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- 02 Mar 2023
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Carbon's Second Act
thought needed additional investment of time and resources which was fundamentally what to do with carbon dioxide. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast DM: Brix had watched the View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
tracking the company’s fleet of custom-built delivery trucks as they move across 20 metropolitan areas in 14 states. Car owners can request gasoline and a host of other services, such as tire checks, car washes, and oil changes, via the Yoshi app. Field View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
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Honoring a Legend
Atlanta Entrepreneurs Honor Nussey’s Impacts on Tech and Solar Catherine Cates (MBA 1983) & Bill Nussey (MBA 1996) Steve Kirschner (MBA 1986), Bill Nussey (MBA 1996), & John Yates (event host) Nussey presenting to HBS alumni Nussey and...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
clean out their closets and earn some cash or score discounted used clothing and lighten fashion’s carbon footprint. Revitalizing Bricks and Mortar Under the guidance of product manager Soufi Esmaeilzadeh (MBA 2010), Google Maps comes...
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- 19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues
residents with tangible results: When a BOS:311 app user posts a photo of a downed tree limb, for example, the responding public works team often adds a photo of the clean street as well as the workers. “It closes the loop,” she says,...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
panelists were collectively bullish on solar energy, electric drive technology that powers hybrid and electric cars, and biofuels (including ethanol). By contrast, they were cautiously optimistic about clean coal, nuclear power, and...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
energy at the district level as well as sourcing clean energy from large-scale suppliers. For cities and businesses, millions of dollars saved is equal to millions of dollars earned, and that can readily be achieved through greater...
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- 19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
Cong. Don Beyer, Anne Kelly (HKS 1996), Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006), Sarah Wright (MBA 1997), Prof. Michael Toffel, and Matt Sonnesyn (HKS 2002). Fifty years ago, the Clean Air Act passed the United States Congress with overwhelming...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
that the plant will be the first of many built by Sykué (“See-kway”) Bioenergia, as the new company is known. Recognizing the resources that will require, Sykué is negotiating a partnership with a larger energy player to realize those ambitions. — JH The Wind in the...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count
Image by Martin Leon Barreto In 2021, while the pandemic was amplifying social inequities and climate catastrophes, investors were busy pouring more money than ever into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments: In the United States alone, an estimated...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a...
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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
attention has focused on clean energy and the climate crisis. In May, KPCB announced its second fund in green technology, bringing its total investment in green solutions to $1.2 billion. Doerr describes green View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
they’ve shown a willingness to think in new ways about energy and to consider longer-term strategies such as using immigration to support scientific and technical advances. But what’s needed with clean tech...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation...
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- 08 Mar 2018
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HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
percent with their newfound investor money, or sit back and tinker and refine further. That created a lively debate, particularly between guests in the tech sector and those representing more traditional industries.” This is the second...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
simply rearranging their assets, and claiming to be more valuable. In both cases, “ultimately the numbers didn’t add up,” she notes. “Something has to happen to create value.” Moore is anxious for investors to recover from the bursting of the View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
electricity—enough to power approximately 150 households. The turbines are the spinning heart of the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project, an initiative undertaken by Verdant Power, the startup that Smith cofounded in 2000 to commercialize tidal energy, a View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
help. Founded in 2012 in Washington, DC, by Dan Mindus (MBA 2008), the group of more than 90 has become one of the most active tech investors in that city, providing financing and networking opportunities to young companies, such as...
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- 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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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
definition means being comfortable with failing.” “Failure is not just the opposite of success,” says Shikhar Ghosh, a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit who has founded or led eight tech startups over the past 20...
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