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February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
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UBS and Climate Change--Warming Up to Global Action?

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Forest L. Reinhardt and Elizabeth Raabe

Marco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied the chart on his desk. It showed the public commitment of major financial institutions to help mitigate global warming. Evidently, UBS lagged behind its competitors. The graph was part of a... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Cost vs Benefits; Law; Financial Institutions; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Financial Services Industry

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2023
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The Economic and Environmental Effects of Making Electricity Infrastructure Excludable

By: Husnain Fateh Ahmad, Ayesha Ali, Robyn C. Meeks, Zhenxuan Wang and Javed Younas

Electricity theft occurs when individuals cannot be excluded from accessing services. We study the impacts of an infrastructure upgrade in Karachi, Pakistan -- converting bare distribution wires to aerial bundled cables (ABCs) -- that was intended to prevent illegal... View Details

Keywords: Infrastructure; Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Utilities Industry; Pakistan

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2009
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The North America Environmental Fund (NAEF)

By: Roberto Charvel, Fernando Fabre and T. Putimahtama

NAEF was the first VC fund created in Latin America. It was also the first fund to focus on green technologies. The fund and its managers confronted several issues regarding the under-developed governance and cultural structures required for succesful VC investments. View Details

Keywords: Clean Tech; Emerging Market; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Governance; Technology; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Latin America; North and Central America

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05 Feb 2019
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Protecting the Power Grid

chairman and president; sectionmate Paul Schwarzbaum (MBA 1988) agreed to serve as a director. “We aim to protect industrialized societies against the long-term collapse of infrastructure through technical and regulatory solutions,” says... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; terrorism; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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Jeremy Burnham

side of the oil industry (refining, transportation, and distribution), Jeremy “wanted to see the bigger picture; to explore alternative energies and other industries” that would add greater reach to his... View Details

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Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change

cleantech). Includes ESG ratings. Industry/Market Research IBISWorld - covers a wide range of industries in the US, China, the UK and Australia. BCC - in-depth market research reports on many sectors within health... View Details

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Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 15 Jan 2025 Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners Ousmane Sacko Author MBA Students tag All Industries All Locations Student & Alumni Stories Summer Internships The summer between my... View Details

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

feasible or desirable to think about changing firms themselves. Can firms create shared value? Can industries regulate themselves? What are the responsibilities of managers? Does "purpose" matter? If academics chose to focus on... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2020
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3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)

are also well-positioned to help our clients weather this crisis and piece the economy back together. This is a moment for global banks like Citi to show the vital role we can play in growing an inclusive economy. I’m a believer in corporations putting their voice and... View Details

Keywords: April White; Photo by: Michael Bucher; banking; diversity; COVID-19; leadership; African American; career advice; Finance

January 2024 (Revised February 2024)
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TPG Rise Climate: Deploying 'Climate Capital'

By: Vikram S. Gandhi, David Allen, Sarah Mehta and Shannon Roche

This case is about TPG Rise Climate, a $7.3 billion climate impact fund launched in 2021 by alternative asset manager TPG. Climate investing is a complex, capital-intensive endeavor; entering it has forced TPG to think and act differently. Relative to other funds, Rise... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Environmental Management; Ownership; Science; Value; Asset Management; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry; California; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)

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Laura Arjona

impact of my contribution." Encouraged by friends working in the financial sector, Laura obtained a position at UBS Investment Banking after graduation, staying for two years in the energy group. "When I started, news was just... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout

The US automotive industry collapse was one of the most important business stories to come out of the 2008 financial crisis—and like so many events of that time, it was big on headlines but short on nuance. To address that shortfall,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Oct 1997
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Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices

by Assistant Professor Myra Hart. Working in self-selected teams, students may now spend up to a year on projects that explore organizational problem solving, industry or country analysis, or business plan development. A new field study... View Details

25 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Leaders Program

whether it’s national security or immigration or healthcare, all had climate implications and required climate considerations. So, for my next role, I joined the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and worked on a climate and View Details

March 1981
Case

Comet Energy, Inc. (C)

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Energy Industry

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December 1970 (Revised October 1980)
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Distrigas Corp.

By: James L. Heskett

Keywords: Energy Industry

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December 1988 (Revised December 1991)
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Compagnie Generale D'Electricite

By: W. Carl Kester and Richard P. Melnick

Keywords: Energy Industry

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April 1988 (Revised May 1992)
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Gaz de France

By: W. Carl Kester

The treasurer of Gaz de France is an aggressive, proactive manager of his company's liability structure, running one of the largest swap books of any non-financial corporation in the world. Currency futures, interbank forwards, and currency options are also frequently... View Details