Why I wouldn’t put my money in stocks in the clean tech space.

By Anonymous Upon reading the Dow and Nestle cases, I had the exact same response as Kayley – wondering if there is a link between investing in sustainability and financial outperformance. Her research points to the fact that investing in sustainable initiatives may be a proxy for other company practices that drive strong performance, but […]

Continue reading →

I Have Hope: How Technology Will Help Solve Our Global Energy & Environmental Challenges

By Anonymous Summary: A look at three companies that are commercializing technologies that profitably eliminate waste streams and generate clean electricity, fuels, and chemicals. Discussion in a well-educated classroom of business and policy students can quickly grow discouraging as we talk about the failure of policy, rising global emissions, the coal build-out in China, and […]

Continue reading →

1366 Technologies: Clean Tech & the Entrepreneurial State

By Anonymous The US has always had an active state industrial policy, just like every other industrial country. It’s been understood that a system of private enterprise can survive only if there is extensive government intervention. It’s needed to regulate disorderly markets and protect private capital from the destructive effects of the market system, and […]

Continue reading →

Public Perception and Journalism in Energy and the Environment

By Nick Ling In both “KKR: Leveraging Sustainability” and Nuclear Power classes many parts of the discussion have focused towards public perception of Energy and the Environment. For instance in the case of KKR, we discussed that a Private Equity firm may be investing in sustainable initiatives for positive “PR” rather than the intrinsic good […]

Continue reading →

A real positive impact with KKR’s green fund

By Mabel Feng KKR’s Green Portfolio Program is a great example of how private equity can add real value. It has found a way to invest and promote sustainability and energy initiatives across firms. Moreover, it is shedding light on the opaque task of valuing energy awareness for a firm. I may be drinking the […]

Continue reading →

Who will be the leaders in $15bn mega fund aimed at clean energy investment and whose time frame can be decades?

By Anonymous The concept of a $15bn clean energy focused fund is interesting from both a clean energy innovation perspective as well as from a capital markets and alternative investment asset class lens. The potential to commit such a large pool of capital towards funding research and innovation in the massively capital thirsty clean energy […]

Continue reading →

A Case for Government Investment in Innovation in Energy

By Lauren Burrows There is currently a debate raging in the U.S. about government’s role in investing in the clean energy industry. High profile bankruptcies such as Solyndra and A123 have convinced many that the government has no business investing in private companies, or “picking winners.” The often repeated refrain is that government should stick […]

Continue reading →