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- 21 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax
across the country. During the “IFC: Immersive Field Course,” HBS students had the opportunity to visit the site of a rooftop solar facility in Bangalore, India. The solar site is deployed and managed by... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
Ayala: With solar lantern in hand, kicking off a campaign to light the rural Philippines. Photo courtesy Jim Ayala After a successful corporate career that included two decades as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and, most recently,... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Bringing Power to the People
“What we do at Neoen is quite ambitious—we try to bring electricity to people who didn’t have it. “Neoen is a power producer. We produce electricity that comes from renewable energy sources, mostly solar and wind. And we do that with... 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... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
that most western countries have had to go through over the last 100 years, there's an opportunity for these countries, as they're building infrastructure for the first time, to immediately go to cleaner and cheaper sources of energy, such as View Details
- Career Coach
Oscar Mak
Prior to joining Toyota Tsusho, Oscar held various cleantech roles, including project development, renewable energy finance, and corporate development for a solar energy technology startup. He has additional experience as a consultant... View Details
- 22 Feb 2017
- News
Funding Solar’s Future
Photos courtesy Double Time Capital Photos courtesy Double Time Capital A recent Fortune article profiles Double Time Capital, an investment firm focused on utility-scale solar farms in North Carolina founded by Rye Barcott (MBA 2009) and... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- News
Into the Light
Energicity. “Modern life, as we know it, is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the human and economic costs of “energy poverty” firsthand in rural Ghana. There, her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly... View Details
- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
spark a home-design revolution. A Passive House is designed to be ultra-energy efficient. Some, like Harper’s Victorian, achieve net-zero-energy demand by pairing low-energy use with solar panels for energy production. Harper’s home is... View Details
- Profile
John Nordin
important person in my life. That's where environmental issues became important to me." So important, in fact, that a year before John entered HBS, he founded his own company, Flipswitch, a web application for solar companies that... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Oakville, Ontario Energy management applications Paul Grana (MBA 2009) Tigo Energy Los Gatos, California; Munich, Germany; and Osaka, Japan Hardware and software that brings new levels of power output efficiency, management, and control to photovoltaic View Details
- Career Coach
Elizabeth Gelb
Partners Group Infrastructure (internship); Deloitte Consulting (international development/energy reform); Vriens & Partners Myanmar (political risk consulting); Shihezi University; US Federal Government (internship); Hybrid Social Solutions (off-grid View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
The “A” List
Started in 1995 in Columbus, Ohio, by Angela Hicks (MBA ’00), Angie’s List is a consumer-driven report card on numerous local services (plumbers, car mechanics, and moving companies, not to mention solar panels and Christmas decorating)... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
cause of it. Thick, old ice reflects 80 percent of solar radiation, helping to keep the planet cool. Brittle, newly formed ice is only half as effective and melts more easily. And open water reflects only 5 percent of the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
Atlanta Entrepreneurs Honor Nussey’s Impacts on Tech and Solar Catherine Cates (MBA 1983) & Bill Nussey (MBA 1996) Steve Kirschner (MBA 1986), Bill Nussey (MBA 1996), & John Yates (event host) Nussey presenting to HBS alumni Nussey and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
The Power of Business in the Energy Transition
from solar and wind farms. Project development of major transmission lines to handle alternative sources must intently focus on stakeholder alignment across public and private sectors to speed project delivery. Both speakers touched on... View Details
- Portrait Project
Joel Segre
It took a while for me to realize that I don't just want to feel accomplished. I want to feel alive. The images on my resumé are not the only ones in my dreams, and there is no reason to pretend they should be. In addition to solar cars,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Climate Change Optimist
says. Green America’s sustainable supply chain networks provide peer learning, support, and connections to innovations. “I love the market-solution focus of what we do,” says Gravitz, noting that, in recent big utility buys, solar and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
lie in research by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou, Shelley Xin Li, and George Serafeim. Power from Sunshine: A Business History of Solar EnergyThis paper by Geoffrey Jones and Loubna Bouamane provides a business history of View Details