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- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
that had begun to dominate the worldwide solar industry. While accelerated growth was attractive to 1366 and its current investors, the company believed that it would face considerable risks if it were to expose its intellectual property... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
investors and building shipment volume slowly, or 1366 could accelerate its market entry dramatically by partnering with the Asian manufacturers that had begun to dominate the worldwide solar industry. While accelerated growth was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
that were more responsible and sustainable as well as how these strategies have faced constraints, trade-offs, and challenges of legitimacy. The industries covered range from sustainable finance and solar energy to organic food and wine,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
Power Richard H.K. VietorHarvard Business School Case 710-013 Suntech, a Chinese manufacturer of photovoltaic cells and solar panels, is the third largest solar company in the world. About 90% of its sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
world trade system founders it's going to founder in food." Other options were also discussed: moving out of California and buying land in more politically, geographically, and economically friendly countries; planting less thirsty crops; and giving up farming... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
footprint,” Telkes must now confront the bigger decision of whether or not to invest in solar panels to generate electricity for her home. Although pre-disposed to pursue environmentally friendly alternatives, the project entailed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
products like the Kindle e-reader, high-end servers, solar panels, and the batteries that will power the next generation of automobiles. To rebuild the commons and restore its wealth-generating machine will require government and industry... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Case 510-037 Nanosolar is a start-up company in the clean tech sector. It expects to be one of the first manufacturers to produce thin-film solar panels using copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) technology. Although this technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
education sector. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315054-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-081 Solar Geoengineering On December 8, 2013, as Dr. David Keith was leaving the set of the Colbert Show, he... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
officials used its science capabilities to develop components for solar panels and are now working on materials for cars that make them safer and more efficient. "Dow is using its science background to address fundamental issues and... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
developed new product categories such as organic food and wind and solar energy, which explicitly focused on sustainability. Again this process has been traced back to the nineteenth century. With the rise in green consumerism and public... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
company has decided to pivot from operating biomass gasification plants towards developing solar microgrids in India and East Africa. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/Husk-Power/an/815023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
African municipalities can’t afford to waste money this way. Solar panels on the Garden City Mall, Nairobi, Kenya financed by CrossBoundary Energy. Credit: John Macomber Highly aspirational cities like Kigali, Rwanda, follow an explicit... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
costs. Silicon and wafer cutting technologies that were rendered surplus after the semiconductor industry slowed down during the last recession were picked up by a fast-growing solar energy industry.Q: What advice would you give would-be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Lauren Cochran were considering whether to invest an additional $1 million in PEG’s upcoming $5 million Series B round, at a $20 million pre-money valuation. PEG offered pay-as-you-go (PAYG) financing plans that allowed customers to make small payments via mobile money... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
SolarCity, a leading solar energy firm, creating what Musk called “a vertically integrated energy company.” These moves, representing billions of investment and extension into new industries, came at a time when Tesla was still losing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
ever been? Brian: Ehen people see the case, they'll see that “world-class” is in quotations. Why did you decide to do that? Bill: Because no one knows what it is. Everyone wants to be “world-class” (no one has yet gone for the entire View Details