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Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India

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  • January 2023 (Revised December 2023)
  • Case

OhmConnect: Energizing the Future

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Jennifer Fonstad and Nicole Tempest Keller
Founded in 2013, OhmConnect was a free consumer web app that alerted customers about peak hours of electricity demand, and paid them to lower their energy use at home during these periods. The company sold the aggregated reductions generated by thousands of households... View Details
Keywords: App Development; Renewable Energy; Electricity Usage; Regulations; VC; Technology; Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC); Scalability; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business Model; Venture Capital; Energy Industry; United States; California; Texas; Europe
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  • 24 Jul 2018
  • Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

they feel a lack of “agency,” a sense that only the highest rank of management can effect positive social change from within a business. Ironically, an increasing number of C-suite executives, including former Starbucks CEO Howard... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • Teaching Interest

Immersive Field Course: Decarbonization and Sustainable Production

By: Willy C. Shih
A course looking at pioneering efforts in sustainable production methods and technologies supporting the energy transition. View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Sustainability Management; Green Technology; Energy Generation; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Europe; Denmark; Netherlands
  • 1988
  • Book

Innovation and Competition: The Global Management of Petrochemical Products

By: Robert B. Stobaugh
Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Energy Industry; Energy Industry
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  • January 2025
  • Technical Note

Get Cool: Air Conditioning Industry Background

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
The “air conditioning paradox” is tied to climate change: the more the planet warms, the greater the need for cooling (due to the dangers of extreme heat as well as comfort within buildings), but the use of electricity-powered AC contributes to further warming. There... View Details
Keywords: Appliances; Global Warming; Energy Efficiency; Climate Change; Venture Capital; Demand and Consumers; Distribution Channels; Green Technology; United States; Asia
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  • September 2023
  • Supplement

CMA CGM: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Container Shipping

By: Willy Shih
Marine transport is the most cost-effective way to move large volumes over long distances, and container shipping is the backbone of international trade in goods. Yet shipping contributed 3% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, and the deep-sea segment, which... View Details
Keywords: Container Shipping; Decarbonization; Energy Efficiency; Logistics; Supply Chain; Trade; Environmental Regulation; Governance Compliance; Ship Transportation; Transportation Industry; Shipping Industry; Europe; Asia; North America
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  • 1987
  • Other Unpublished Work

Testimony on Evaluating the Management of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Project

By: J. Ronald Fox
Keywords: Energy; Management; Energy Industry; California
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  • September 2023
  • Supplement

CMA CGM: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Container Shipping

By: Willy Shih
Marine transport is the most cost-effective way to move large volumes over long distances, and container shipping is the backbone of international trade in goods. Yet shipping contributed 3% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, and the deep-sea segment, which... View Details
Keywords: Container Shipping; Decarbonization; Energy Efficiency; Logistics; Supply Chain; Trade; Environmental Regulation; Governance Compliance; Ship Transportation; Transportation Industry; Shipping Industry; Europe; Asia; North America
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  • October 2012 (Revised February 2014)
  • Case

Keystone XL Pipeline

By: Richard H. K. Vietor
On January 18, 2012, President Obama rejected TransCanada's application for a "national interest" determination to approve construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Keystone XL was a 1,700 mile long, 36-inch diameter pipeline to transport 1.1 million barrels a day of... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Petroleum; Environmentalism; United States; Oil Prices; National Security; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Canada; United States
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  • 20 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management

energy and transport, which attract significantly higher private investment, water management is often overlooked due to its limited profitability. Key barriers include political resistance to raising... View Details
  • October, 2022
  • Article

The Economic Dynamics of Competing Power Generation Sources

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
Competing power generation sources have experienced considerable shifts in both their revenue potential and their costs in recent years. Here we introduce the concept of Levelized Profit Margins (LPM) to capture the changing unit economics of both intermittent and... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Intermittant; Cost Accounting; Profitability Analysis; Learning-by-doing; Cannibalization Effect; Energy; Environmental Management; Investment; Operations; Technological Innovation; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
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  • July 2012
  • Supplement

Generation Investment Management, Video

By: Sandra J. Sucher
Examines the Investment process of Generation Investment Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide... View Details
Keywords: Leadership And Managing People; Accountability; Investment Management; Social Issues; Investment; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Development Economics; Natural Environment; Energy Industry; Energy Industry
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  • 28 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

Managing Your Health and the Recruiting Process: Advice from HBS Alumni

Bipolar Disorder and ADHD, Hamilton knew that managing both her hypomanic and depressive episodes would be important, especially during recruiting, to ensure she could both slow herself down to clearly articulate her skills in interviews... View Details
  • 14 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition

recognized T-shaped management as a key to success and even fewer have enjoyed its benefits. So how do you successfully cultivate T-shaped managers and capitalize on the value they can create? View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

decade I believe the research agenda at business schools will be driven by the desire to apply management principles to addressing complex social problems (like balancing energy security with environmental... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
  • Supplement

Bulb 2018: Hypergrowth

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
After a wild and volatile year, Bulb, a new entrant in the UK residential energy market, ended March 2018 with 329,171 properties, 1.2% of the total residential energy market). This was 150% ahead of a plan for 130,000 properties and almost ten times the size the... View Details
Keywords: Rapid Growth Stage; Green Energy; Start-up; Customer Acquisition; Customer Churn; Customer Engagement; Electricity; Resources; Growth Strategy; B-Corp; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurial Journey; Entrepreneurial Financing; Renewable Energy; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Working Capital; Customers; Growth Management; Finance; Decision Making; United Kingdom
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  • 21 May 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai

across the country. The climate movement can sometimes feel like a distant battleground centered around vast and technical challenges like the energy transition. While critical, these issues can seem abstract and removed from our everyday... View Details
  • 2010
  • Module Note

Employee Welfare Management at Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. – A Case Study

By: Shashank Shah and Shashank Shah
Keywords: Employee Engagement; Employee Empowerment; Human Resource Practices; Public Sector; Energy Industry; India
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  • 10 Jun 2021
  • Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

Series C start-up, in New York that provided data intelligence software to large enterprises. She later returned to Europe to join her family investment firm, Atlas Invest, investing in energy companies. Product-Market-Founder Fit During... View Details