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- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
contends that policy makers more often reacted to political motives and pressure from business interests, while couching their actions in green language. In fact, government activities such as electrification of rural America and large-scale investment in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
earthquake unleashed a tsunami that ravaged the Tohoku region of Honshu, the largest and most populous island in Japan. Some 16,000 people were killed, hundreds of thousands displaced, and 383,000 buildings damaged-including the Fukushima Daiichi View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
costs, fossil fuel prices, possible regulatory or other delays in constructing the reactors, and possible future restrictions on carbon dioxide. CEO Jim Rogers believes that nuclear power makes sense from a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and in 1968, his entry to NASA, which early on sent him to the University of Michigan for a doctorate in radiation physics. Even as he rose through the ranks at the space agency, Earls' scientific... View Details
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
develop 25 gigawatts of solar power by 2025. “It takes empathy to do this work, to work with different stakeholders and make sure they are heard. The work is very challenging, complicated and sometimes frustrating. But the tangible... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot... View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
need of a ride. Seventh sensers create communities--“gatelands” with borders--for which they serve as powerful gatekeepers. And they know how to design software that serves as a platform on which other things can be provided to those in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
workers, and the city—or private actors—has to invest in resource efficiency. So how can our water, fuel, and transit go further? By having multifamily housing, by having some kind of mass transit, by having a common water extraction and treatment regime, by having a... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
power in the region. An explanation, rather, lies in nationalism: in the degree to which these countries constructed and embraced their own concepts of national identity and allowed such concepts to influence economic policy. As Abdelal... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
factory owners to install sprinkler systems, established the New York City Fire Prevention Bureau, and expanded the powers of the fire commissioner The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 1912 Bread and Roses strike begun by immigrant women... View Details
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
McCarthy, an Officer Engineer on the USS Ohio, leads a department of 70 officers and sailors and is charged with the safe operations of a nuclear power plant and all pressure boundary systems on the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
brink of nuclear annihilation, and only a few people are aware of it. A riveting story of how two men’s lives intersect in the midst of an existential crisis, The Able Archers is told through the eyes of two key participants: a young... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
semiconductors. Its Shirakawa plant is located in Fukushima, close to the epicenter of the earthquake and near the site of the nuclear power plant troubles. That plant is responsible for 22% of the world's... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
Harbour Group invested in Babcock & Wilcox, an energy and construction company. Blue Harbour developed an investment thesis around Babcock & Wilcox spinning off its non-nuclear, coal-based energy segments and focused on being a defense and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
issues that Gaillot had come to stand for: the problem of homelessness, the spread of AIDS, the evils of nuclear testing, and the wisdom of married priests. In the first six weeks of 1996, Partenia registered 250,000 hits. The Vatican,... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
company he started has been in business less than 25 years. That's a relative blink of an eye compared with some of the enduring Fortune 500 powerhouses that can trace their roots back to the turn of the century - firms that helped make this the prosperous and View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
to arms. Innovation Through Fusion: Combining Innovative Ideas to Create High Impact Solutions by CJ Meadows (DBA 1996) De Gruyter Just as nuclear fusion produces massive energy by combining two nuclei, a fusion in business, technology,... View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
across the financial system if they failed (think Lehman). Financial institutions that pose such a threat are the financial equivalent of nuclear power plants, providing an important service in many cases... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
catastrophes like the BP oil spill or the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster) would be included directly in the prices of each of the various energy sources, not somehow shielded from the eyes of... View Details