Energy - Publications - Faculty & Research

2023
Working Paper

The Economic and Environmental Effects of Making Electricity Infrastructure Excludable

By: Husnain Fateh Ahmad, Ayesha Ali, Robyn C. Meeks, Zhenxuan Wang and Javed Younas

Electricity theft occurs when individuals cannot be excluded from accessing services. We study the impacts of an infrastructure upgrade in Karachi, Pakistan -- converting bare distribution wires to aerial bundled cables (ABCs) -- that was intended to prevent illegal... View Details

Keywords: Infrastructure; Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Utilities Industry; Pakistan

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The North America Environmental Fund (NAEF)

By: Roberto Charvel, Fernando Fabre and T. Putimahtama

NAEF was the first VC fund created in Latin America. It was also the first fund to focus on green technologies. The fund and its managers confronted several issues regarding the under-developed governance and cultural structures required for succesful VC investments. View Details

Keywords: Clean Tech; Emerging Market; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Governance; Technology; Green Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; North and Central America

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09 Sep 2013
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Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

Keywords: Business and Environment Initiative; Agriculture; Finance

17 Nov 2016
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Wired for Innovation

challenges. In his latest role, as founder and president of Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners, he hopes to push the United States closer to what he considers an attainable national goal: a 30 percent reliance on renewable energy.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

Portrait Project

Deena Bahri

Energy is my currency of choice. When I was 17, I read a quote by Sarah Bernhardt: "Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." It has taken me the... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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Research Brief: As the Wind Blows

To better understand the prospects for future entrepreneurial success in sustainable industries, Professor Geoffrey Jones looks to the past. In his chapter in the new book Green Capitalism?, for instance, Jones delves into the history of wind View Details

Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

01 Jun 2025
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Origin Story: Mary Chen (MBA 2026)

getaway: “One of the top-floor rooms in Spangler has large windows up in the trees that let in a ton of natural light and look out on Aldrich. It’s a place to hunker down and get some inspiration.” Summer internship: Late-stage climate investing at Lime Rock New View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Leah Fasten; climate finance; MBA; student life

07 Nov 2024
Blog Post

Exploring California’s Climate Frontier: E&E Club’s Bay Area Trek

Last week, students from Harvard Business School’s Energy & Environment Club traveled to the Bay Area for a Climate Trek, an immersive journey to connect Harvard students with the vibrant climate ecosystem on the West Coast. This trek... View Details

05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

Foreign investment in developing countries has always involved an element of risk. Just ask Verizon Communications, which could lose hundreds of millions of dollars in Venezuela should President Hugo Chávez follow through with plans announced in January to nationalize... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Energy

March 1981
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Comet Energy, Inc. (C)

By: J. Ronald Fox

Keywords: Energy Industry

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December 1970 (Revised October 1980)
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Distrigas Corp.

By: James L. Heskett

Keywords: Energy Industry

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December 1988 (Revised December 1991)
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Compagnie Generale D'Electricite

By: W. Carl Kester and Richard P. Melnick

Keywords: Energy Industry

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April 1988 (Revised May 1992)
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Gaz de France

By: W. Carl Kester

The treasurer of Gaz de France is an aggressive, proactive manager of his company's liability structure, running one of the largest swap books of any non-financial corporation in the world. Currency futures, interbank forwards, and currency options are also frequently... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Borrowing and Debt; Currency Exchange Rate; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Policy; Management; Organizational Structure; Energy Industry; Europe

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