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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
cities that are holistically improving their energy use to reduce their emissions and save money. Often these solutions involve submetering individualized utility measuring of city buildings, which allows for a closer monitoring of energy... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
“If people want to reduce carbon emissions, they must reduce their energy use.” — Paul Baier (MBA ’94) The residential sector is the single-largest end-use sector for energy, accounting for 25 percent of global demand. If every US home replaced one light bulb with the... 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
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
and electricity companies. The news headlines make the arrival of a new book on protecting foreign investment more prescient. Professor Louis T. Wells and coauthor Rafiq Ahmed recently published Making Foreign Investment Safe: Property... 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
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
that help customers measure energy expenditures. Schierenbeck supposed that electricity customers might be more apt to conserve energy if their utility bills reflected exactly how they were using that energy... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
District Heating in Denmark: How Fjernvarme Fyn fuels an integrated and sustainable future
Fyn can adjust their production to help stabilize utility pricing for their customers. For instance, if electricity prices are low, the company will produce heat and store it within their storage ponds for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
and utility companies like Pacific Gas & Electric agreeing to accelerate deployment of charging stations along the routes. At some point, says Rich, “people will want to be in the business of creating... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
The results showed that this first-ever electric vehicle (EV) to support the New England electric grid earned more than $4,200 by participating in a utility demand response... View Details
- 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
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, Acting Director of Global E-Mobility at the World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities In this episode of Climate Stories, we explore the progress that’s been made over the last two years in the adoption of... 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
Gerard Swope
Though GE was highly successful in the market for heavy electrical machinery and engineering systems, Swope was determined to diversify the company into “public” products. Swope steered GE towards smaller electronic appliances, giving the... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Rust Belt Turns ‘Sun Belt’ with Solar
Tiller: Rust Belt bet. Steve Sanchez/Indianapolis Star Other Newsmakers Bob Gannon (OPM 16, 1990) Diana ("Dido") Harding (MBA ’92) David Miller (MBA ’03) Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) Amos Schocken (MBA ’70) Mike Stone (MBA ’88) Bill Wyman (MBA ’65) Ammara Yaqub (MBA ’05)... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
energy and make a profit." "The challenge was to find ways to conserve energy and make a profit." Few industries would seem to be more at odds with resource conservation issues than the electric utility... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
saved money by saving energy or reducing waste. For example, IBM reduced its electricity consumption by 6.4 billion kilowatt-hours between 1990 and 2013, during which time it saved $513 million through energy conservation alone, according... 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
Keywords: 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
- 19 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures
by utilizing artificial intelligence to eliminate routine flaring, a key contributor to climate change. Scout - Nicholas Sehlinger (MBA 2024) - Scout is a climate management platform that helps companies measure, manage, and reduce their... 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