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- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
is investing in coal now. The trend is for cheaper solar, wind, renewables, etc. It is becoming a growth area for those who want exposure.” Banyan Infrastructure’s project finance innovations meet two goals: 1) to bring capital more...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
Above: illustration by Brian Stauffer In 2008, Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) attended a presentation on climate change and the global water crisis at her five-year HBS reunion. Harvard Professor Daniel Schrag, who directs the University’s Center for the Environment, argued...
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- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
before the private sector got involved. "There is a huge public need here, which is potentially a great opportunity for business," said professor Rebecca Henderson, about water research. "It is one of the great innovation...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
between ideas and then visualizing and building maps to explain those correlations. These cartography skills have proved vital to her career. In the late 1990s, Lo was working on innovation and ventures for a media company in London when...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
a buy-American pitch to sell cars anymore (American Public Media’s Marketplace, July 6, 2009). “Despite the hype about Google’s innovation prowess, the company hasn’t proven that it can build sustainable new...
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- 01 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Confronting Climate Change in the Classroom and Beyond
From the RC’s Finance I discussion on international carbon finance and EcoSecurities, to electives such as Sustainable Cities and Resilient Infrastructure, to cases such as “Climate change: Paris, and the road ahead,” Harvard Business...
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- 13 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Welcome to the BEI Blog!
which has quickly grown to be one of the largest business & environment clubs on campus. We work closely with the Sustainability Club, as well as the Energy & Environment Club and Food, Agriculture, and Water Club to develop...
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- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
focusing on disruptive technologies, offers his analysis of the Twitter IPO phenomenon. In our second-year MBA elective Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (a course developed by my colleague Clay Christensen), one of the...
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- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
innovators alike grapple with both the impacts of climate change and how to build a more sustainable system for the future. Right now there is enormous opportunity (and need!) for strategic thinkers and...
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- 25 Jul 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Evolution of Apple
In the context of the computer industry at large, professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that's always been a bit different in "Apple Computer, 2006." The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent computer market share that year,...
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- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
Scratching the surface
what I want to do yet, but just speaking with others about their own backgrounds has helped to frame things in perspective. Some of the things I’m most looking forward to include building further on my interests in sustainability and...
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Entrepreneurship
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
essential to develop the self-awareness, compassion, emotional intelligence, and authenticity required to be inspired human beings and inspiring leaders. Book: http://www.bkconnection.com/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9781609940072&PG=1&Type=AUTH&PCS=BKP Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
research fellow at Professor Clay Christensen’s Forum for Growth and Innovation, thinks that the smaller, scrappier Chinese automakers may turn out to be the true disruptive innovators of the global EV market. By manufacturing inexpensive...
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IFC India: A Circular Journey Through JSW Cement - From Steel Slag to Stronger Shores - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment...
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- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
a system that can allow your product or service to reach as many people as possible in a sustainable way.” So far, it is reaching people quite nicely. As of April, the company has sold 50,000 Socckets, and Pulses are currently sold out....
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Bedford, Massachusetts in the 1800s, where we saw the roots of the venture capital industry. Then, of course, we found ourselves in Silicon Valley, where so many of the brands that shape our daily life got their start in humble garages. Silicon Valley has been the...
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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
2014 Management Science article, he examined the effect of a corporate culture of sustainability on corporate behavior and performance outcomes. Serafeim, a member of the Accounting and Management Unit, teaches across the School’s...
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Transportation - Business & Environment
Battery costs for electric vehicles have dropped 85% since 2010. [38] Challenge Globally, transportation is the fastest-growing source of GHG emissions. Reducing GHGs from this sector is difficult because economic growth usually requires increased mobility of goods and...
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