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The Dark Side of Solar Power
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAs interest in clean energy surges, used solar panels are going straight into landfill. -
Reputation and Its Risks
Public relations Magazine ArticleIdentify, quantify, and manage the risks to your company’s reputation long before a problem or crisis strikes. -
Ending the War Between Sales and Marketing
Business communication Magazine ArticleIn many companies, sales forces and marketers feud like Capulets and Montagues—with disastrous results. Here’s how to get them to lay down their swords. -
Overselling Sustainability Reporting
Sustainable business practices Magazine ArticleWe’re confusing output with impact. -
Oil and Troubled Waters
Power and influence Magazine ArticleWhen a crisis forces outside directors to navigate major changes, investors and directors must adopt new roles. The largest such case to date provides some useful lessons. The Royal Dutch/Shell Group was a 60/40 joint venture between Royal Dutch Petroleum and Shell Transport and Trading. It was run by a five-person committee of managing directors […] -
Your Company's Energy Data Is an Untapped Resource
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleIt can drive revenue as well as cut costs. -
Energy CEO Shai Agassi on recognizing a "sliding doors" moment
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe CEO of Better Place talks about what went through his mind the night he decided to start a venture to end the world's dependence on oil as a transportation... -
Solar Is Being Held Back by Regulations, Not Technology
Government policy and regulation ResearchThe $70 billion opportunity in the U.S. market. -
Tony Hayward Is a Scapegoat
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleIn psychology, the term "identified patient" refers to a family member - often a child or a teenager - who gets scapegoated for behavior that is actually... -
The "Wages Are Skyrocketing" Narrative Is False
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAnecdotal evidence is at odds with the data. -
What’s at Stake in an Economy with Low Oil Prices
Strategy InterviewAn interview with Ian Bremmer. -
Future-Proof Your Climate Strategy
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleMany companies are protecting themselves against "climate risk"--the damage they might suffer from heat waves, flooding, and other effects of global climate... -
World Oil and Cold Reality
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleOPEC’s oil supply now conforms to ‘producer logic,’ and the consuming nations must take positive steps to adjust to the situation -
Putting the Enterprise into the Enterprise System
Analytics and data science Magazine ArticleIf you’re not careful, the dream of information integration can turn into a nightmare. -
We May Never Know Leaders’ Responsibility in Gulf Disaster
Leadership Digital ArticleThe last official report on the April 2010 explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig was issued on September 16th. And yet the ultimate question remains: what responsibility did boards of directors and senior business leaders have for the catastrophe in the Gulf? We may never know. The report fails to address this fundamental question, just […] -
Fix Utilities Before They Need a Rescue
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleThe business model of utilities is essentially broken. The solution? Start charging customers for energy services, not energy output. -
Subsidies and the China Price
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleNew research suggests that Chinese companies' price advantage comes not from low-cost labor but from massive government subsidies. That finding has major... -
I Want To Live Like Common People: BP and the Great PR Divide
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleAfter his slicing, dicing, and grilling by Congress, BP's CEO Tony Hayward has been relieved of some of his duties, with responsibilities for managing... -
How I Did It: The CEO of Duke Energy on Learning to Work with Green Activists
Management Magazine ArticleThe Idea: When James Rogers became CEO at then-ailing PSI (now Duke Energy), he was determined to listen to all its stakeholders. But environmentalists posed a particular challenge: The green movement had long viewed the energy industry with skepticism. “How can you advocate for a low carbon future when your company is among the largest […] -
The Internet Shouldn't Run on Dirty Energy
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleWhy the time is right to invest in renewables.
