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- January 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA
By: Richard Vietor
Cape Wind is an extreme example of NIMBY--not in my backyard syndrome. This is the first offshore wind project planned for the United States, in Nantucket Sound, just south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Initially proposed six years ago, in 2001, the wind farm would be...
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Keywords:
Renewable Energy;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Projects;
Government and Politics;
Environmental Sustainability;
Business and Community Relations;
Public Opinion;
Power and Influence;
Energy Industry;
Massachusetts
Vietor, Richard. "Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA." Harvard Business School Case 708-022, January 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
- October 2007 (Revised April 2009)
- Case
TH!NK: The Norwegian Electric Car Company
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and David Kiron
On August 1, 2007, 61-year-old Jan-Olaf Willums' plane was flying along the Greenland coastline on his way back to Norway after intense discussions with several prominent U.S. venture capital investors, among them Kleiner Perkins and Rockport Capital Partners, about...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Innovation and Invention;
Product Launch;
Market Entry and Exit;
Environmental Sustainability;
Pollutants;
Auto Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
Europe;
Norway
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and David Kiron. "TH!NK: The Norwegian Electric Car Company." Harvard Business School Case 808-070, October 2007. (Revised April 2009.)
- September 2007 (Revised September 2008)
- Case
Buildings and Energy
By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Nazli Uludere
Presents data on opportunities to conserve energy in buildings, which account for about a third of all energy use. Encourages readers to think about the impediments to energy efficiency in the buildings sector and the ways in which entrepreneurs can profitably surmount...
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Keywords:
Buildings and Facilities;
Energy Conservation;
Construction;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Innovation and Invention;
Performance Efficiency;
Environmental Sustainability;
Construction Industry
Reinhardt, Forest L., and Nazli Uludere. "Buildings and Energy." Harvard Business School Case 708-024, September 2007. (Revised September 2008.)
- September 2006 (Revised November 2008)
- Case
Supergrid
Supergrid is a mammoth wind-power development scheme for Europe, recently proposed by Airtricity. This firm, founded in 1997, is a fast-growing power-development company focused on wind. Already having built about 600 megawatts of wind turbines in Scotland and Ireland,...
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Keywords:
Energy Generation;
Renewable Energy;
Entrepreneurship;
Performance Capacity;
Business and Government Relations;
Environmental Sustainability;
Energy Industry;
Europe;
United States
Vietor, Richard H.K. "Supergrid." Harvard Business School Case 707-016, September 2006. (Revised November 2008.)
- 2002
- Chapter
Institutions as Barriers and Enablers to Negotiated Agreements: Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Plum Creek Habitat Conservation Plan
By: John G. Troast, Andrew Hoffman, Hannah Riley and Max Bazerman
Troast, John G., Andrew Hoffman, Hannah Riley, and Max Bazerman. "Institutions as Barriers and Enablers to Negotiated Agreements: Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Plum Creek Habitat Conservation Plan." Chap. 10 in Organizations, Policy and the Natural Environment: Institutional and Strategic Perspectives, edited by A Hoffman and M Ventresca. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.
- February 1997 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
Walden Woods
By: William J. Poorvu and Arthur I Segel
In 1984, Mortimer Zuckerman and Ed Linde, through their firm, Boston Properties (BP), acquired land in Concord, MA to build a 147,000-square-foot, first-class suburban office building. BP proceeded to go through the permitting and approval process with the town and was...
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Keywords:
Risk and Uncertainty;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Entrepreneurship;
Property;
Environmental Sustainability;
Conflict and Resolution;
Real Estate Industry;
Massachusetts
Poorvu, William J., and Arthur I Segel. "Walden Woods." Harvard Business School Case 897-070, February 1997. (Revised July 2004.)
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Nancy F. Koehn
My research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Using the lens of history, my work examines how individual leaders from business, government and other walks accomplish important—often seemingly...
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- Teaching Interest
Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Combining the tools of philanthropy, business and advocacy (or mission, margin and mandate), social entrepreneurs have tackled long-standing societal issues like teacher training, college access, global public health, renewable energy and sanitation. Social...
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The Sociology of Entrepreneurship Revisited
By: Tristan Botelho, Ranjay Gulati and Olav Sorensen
Over the last two decades, the sociology of entrepreneurship has exploded as an area of academic inquiry. Most of this research has been focused on understanding the environmental conditions that promote entrepreneurship and processes related to the initial formation...
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