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- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
Eric Giler by Francis Storrs Standing on the stage of TEDGlobal in Oxford, England, WiTricity CEO Eric Giler (MBA 1982) is nervous. It's July 2009, and he's about to show how his company's technology can beam electricity through the air... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Wind Shift
the island of Vinalhaven, Maine. The $15 million project is the largest community-owned wind facility on the East Coast. Standing nearly 400 feet tall, the structures will fill the electricity needs of the several thousand year-round and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries (The Free Press) is the fourth major book by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., the School's Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus. It is the heretofore untold... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Noted & Quoted
"I was always a windup toy for achievement." —Barry Rowan (MBA 1983), on taking a "purposeful pause" in his career before moving to Cool Planet Energy Systems. (CFO.com, December 19, 2012) View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Rust Belt Turns ‘Sun Belt’ with Solar
Abound’s CEO in 2010. Prior to joining Polaris in 1998 (he became CEO a year later), Tiller had worked at GE for fifteen years, including service as general manager of GE Silicones. He’s confident that Abound can compete with anyone in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
(Photo courtesy of KDC Solar) Launched in 2011, QE solar is an operations and maintenance company focused on servicing large-scale, commercial solar energy structures—the kind typically owned by large utility companies. The company is based in New Jersey, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Lighting It Up
Last December, David Wilkins (MBA 1990) admired the brilliant skyline of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, with its color-changing buildings and holiday lighting. “I love when nighttime comes,” the former investment banker told the Rocky Mountain News (December 24, 2004).... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
What Happened to Leadership?
IMMELT: A prescription to fix failures at the top. Sgt. Vincent Fusco/Usma For a speech on “Reviving American Leadership,” General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82) chose a discerning audience: the corps of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
carbon emissions. What percent of a nation’s electricity has to come from non-fossil fuels before electric cars lead to a net reduction in carbon emissions? —Mark Caron (MBA 1993) KORTENHORST and KORMI:... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Energy Efficiency as a Common Purpose
Duane Highley (AMP 177, 2009) is president and CEO for the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation. In this interview, he explains how the organization is united behind a common purpose—the concept of energy efficiency as a benefit to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
global CO2 emissions. They also remain the hubs and engines for the world’s economic, political, cultural, and social development. Fortunately, because of their legislative power to regulate buildings, density, energy use, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
HBS alumnus Philip Rettger on partnering with the Harvard endowment
Philip Rettger (MBA 1985) has focused his career on renewable and sustainable energy. "While none of us knows what the future will offer for investment returns, I am pleased that the charitable remainder trust that I established several years ago is being invested by... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
fuels such as oil and gas, but also with wind and solar, whose costs have plummeted over the past decade. Competing power sources are often compared using levelized cost of energy, or LCOE, which is calculated by dividing the lifetime... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
renewables (wind and solar), nuclear power, battery storage, electric vehicles, and plant-based proteins (“fake meat”). Adaptation technologies, like flood defense and asset protection, also offer potential investment opportunities.... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, sold $315.6 billion worth of goods in 2006. With its single-minded focus on “EDLP” (everyday low prices) and the power to make or break suppliers, a partnership with Wal-Mart is either the Holy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
A Wonderful Whirl
Mounted atop the Soldiers Field Park Garage, two wind turbines — 40-foot towers with 11.5-foot blades — represent Harvard’s biggest wind-energy project to date. Weighing more than 1,000 pounds each, the turbines are expected to supply 5 to 10 percent of the seven-story... View Details
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- 10 Feb 2016
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
Barbara Nick (AMP 165, 2003) has spent more than 30 years in the gas and electric industry, honing her skills to become an award-winning leader in business and in her community. She knew her success was due in part to other leaders—the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
from fossil fuels to alternative sources of energy. We will need to finance research in technology innovation and biotechnology, including stem cell research. We will need to generate most of our electricity... View Details
Keywords: Byron Wien; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution