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- 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 utility companies. The company is based in New Jersey, the...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
HBS alumnus Philip Rettger on partnering with the Harvard endowment
Philip Rettger (MBA 1985) has focused his career on renewable and sustainable energy. "While none of us knows what the future will offer for investment returns, I am pleased that the charitable remainder trust that I established several years ago is being invested by...
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Philip Sporn
Sporn was one of the foremost contributors to the growth in the consumption and dissemination of electric power. A tireless advocate for the industry, Sporn’s efforts were aimed at greater efficiency of operations through technological...
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Utilities & Energy
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries (The Free Press) is the fourth major book by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., the School's Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus. It is the heretofore untold...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Noted & Quoted
"I was always a windup toy for achievement." —Barry Rowan (MBA 1983), on taking a "purposeful pause" in his career before moving to Cool Planet Energy Systems. (CFO.com, December 19, 2012)
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Lighting It Up
Last December, David Wilkins (MBA 1990) admired the brilliant skyline of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbor, with its color-changing buildings and holiday lighting. “I love when nighttime comes,” the former investment banker told the Rocky Mountain News (December 24, 2004)....
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- 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....
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Wind Shift
the island of Vinalhaven, Maine. The $15 million project is the largest community-owned wind facility on the East Coast. Standing nearly 400 feet tall, the structures will fill the electricity needs of the several thousand year-round and...
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- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
Eric Giler by Francis Storrs Standing on the stage of TEDGlobal in Oxford, England, WiTricity CEO Eric Giler (MBA 1982) is nervous. It's July 2009, and he's about to show how his company's technology can beam electricity through the air...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
lower emissions) is becoming the focus of operators. Consumers are shifting their product preferences and investors are incorporating these in their asset allocations and specific investment decisions. There will be large changes in the View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
global CO2 emissions. They also remain the hubs and engines for the world’s economic, political, cultural, and social development. Fortunately, because of their legislative power to regulate buildings, density, energy use, and...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Rust Belt Turns ‘Sun Belt’ with Solar
Tiller: Rust Belt bet. Steve Sanchez/Indianapolis Star Other Newsmakers Bob Gannon (OPM 16, 1990) Diana ("Dido") Harding (MBA ’92) David Miller (MBA ’03) Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) Amos Schocken (MBA ’70) Mike Stone (MBA ’88) Bill Wyman (MBA ’65) Ammara Yaqub (MBA ’05)...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
controls the recruitment and tenure of directors, sets the board’s agenda, selects the information that flows to the board, and oversees the process of evaluating CEO performance, directors will find it difficult to shift the power...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
A Wonderful Whirl
Mounted atop the Soldiers Field Park Garage, two wind turbines — 40-foot towers with 11.5-foot blades — represent Harvard’s biggest wind-energy project to date. Weighing more than 1,000 pounds each, the turbines are expected to supply 5 to 10 percent of the seven-story...
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- 21 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax
consumption today comes from renewable energy sources while the country’s goal is to have 50% of electricity consumption powered by clean sources by 2030. CleanMax executives shared that solar is cheaper...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
that provides incentives to employees while generating profits and growth.” The plan: Rechargeable batteries are a safe, clean, affordable energy source. Each battery has the size and weight of a brick and can be delivered directly to customers via motorbike. A single...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
from fossil fuels to alternative sources of energy. We will need to finance research in technology innovation and biotechnology, including stem cell research. We will need to generate most of our electricity using nuclear fuel. We will...
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