Publications

January 2024 (Revised February 2024)
Case

TPG Rise Climate: Deploying 'Climate Capital'

By: Vikram S. Gandhi, David Allen, Sarah Mehta and Shannon Roche

This case is about TPG Rise Climate, a $7.3 billion climate impact fund launched in 2021 by alternative asset manager TPG. Climate investing is a complex, capital-intensive endeavor; entering it has forced TPG to think and act differently. Relative to other funds, Rise... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Environmental Management; Ownership; Science; Value; Asset Management; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry; California; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)

Portrait Project

Lourdes Long

Human energy is renewable energy. My energy doesn't come from pipelines or wires. My energy comes from tackling intellectual and personal challenges. I once told my father I... View Details

02 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges

Water and Power, the largest public utility in the United States with more than $6 billion in revenue, some 12,000 employees, and, arguably, the most complex water system in the world. She left that position in March 2024 and continues to focus on sustainable water and... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Start Me Up

business or a social enterprise track, the fledgling companies pitched everything from early-stage Alzheimer's diagnosis technology to environmentally friendly lodging. Below, the four that the competition's alumni judges—plucked from the start-up and nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; infographic

27 Sep 2019
Blog Post

HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis

of algae biofuel, both a clean energy source for heavy transportation modules (trucks, planes, trains, and ships) and a carbon-catching technology. A MARKET-BASED APPROACH TO SOLVING THE WORLD’S WATER CRISISJennifer Tisdel Schorsch (MBA... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources

Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Finance (taught in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Design), the BEI has generated 25 to 30 new environmentally related case studies each year. The BEI also hosts the annual alumni HBS View Details

Keywords: Dalai Lama

17 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - The Future of Green Building

example of construction that balances both energy and cost efficiency. “At the end, the operation cost is about a third of a traditional building. [Furthermore], we have ecological climatization and a much more cost-efficient or... View Details

03 Aug 2020
News

A Clean Start

and bactericides to tires and textiles—or for storing intermittent renewable energy until it is ready to be used. OCO’s current electrolyzer design is about the size of a mini-fridge, but the team is working to create a larger version... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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

October 2024
Teaching Note

Vineyard Wind Starts Spinning (B): Breakdown and (C): Recovery and Progress

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 325-054 and 325-055. View Details

May 2024
Supplement

Harvard University and Urban Mining Industries: Decarbonizing the Supply Chain - Instructor Version

By: Shirley Lu and Robert Kaplan

February 2024
Supplement

X: The Foghorn Decision

By: Kyle Myers

Portrait Project

Allison Floam

really remembers why they are laughing. Disruptive? Perhaps. But I have learned that laughter is infectious and that I want to spread the giggles throughout the world. I am determined to bring this joy and positive energy to everyone I... View Details

June 2022
Case

PFA Pensions: The Climate Plus Product

By: Daniel Green, Victoria Ivashina and Alys Ferragamo

The case explores whether alternative investments play a unique role in achieving low carbon dioxide emissions at the portfolio level. This case is set in April of 2020 and follows Kasper Ahrndt Lorenzen, Chief Investment Officer, and Peter Tind Larsen, Head of... View Details

Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Carbon Footprint; Alternative Assets; Alternative Investment Vehicles; Pension Fund Investing; Private Equity; Renewable Energy; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Denmark

Web

Fabrizio Serafini | MBA

efficiency and improve output through technological advancements was a revelation. Later, as an analyst in the energy commodities industry, I delved into the world of predictive modeling. This experience taught me the importance of... View Details

02 Dec 2018
News

An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

sustainability at Citigroup; Michael Ellis (MBA 2008), managing director of Inherent Group; Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), president of CBJ Energy; and Jackson Lehr (MBA 2007), director of distributed energy ventures at National Grid.... View Details

Keywords: Allison Webster; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

19 Mar 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy

June 1988 (Revised December 1991)
Case

An Tai Bao Coal Mining Project

By: W. Carl Kester and Richard P. Melnick

An Tai Bao is the world's largest open-pit coal mine and is located in China's Shanxi province. After eight years of planning and negotiating, Occidental Petroleum, the foreign partner in the deal, is about to sign an ownership and financing agreement for $475 million... View Details

Keywords: Planning; Agreements and Arrangements; Non-Renewable Energy; Equity; Partners and Partnerships; Negotiation Deal; Joint Ventures; Mining Industry; China