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- May 2018 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
Argentina Power—Don't Cry for Me Argentina
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
In 2016, Bruce Wayne, Managing Director of Energy Finance Corporation (“EFC”), was refining the Investment/Credit Committee materials for the development of up to 10 power generating plants in Argentina. As a subsidiary of the much larger International Conglomerate... View Details
Keywords: Cross Border; Energy Markets; Infrastructure Finance; Infrastructure Development; Business Subsidiaries; Business Cycles; Macroeconomics; Energy Generation; International Finance; Project Finance; Government and Politics; Demand and Consumers; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; Argentina; Latin America
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Sayiddah Fatima McCree. "Argentina Power—Don't Cry for Me Argentina." Harvard Business School Case 218-041, May 2018. (Revised October 2018.)
- Web
Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
future of insurance markets? We provide the first estimates of household willingness to pay for homeowners insurance and the drivers of household insurance demand elasticities by exploiting quasi-exogenous regulatory shocks to insurance pricing. We View Details
- Web
HBS - Key Metrics
electricity from the grid, electricity from our solar panels (solar renewable energy credits [SRECs], which represent the environmental benefit, are sold to the Harvard Utility... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
“and doing so will leave our children’s generation much better off. If we don’t get it done, the problems our cities face today will become far worse.” Powering Up and Out As director of US Strategy for National Grid, Judith Judson (MBA 2000) designs strategy for a... View Details
- Web
Events - Business History
Tarun Khanna, the conference focused on the intersection of oral history, business, and the Global South, offering a unique space for interdisciplinary discussions. The goal was to bring together a community of scholars who have utilized... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Miles Barr Erdin Beshimov Jutta Friedrichs Nathan Trujillo Business Track Runner-Up Ubiquitous Energy distributes electricity to “off-grid” communities worldwide via low-cost paper solar panels that are easy to use and can be... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
and his cofounders saw an opportunity to create a new kind of energy company—a hybrid of a traditional utility and a financial entity. Guzman Energy, a subsidiary of Guzman & Company, would not be weighed down by the same legacy... View Details
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
many companies is that widespread salary cuts may not be workable because of existing employee agreements. Furloughs A furlough is a mandated unpaid leave of absence, utilized by private (such as General Motors during the 2019 United Auto... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- Web
Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
young boy for dismantling a phonograph, from then on "nothing or nobody could stop me from carrying through the execution of an experiment." 6 As a child, he was drawn to the beauty and utility of chemistry and optics. Kaleidoscopes and... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
an electric utility was actually looking forward to deregulation as a means of unfreezing a tradition-bound monopoly that was not adequately preparing for a more competitive future. But deregulation came... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
Climate Stories Episode #15 – Hilton Augustine III - Finding and Funding Climate Technology Solutions Episode 15 of Climate Stories focuses on recent HBS alumnus, Hilton Augustine III. A veteran of consulting, electric vehicle... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
lower emissions) is becoming the focus of operators. Consumers are shifting their product preferences and investors are incorporating these in their asset allocations and specific investment decisions. There will be large changes in the View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
advantage of changes in wind direction. Knowing the economic loss from downtime for each turbine on a wind farm allowed GE to determine a better maintenance schedule for turbines, figuring out which should be fixed first, and utilizing... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Storage - Reshaping The Way We Do Electricity " with Serguei Netessine. Christian Kaps : Awarded Runner-Up in the 2023 POMS PITM Student Paper Competition from the College of Product Innovation and Technology Management College (PITM) of... View Details
Ira C. Copley
Copley revived his father’s utility corporation by marketing gas as a fuel instead of an illuminant. Copley went on to acquire other utility companies, which he merged in 1905 to form Western United Gas and... View Details
Keywords: Utilities & Energy
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
cofounders saw an opportunity to create a new kind of energy company—a hybrid of a traditional utility and a financial entity. Guzman Energy, a subsidiary of Guzman & Company, would not be weighed down by the same legacy investments in... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
his family and his small North Carolina town after a nuclear electromagnetic-pulse attack wipes out America’s electrical infrastructure. The book struck a chord with Popik (MBA 1988), who was a captain in the US Air Force before attending... View Details