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  • August 2022 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

Iluméxico: For Every Family to Have Power

By: Brian Trelstad, Isa Oliveres and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago
In 2022, Manuel Wiechers, the CEO of Iluméxico, a for-profit social enterprise that provided off-grid solar energy services in rural Mexico, was finalizing his presentation for the company’s upcoming board meeting. In the 12 years since Wiechers had co-founded... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Energy; Energy Policy; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Business and Government Relations; Equity; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Energy Industry; Mexico; Latin America
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  • February 2015
  • Case

CLP: Powering Asia

By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and Dawn Lau
Richard Lancaster, taking over from Andrew Brandler, was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of CLP Holdings Ltd., one of the leading power companies in Asia, with operations in China, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, Australia, and India, and an energy portfolio spanning coal,... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Environmental Sustainability; Goals and Objectives; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Energy Industry; Asia; India
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  • 2017
  • Other Unpublished Work

Kicking Ash: Who (or What) Is Winning the War on Coal?

By: David F. Drake and Jeffrey York
Power generators throughout the U.S. have shed coal capacity at an unprecedented rate over the past few years. Multiple stakeholders have claimed credit - natural gas executives, policy makers, renewables advocates, and environmental NGOs. In this paper, we explore the... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 09 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

"A Balance Between Autonomy and Resources to Help Me Learn."

different function.” Prior to business school, Jon had fulfilled two roles in clean energy: one at a service provider to commercial energy users in the efficiency and demand response space,” and as an associate at an View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

& Kapoor, 2010; Iansiti & Levien, 2004; von Hippel, 1988). Ecosystems generally encompass numerous corporations, individuals, and communities that might be individually autonomous but related through their connection with an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Career Coach

Erika Osterling

Erika (HBS '09, ITESM '00) brings 20 years of experience as an operating leader and advisor. She has spent most of her career within Energy & Industrial, with additional roles in Consumer and Retail. Erika's 12+ year career at GE... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy; Energy; Energy; Energy; Energy

    Christina R. Wing

    Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

    • 02 Aug 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

    A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
    • March 2022
    • Article

    Strategic State Capacity: How States Counter Opposition to Climate Policy

    By: Jonas Meckling and Jonas Nahm
    When can states implement policies against the opposition from powerful interest groups? Research on state capacity has examined bureaucratic sources of capacity, leaving unexplained why countries with similar levels of bureaucratic capacity vary in goal attainment. We... View Details
    Keywords: Power and Influence; Policy; Environmental Regulation
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    • March 2002 (Revised July 2004)
    • Case

    RWE and the Proposal for a German Electricity Regulator

    In April 2001, Dietmar Kuhnt, CEO of the German energy giant RWE, had to make a decision that would affect his company's future. Profits in the electricity sector depended heavily on regulatory rules that influenced industry structure and pricing. RWE had emerged... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Generation; Governance Compliance; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Germany
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    • December 1996 (Revised December 1997)
    • Case

    NAPOCOR Privatization: Power in the Philippines

    In the summer of 1993, brownouts reached 10 hours a day in Metro Manila, the center of the Philippine economy. Solving the electricity crisis was central to recently elected President Fidel Ramos's plan to transform the Philippines from the "sick man of Asia" to the... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Generation; Privatization; Energy Industry; Philippines
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    • Profile

    Tyler Todd

    HBS classroom experience is in the lessons on general management (how to make complex personnel or “gray-area” decisions). Additionally, I wanted to come to HBS to learn from my classmate’s diverse experiences and perspectives. HBS... View Details
    Keywords: Energy / Extractive Minerals; Energy / Extractive Minerals; Energy / Extractive Minerals; Energy / Extractive Minerals
    • 04 Dec 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Local Industrial Conditions and Entrepreneurship: How Much of the Spatial Distribution Can We Explain?

    Keywords: by Edward L. Glaeser & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing
    • December 2018 (Revised January 2020)
    • Case

    Husk Power: Scaling the Venture

    By: Benjamin N. Roth, Joseph B. Lassiter III and Natalia Rigol
    In January 2018, Manoj Sinha—founder and CEO of Husk Power—was contemplating raising $20 million to scale operations for a second time. From 2007 through 2013, Husk built 80 biomass waste plants that provided electricity to 250,000 villagers and shop owners spread... View Details
    Keywords: Scaling; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Growth and Development Strategy; Energy Industry; India
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    • 07 Jul 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

    them from hard choices by a flight to abstractions. In Enron's case, its stated purpose—at first, to be the world's best energy company, and later to be the world's best corporation—was too general to permit... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Energy
    • 13 Dec 2018
    • Blog Post

    Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment

    student clubs—the Energy and Environment club and the Food, Agriculture and Water club—to co-host various speakers on campus, career treks across the country, and receptions for students and alumni, just to name a few. We strive to... View Details
    • September 2006 (Revised November 2008)
    • Case

    Supergrid

    By: Richard H.K. Vietor
    Supergrid is a mammoth wind-power development scheme for Europe, recently proposed by Airtricity. This firm, founded in 1997, is a fast-growing power-development company focused on wind. Already having built about 600 megawatts of wind turbines in Scotland and Ireland,... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Performance Capacity; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Industry; Europe; United States
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    • May 2009 (Revised June 2009)
    • Case

    Areva

    By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
    Areva, the world's market leader in civilian nuclear power, was positioned to take advantage of the resurgence of nuclear power. However, three issues clouded the positive outlook: (1) a 1.7 billion euro loss on the construction of the first next generation nuclear... View Details
    Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Financial Statements; Energy Generation; Cash Flow; Investment; Energy Industry; Europe
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      Frank Nagle

      Frank Nagle is an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them - especially... View Details

      • March 2002 (Revised July 2004)
      • Case

      Price of Light, The: Privatization, Regulation and Valuation in Brazil

      Asks students to produce a valuation for Rio Light, a Brazilian power company that is state owned and to be sold in March 1996. If successful, the privatization would bring in over $2 billion to the Brazilian treasury. But success was far from assured. Members of the... View Details
      Keywords: Valuation; Energy Generation; Privatization; Corporate Governance; Energy Industry; Brazil
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