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Enron: Entrepreneurial Energy
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Describes an entrepreneurial energy company that has attempted to capitalize on deregulation and privatization. Enron's experiences in energy markets... -
Bulb 2018: Hypergrowth
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details After a wild and volatile year, Bulb, a new entrant in the UK residential energy market, ended March 2018 with 329,171 properties, 1.2% of the total residential... -
Boond: Dynamic Capability - Creating a BoP Energy Market
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Boond, a last-mile energy access company, was founded to serve the rural base of the pyramid market in India. The company operated in the two states of... -
SAGASCO Holdings Limited
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In the summer of 1993, Australia's Trade Practices Commission was considering whether or not to permanently enjoin Santos Limited from acquiring SAGASCO... -
Rewa Solar India: PPP Innovation Unleashed
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Set in July 2020, this case talks about a solar park public-private partnership (PPP) project in Madhya Pradesh, India. Manu Srivastava, Chairperson of... -
Elon Musk at Tesla
Management Case Study8.95View Details This case gives an overview of Elon Musk's career arc through the lens of the 2003 founding of Tesla and its growth through 2022. Background information... -
Legrand: Lightening Their (Electricity) Load
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case illustrates the key factors that Tim Travis, the maintenance lead for Legrand North American, must consider in a capital investment decision... -
And It All Started with a Car Wash: Layers of Corruption in the Petrobras Scheme
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Petrobras is a multinational oil and gas company publicly traded in Brazil and international stock markets including the New York Stock Exchange. The... -
The Global Electric Car Industry in 2009: Developments in the U.S., China, and the Rest of the World
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case covers and analyzes the major players in the Electric Car Industry, with a focus on the United States and China. The case looks at start-ups... -
First Solar, Inc. in 2013
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details An update to First Solar (A), this case highlights changes to the solar energy market between 2010 and 2013 and the resulting challenges that First Solar... -
KiOR: Catalyzing Clean Energy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Biofuels start-up KiOR was developing a proprietary technology that had the potential to dramatically impact the emerging renewable energy landscape:... -
Reimagining Enel: Enabling Sustainable Progress
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details CEO Francesco Starace is considering what is next for Enel SpA, one of world's largest energy companies. From 2014 to 2022, he has wrought a dramatic... -
AES Tiete: Expansion Plant in Brazil
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case allows students to learn the principles of capital budgeting in a global context. It features a power company in Brazil that is a subsidiary... -
Jupiter Bach: Committing to Sustainability (Abridged)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case documents the efforts by Lone Stubberup, Global Director of Quality, Health, Safety and Environment (QHSE), to convert her employer to the highest... -
The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Causes, Consequences, and Implications
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case study discusses the causes, consequences and implications of the nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Company's (TEPCO's) Fukushima Dai-ichi... -
Green Hydrogen in Chile
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In 2020, the Chilean government wants to promote green hydrogen, a technology with high potential to help mitigate climate change. President Sebastián... -
Gainesville Regional Utilities
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details In 1993 the municipally owned utility serving Gainesville, Florida was threatening to build a 23-mile rail spur to connect its coal-fired power plant... -
TH!NK: The Norwegian Electric Car Company
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details 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... -
Envision Group
Global Business Case Study15.05View Details Based in China, Envision was one of the world's leading Greentech companies. Chief Executive Officer Lei Zhang had set the goal of achieving carbon neutrality... -
TotalEnergies' Investment in Hyzon Motors
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In November 2021, Girish Nadkarni, the head of TotalEnergies' corporate venture capital arm (TEV) was considering whether, and on what terms, to exit...
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The Dark Side of Solar Power
Organizational Development Digital ArticleAs interest in clean energy surges, used solar panels are going straight into landfill. -
Reputation and Its Risks
Public relations Magazine ArticleIdentify, quantify, and manage the risks to your company’s reputation long before a problem or crisis strikes. -
Ending the War Between Sales and Marketing
Business communication Magazine ArticleIn many companies, sales forces and marketers feud like Capulets and Montagues—with disastrous results. Here’s how to get them to lay down their swords. -
Overselling Sustainability Reporting
Sustainable business practices Magazine ArticleWe’re confusing output with impact. -
Enron: Entrepreneurial Energy
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Describes an entrepreneurial energy company that has attempted to capitalize on deregulation and privatization. Enron's experiences in energy markets... -
Bulb 2018: Hypergrowth
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details After a wild and volatile year, Bulb, a new entrant in the UK residential energy market, ended March 2018 with 329,171 properties, 1.2% of the total residential... -
Newfield Energy, Instructor Spreadsheet
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleInstructor's Spreadsheet for Product Number 914541. -
Yale Investments Office: November 2020, Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTeaching note for case 821074. -
Boond: Dynamic Capability - Creating a BoP Energy Market
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Boond, a last-mile energy access company, was founded to serve the rural base of the pyramid market in India. The company operated in the two states of... -
Oil and Troubled Waters
Power and influence Magazine ArticleWhen a crisis forces outside directors to navigate major changes, investors and directors must adopt new roles. The largest such case to date provides some useful lessons. The Royal Dutch/Shell Group was a 60/40 joint venture between Royal Dutch Petroleum and Shell Transport and Trading. It was run by a five-person committee of managing directors […]