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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
impact revolution will sweep through all industries from clean energy and telemedicine to fintech and edtech, he predicts. And with $7 trillion in venture capital and private equity available globally—far more than existed at the start of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
investing soared from under $10 billion in the mid-1990s to over $100 billion in 2000, before plunging back to earth after the tech bubble burst. Since then, annual venture investing has hovered in the range of $15 billion to $20 billion.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
attention has focused on clean energy and the climate crisis. In May, KPCB announced its second fund in green technology, bringing its total investment in green solutions to $1.2 billion. Doerr describes green View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
they’ve shown a willingness to think in new ways about energy and to consider longer-term strategies such as using immigration to support scientific and technical advances. But what’s needed with clean tech... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
"actively trained and encouraged and supported for being human.” A clean start or one built on one or more existing initiatives? Government regulation or industry self-regulation? A government agency led by a czar or some kind of... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 31 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
Nexus for the climate tech community Employees: Climate Voice for an employee climate activism group Internships and fellowships: Climate Energy Leaders for a clean energy summer fellowship, EDF’s Climate... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
Their answers suggest that clean power will take off over the next decade or so, but hydrocarbon fuels will remain dominant. The E & E Club teamed up with the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) to host the receptions—one in New... View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
awards relatively modest, they limit efforts to misdirect these funds. Unfortunately, the funding of clean tech innovation under the stimulus program has been characterized by a lack of clarity and... View Details
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
to employers in clean energy, transportation, and the trades.” Overall, they learned that: Trade schools and community development programs had tight budgets and not enough career placement staff. The trainers needed help managing their... View Details
- 20 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
refine your goals and priorities as they change. Get to know your professors outside the classroom. They want to get to know you, and many are very well connected in the sustainability space. Spend your summer working at a company in the View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
Preeminent leadership scholar Linda Hill, along with former Pixar tech wizard Greg Brandeau, MIT researcher Emily Truelove, and Being the Boss coauthor Kent Lineback, found among leaders a widely shared, and mistaken, assumption: that a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
percent with their newfound investor money, or sit back and tinker and refine further. That created a lively debate, particularly between guests in the tech sector and those representing more traditional industries.” This is the second... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
environment. Teresa Amabile Over the past decade, nothing has had a more profound impact on business management than information technology. Ten years ago, many of us in business, academia, and government were wondering where it was all going. The View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
2022, it was heralded as a landmark investment in the environment. “This bill is the biggest step forward on climate ever,” President Joe Biden said when he signed the legislation, which included $369 billion for efforts such as advancing View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders
their family after years spent working in house cleaning and other physically demanding jobs . He decided to stay in the US “I loved it here, this was home now,” he explained. So Westphal stayed on his own with a big year ahead –... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
simply rearranging their assets, and claiming to be more valuable. In both cases, “ultimately the numbers didn’t add up,” she notes. “Something has to happen to create value.” Moore is anxious for investors to recover from the bursting of the View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
as a clean and green country may have been the major constraint. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51580 Decision-Making by Precedent and the Founding of American Honda (1948–1974) By: Casadesus-Masanell,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel