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  • 09 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

Both impact investing and traditional philanthropy are on the rise after the decade-long economic boom following the Great Recession. But when does an impact investment make a bigger difference than a grant? The question is far more complicated than simply evaluating... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

sellers can be highly mobile, although subject to licensure by states. Therefore, you want a national (or international) pool of sellers, and you want it to be as large as possible as soon as possible. —Roger Cole (MBA 1985) While this is an online platform,... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Once in a Lifetime Opportunities In 2011, at 26 years of age, Kasia Stochniol (MBA 2014) packed her bags and moved to Nairobi, Kenya. After previous professional experience as a consultant, she joined the early team at M-KOPA, a social enterprise that today is bringing... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Losing Our Competitive Edge

Business Review, how the United States has lost or is in the process of losing the ability to manufacture many of the cutting-edge products it invented. These include the batteries that power electric and hybrid cars, light-emitting... View Details
Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Manufacturing
  • 17 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

highly local. This means that industrial commons can have a local character as well. As a result, companies located in some places have advantages over others by virtue of their access to the appropriate set of workers, engineers, managerial talent, suppliers, and... View Details
Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing
  • 10 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

The ResourceAyanda Heita, MBA 2023The Resource aggregates and curates the best secondhand fashion online. Our vision is to eliminate fashion waste. Clean Energy, Buildings, & Transportation Contestants AGAPEGraeme Johnson, MBA 1995 Armenian Gas and View Details
  • 03 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss

there are places in the world now where it makes sense to shut down a perfectly fine fossil plant and replace it with a solar farm because you save money on the fuel itself. That said, a decarbonizing electricity system will need other... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey

focus. Before long his first novel, Heartlight, the story of an astrophysicist and his granddaughter who try to save the solar system, was published to glowing notices, including this encomium from author Madeleine L'Engle: "This is one... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Three Profs Win McKinsey Award

lost not only its ability to develop and manufacture high-tech products like televisions, memory chips, and laptops, but also the expertise to produce emerging “hot products” such as the Kindle e-reader, high-end servers, solar panels,... View Details
Keywords: Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Bright Future for Green Business

panelists were collectively bullish on solar energy, electric drive technology that powers hybrid and electric cars, and biofuels (including ethanol). By contrast, they were cautiously optimistic about clean... View Details
Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Utilities
  • 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
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

electric systems—used in remote power and emerging grid-connected markets. The PV modules produced by Evergreen Solar incorporate proprietary crystalline silicon technology known as String Ribbon. In 1996,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

paper estimates that the electrical efficiency of computation has doubled roughly every year and a half for more than six decades, outpacing Moore's law. The paper shows also that the costs of wind and solar View Details
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities
  • 08 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire way to strengthen the economy, improve society, and provide endless opportunities for entrepreneurs. Big opportunities. But modernization of the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities
  • 28 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 28

the return predictability. In addition, we find that sell-side analysts are subject to these same information processing constraints, as their forecast revisions of easy-to-analyze firms predict their future revisions of more complicated firms. The Growing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2017
  • Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

bridges, water, power and more? It’s not because they don’t aspire to. It’s because they lack the money and the expertise (in African cities) or because they can’t get to political consensus (in the United States)—or because there are... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction
  • 19 Jun 2014
  • News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

calling for using city investments in energy efficiency to generate savings that would be reinvested in solar power. Inspired by their success, Dawe took an 80 percent pay cut and moved to Colorado to work on green-power initiatives... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Savings and Loam

finding brands in every aisle that align with their values. An entire generation of these consumers expects their purchasing power to be deployed as a force for good, whether that means supporting humane working conditions or social or... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 06 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities

bathrooms for men, women, children, and transgender individuals. It also features a laundromat and a drinking water station. Powered largely by solar energy, the facility includes a water treatment plant and... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

cameras are almost expendable devices, offering much less quality but good enough to be incorporated into cell phones and PDAs reaching mass markets. Solar cells met limited success as alternative energy sources to the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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