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Class Profile | MBA

/ E-Commerce 9% Financial Services 10% Health Care / Biotech 8% Manufacturing / Industrial / Energy 9% Media / Entertainment / Travel 4% Military 5% Nonprofit / Government / Education 6% Services 2%... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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as by the innovative technology that makes them possible. Companies must learn to build and foster these relationship networks because they engender speedy and seamless interaction, encourage creativity and collaboration, and release the View Details

Keywords: books; research; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship

Rock 100: The Summit The HBS Rock 100 is a dynamic and highly interactive bi-annual event for our rising alumni entrepreneurs. Catch a glimpse of the energy and excitement of the inaugural Summit in 2014 here. Rock 100: The Summit Video... View Details

01 Jan 2006
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Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978

energy in the next few years training the people behind me so that they will be ready to take the helm of this organization." Moore was once asked by a young intern at Time whether she decided to go into the "business side" of the View Details

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development

across industries and directly managed hundreds of employees who have grown their careers under her leadership. As part of her role, Fitzpatrick also regularly provides support to recruiting partners as they seek to recruit, hire, and... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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By: Gunnar Trumbull

My research focuses on how firms and governments interact to support decarbonization. How do firms approach climate change from a strategic perspective? How can government policies support and accellerate those efforts in ways that boost national competitiveness? View Details

Keywords: Decarbonization; Strategy And Leadership; Climate Change; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Europe; China; India; Brazil

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

where you stand. You also need to prevent competitors from imitating your methods. A second strategy is to up the ante on a competitive level within your industry by raising your own costs in order to provide an environmental good, but... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System

energies toward. This year you’ll be co-president of the Food, Agriculture, and Water Club. What motivated you to pursue this role? What goals do you have as co-president? I think to the broader HBS population, careers today in food and... View Details

December 2024
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Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change (B)

By: George Serafeim, Debora L. Spar, Peter Tufano, Hugo Etchegoyhen and Emilie Billaud

The (B) case explores Northvolt’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on November 21, 2024, highlighting the company’s struggles to scale operations amid a global EV market slowdown and internal production challenges. While the (A) case detailed Northvolt’s ambitious... View Details

Keywords: Batteries; Electric Vehicles; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Energy; Green Technology; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Technological Innovation; Risk Management; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Production; Growth and Development Strategy; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Europe; Sweden

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02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

genome, Goldberg has focused his most recent efforts on explaining the impact of this revolutionary discovery on the agribusiness system. "All industries that deal with living things or organic compounds will have a common language... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

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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08 May 2025
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Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)

constantly searching for ways to optimize how our teams collaborated to solve problems. On weekends, I’d bring home ideas and think about whether they could be applied more broadly across different organizations. As I built conviction that this was a space I wanted to... View Details

01 Jan 2006
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Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

Chairman, Agency for Science, Technology & Research Former Chairman, Singapore Economic Development Board Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION University of Toronto, 1970 BASc., Industrial Engineering... View Details

March 1981
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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