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- Sep 2014
- Article
What It Takes to Reshore Manufacturing Successfully
The data on comparative labor and energy costs may seem compelling, but the process of bringing assembly work back to domestic factories from abroad is substantially more challenging than the economics alone would predict. This paper... View Details
- Career Coach
Nicole Ledoux
finance. She started her career in investment management at Putnam Investments as a fixed income quantitative analyst. Post-HBS, she worked at Constellation Energy in London in portfolio management, where she co-managed a 400MM physical... View Details
- 24 Aug 2021
- News
Having a Moment
Aisha Chottani (MBA 2015) Aisha Chottani (MBA 2015) As an engagement manager at McKinsey, Aisha Chottani (MBA 2015) often found herself in need of an afternoon energy boost. But caffeinated, sugary drinks left her feeling even more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Carnival Queen
In Chicago, Desirée Glapion Rogers (MBA '85) is known as a hardworking executive at Peoples Energy, a diversified energy company, and as the former head of the Illinois State Lottery. But ask folks in New Orleans about her and you'll get... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
believe it or not, is its own country.” — MICHAEL SKELLY (MBA ’91), founder of Houston-based Clean Line Energy Partners, at the HBS “Think Tank on Energy, the Environment, and Business” conference, March 5, 2010. “You sell tickets, you... View Details
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details
- 26 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Week NYC 2023
highlighted the power of writing from diverse perspectives with the Imagine 2200 climate fiction project. Other discussions ranged from emissions from corporate finance, renewables and energy efficiency in supply chains, reinventing value... View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kim Scott
My father forgot what was really important to him until it was too late. He was then left with an empty existence once he realized life had passed him by. I will live passionately. And I will use my energy to make those who are important... View Details
- 01 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies
Keywords: by Erin M. Reid & Michael W. Toffel
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
In 2016, Bruce Wayne, Managing Director of Energy Finance Corporation (EFC), was refining the Investment/Credit Committee materials for the development of up to 10 power generating plants in Argentina. As a subsidiary of the much larger... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment
pollutants that cause climate change. Transitioning to fossil-fuel free energy sources for these processes, improving efficiency and reducing waste, and bringing low-carbon alternatives to market could dramatically reduce greenhouse gas... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
York Reena Russell, MBA 2003 Co-founder EnergyGridIQ enabling energy projects northwestern us HBS Association of Northern California Jacquelyn Kung, MBA 2006 COO ClearCare private-pay homecare services southeastern us HBS Club of Atlanta... View Details
- March 2024
- Case
Transforming a Region: Gothenburg’s path from Shipyards to E-Mobility
By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Orjan Solvell
The case profiles the economic development of the Gothenburg region in Western Sweden, and the efforts of the regional economic development agency. During this period the region’s traditionally strong automotive cluster started to transform towards e-mobility... View Details
Keywords: Regional Economic Activity; Cluster; Economic Development; Economic Growth; Government and Politics; Transformation; Green Technology; Auto Industry; Sweden
Ketels, Christian H.M., and Orjan Solvell. "Transforming a Region: Gothenburg's Path from Shipyards to E-mobility." Harvard Business School Case 724-403, March 2024.
- 22 Apr 2014
- News
Documentary Series Sheds Light on Climate Change at HBS
- 01 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Confronting Climate Change in the Classroom and Beyond
they want to put their energy and focus their career.” BEI was founded in 2010 to connect and engage faculty, students, alumni, and practitioners on environment-focused research, teaching, and discourse. Its mission: to deepen the... View Details
- Profile
Joseph Abel
bigger.” Two years at Bain & Co. gave Joe an insider’s perspective on the connections between energy and climate change; one that became even deeper when he took on multiple roles at Sungevity, a small but innovative solar-energy... View Details
- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
the energy crisis, and (2) the economic meltdown. I’ve been rereading Energy Future, HBS professor emeritus Robert Stobaugh’s 1979 best-seller that predicted America’s dependence on foreign oil could well... View Details
- 2017
- Book
Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are compatible through the lens of a global history of green entrepreneurship between the nineteenth century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Entrepreneurship; Green Business; Sustainability; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Business History; Religion; Environmental Sustainability; Alternative Energy Industry; Alternative Energy Industry; Alternative Energy Industry; Alternative Energy Industry; Alternative Energy Industry; Alternative Energy Industry; Alternative Energy Industry; Alternative Energy Industry; Alternative Energy Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; Oceania
Jones, Geoffrey. Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events
Maple Leaf Chapter co-hosted HBS professor Leonard Schlesinger (pictured) at Toronto’s Four Seasons Hotel in January. Professor Schlesinger led all 110 attendees in a case discussion and lecture on delivering breakthrough service in the 21st century. 4 The HBS View Details