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- 09 May 2022
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Green House
In the Observatory Hill neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Betsy Harper (MBA 1984) has built an oxymoron: a brand-new, historic home. The recently completed structure combines traditional architecture and the latest in high-efficiency building science. It is a...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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The “A” List
Started in 1995 in Columbus, Ohio, by Angela Hicks (MBA ’00), Angie’s List is a consumer-driven report card on numerous local services (plumbers, car mechanics, and moving companies, not to mention solar panels and Christmas decorating)...
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- 19 Jul 2011
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Brightening the Future
Ayala: With solar lantern in hand, kicking off a campaign to light the rural Philippines. Photo courtesy Jim Ayala After a successful corporate career that included two decades as a senior partner at McKinsey & Company and, most recently,...
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- 22 Feb 2017
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Funding Solar’s Future
Photos courtesy Double Time Capital Photos courtesy Double Time Capital A recent Fortune article profiles Double Time Capital, an investment firm focused on utility-scale solar farms in North Carolina founded by Rye Barcott (MBA 2009) and...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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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...
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- 20 Jan 2017
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Bringing Power to the People
“What we do at Neoen is quite ambitious—we try to bring electricity to people who didn’t have it. “Neoen is a power producer. We produce electricity that comes from renewable energy sources, mostly solar and wind. And we do that with...
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- 03 Apr 2018
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Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
that most western countries have had to go through over the last 100 years, there's an opportunity for these countries, as they're building infrastructure for the first time, to immediately go to cleaner and cheaper sources of energy, such as View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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A Better World, One Idea at a Time
essential technologies, such as bicycle-powered machines, affordable solar lanterns, and smokeless cook stoves, designed for the rural poor at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
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- 27 Apr 2015
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“A Unique Leadership Experience”
his mission ends in May. The GMP program, was “the best commander training I had,” he told the assembled crowd from some 220 miles above the Earth. Behind Virts, the sun reflected off the space station’s solar arrays, visible through two...
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- 18 Apr 2018
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Into the Light
Energicity. “Modern life, as we know it, is impossible.” Poindexter has seen the human and economic costs of “energy poverty” firsthand in rural Ghana. There, her startup is working to bring solar power to communities where highly...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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‘Green’ Trailblazers
Oakville, Ontario Energy management applications Paul Grana (MBA 2009) Tigo Energy Los Gatos, California; Munich, Germany; and Osaka, Japan Hardware and software that brings new levels of power output efficiency, management, and control to photovoltaic View Details
- 06 Aug 2008
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Caution to the Winds
campaign that argues that the United States must immediately get into wind and solar in a big way (http://pickensplan.com). Ironically, it was Pickens who helped bankroll the Swift Boat ads that in 2004 sank wind-surfing presidential...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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A Climate Change Optimist
says. Green America’s sustainable supply chain networks provide peer learning, support, and connections to innovations. “I love the market-solution focus of what we do,” says Gravitz, noting that, in recent big utility buys, solar and...
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Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe
- 01 Dec 2003
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Good Day Sunshine
242f07dca21bab1cbbd0dd3faf4f40ca Thanks to second-year students Brian Robertson (at left) and Dan Cook, the roof of Shad Hall now boasts 192 solar panels, the second largest such installation in Boston. HBS, Harvard University, and the...
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- 21 Oct 2020
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Cold Calculations
cause of it. Thick, old ice reflects 80 percent of solar radiation, helping to keep the planet cool. Brittle, newly formed ice is only half as effective and melts more easily. And open water reflects only 5 percent of the View Details
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April White
- 01 May 2013
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Michael F. Cronin, MBA 1977
Detroit, and even the student whose idea it was to put solar panels on the roof of Shad,” he notes. Cronin is the cofounder and managing partner of Weston Presidio, a private equity firm with offices on both US coasts and over $3 billion...
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- 10 May 2023
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Students Strive to Solve Climate Change
As part of the Business & Environment Initiative’s “Accelerating Climate Solutions” conference on May 10, 2023, four HBS MBA Class of 2023 students discuss their efforts toward solving climate challenges: Chidalu Onyenso founded EarthBond to link Nigerians with...
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Carbon capture
- 08 Jan 2016
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Investing in Sustainability
invested in companies such as AeroFarms, an indoor growing system that uses aerosolized nutrients to grow food without soil; the Conservation Capital Fund, which finances free-range cattle operations; and eNow, which produces solar panels...
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- 03 Feb 2021
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Power Play
a ways off. But as he watched innovations like battery storage and solar drive sharp increases in demand, that clean-energy future didn’t seem so far away any longer. “We are moving off fossil fuels at a clip faster than anybody, even...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2016
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Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
thatched-roof hut. GiveDirectly payments allowed him to buy building materials and livestock. The family now sleeps under an iron roof fitted with a solar panel and raises goats and cows. “My proudest achievement is that I now own several...
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April White