Projects

“Three Questions” for you and your team as you set up your project:

http://hbsibee.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/three-questions-for-you-and-your-teammates/

Informal list of possible project topics Updated Sept 12, 2013

Some items from HBS intranet Company Opportunity Postings (passworded page) (check the Postings site for updates; it changes frequently):

• What are main financial incentives for real estate developers to build storm water resilient landscaping? (Possible interaction with EPA and Emmett Environmental Law Clinic at Harvard Law School)  – see EPA company posting on “Independent Projects Company Opportunity Postings” here and Emmett Enviro Law clinic here.

• Ogena Solutions
• Cleantech Technology Transfer to Latin America
• Environmental Protection Agency/ Harvard Law School – Stormwater incentives
• Empire State Building: LEED and/or Energy Cost/Benefit Analysis?
• NOAA National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration – Dissemination of empirical weather and climate data (2012-2013 list)
• Sea Level Rise and New Office Tower – Boston

Past projects

Q3, Q4 W2013 (All of these were for 3.0 credits, with a company sponsor; the Q1 F 2013 setup is different)

• EnerNOC:  Go to market strategy for Demand-Response energy efficiency company
• Artificial Leaf:  Go to market strategy for “artificial photosynthesis” – alternate to PV solar
• Senscient- Segmentation strategy for gas and vapor sensing and measurement technology
• Non invasive load monitoring – Energy efficiency applications
• Waste plant oil from restaurants – conversion to fuel
• Human-based sustainable agriculture in Mozambique

2012  (these were all with companies; this is not necessary in Q2 F 2013)

• Witricity – Wireless electric power transfer
• FloDesign Sonics – Ultrasonic filtration for water, oil, waste, other fluids
• Pan-African Sugar and Ethanol
• Design for Disassembly: Leasing of Building Components
• SCIEnergy – Energy efficiency finance
• Dynamo Micropower – small wind turbines
• CoolChip Technologies – Kinetic coolers
• Solar company finance
• Shale gas development (white paper)
• Synthetic Genomics: Biomass feedstock production
• Saltwater electricity