? Some Circles are operating in smaller satellite regions. Expanding Alumnae Circles to a new region requires strong, motivated volunteer leaders and... View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
SOSV SOSV is an early-stage, deep-tech venture capital firm that is one of the most active firms in the world in climate tech investment. Brandon's role prior to HBS was a Founding engineer of Wafer, a satellite communications startup.... View Details
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Research - Health Care
Faculty & Research Research November 2024 Teaching Material Martine Rothblatt and United Therapeutics: A Series of Implausible Dreams By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 323-039. In 1990, satellite expert... View Details
- 21 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics
policy to work on a side interest, a machine learning tool to help small businesses identify promising business opportunities. “Google has useful information on foot-traffic patterns, plus satellite imagery and other data that can help... View Details