Alumni

Think Tank on Energy, the Environment, and Business: Leadership for Action in Time and at Scale

March 3 – 5, 2010
Harvard Business School Campus

Presented by
The Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University
Harvard Business School
The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship

• Agenda

  Wednesday, March 3, 2010

  6:00 and 6:30 p.m. Shuttle departs Charles Hotel for HBS Campus

  6:00 – 7:30 p.m. | Welcome Reception | Williams Room, Spangler Center

  7:00 and 7:30 p.m. Shuttle departs HBS campus for Charles Hotel

  Thursday, March 4, 2010
  Conference sessions will take place in Aldrich 112

  7:45 a.m. | Shuttle departs Charles Hotel for HBS campus

  8:00 – 8:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast and Registration

  8:30 – 9:30 a.m. | Welcome and Introductory Remarks

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Bill Sahlman,
  Harvard Business School

  9:30 – 10:30 a.m. | The State of the Science

  Dr. Samuel Myers, Harvard Medical School
  Daniel Schrag, Harvard University

  10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Break

  11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Panel: Shaping Policy

  Moderator: Susan Leal, 2010 Senior ALI Fellow, formerly San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
  Douglas Foy, Serrafix, Inc.
  Nancy Kontou, European Commission
  Robert Stavins, Harvard University
  Trip Van Noppen, Earthjustice

  12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch | Williams Room, Spangler Center

  1:00 – 2:00 p.m. | Panel: Remaking Energy at Scale: Issues and Opportunities

  Moderator: Forest Reinhardt, Harvard Business School
  James Hackett, Anadarko Petroleum Company
  Kevin Knobloch, Union of Concerned Scientists
  James E. Rogers, Duke Energy
  Timothy E. Wirth, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund

  2:00 – 2:30 p.m. | Break

  2:30 – 3:30 p.m. | Panel: Reshaping Demand at Scale: Issues and Opportunities

  Moderator: Arthur Segel, Harvard Business School
  Henry Chow, 2010 ALI Fellow, formerly IBM Greater China
  Dayna Cunningham, Community Innovators Lab, MIT
  Ken Hubbard, Hines
  Meghan McDermott, Robert A.M. Stern Architects

  3:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Breakout Sessions

  4:30 – 5:30 p.m. | Breakout Summary

  6:00 – 6:30 p.m. | Reception | Williams Room, Spangler Center

  6:30 – 8:00 p.m. | Dinner | Williams Room, Spangler Center

  Keynote speaker: Jay Light, Dean, Harvard Business School

  8:00 p.m. | Special Guest Speaker | Aldrich 112

  Edward J. Markey, U.S. House of Representatives; Chairman, The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming

  Shuttle departs HBS campus for Charles Hotel at close of program

  Friday, March 5, 2010
  Conference sessions will take place in Aldrich 112

  7:45am | Shuttle departs Charles Hotel for HBS campus

  8:00 – 8:30am | Continental Breakfast and Registration

  8:30 – 9:00 a.m. | Introduction

  Bill Sahlman, Harvard Business School

  9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | Panel: Where is the VC/PE Model Working—and Not Working—and Why?

  Moderator: Bill Sahlman, Harvard Business School
  John Lushetsky, U.S. Department of Energy
  Ajit Nazre, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  William Nesbitt, Good Energies Inc.
  David Prend, RockPort Capital Partners

  10:00 – 10:30 a.m. | Break

  10:30 – 11:45 a.m. | Panel: Customers, Partners & the Challenge of Scaling

  Moderator: Joe Lassiter, Harvard Business School
  Alan Greenshields, Fortu PowerCell
  Craig A. Huff, Reservoir Capital
  Jeff Kupfer, Atlas Energy
  Michael Skelly, Clean Line Energy Partners

  12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch | Williams Room, Spangler Center

  1:00 – 2:30 p.m. | Panel: Leadership for Multi-Stakeholder Solutions

  Moderator: Rebecca Henderson, Harvard Business School
  Mindy Lubber, Ceres
  Jonathan Rose, Jonathan Rose Companies
  Ray Rothrock, Venrock
  David Vieau, A123 Systems

  2:30 – 3:15 p.m. | Closing Discussion

  Rebecca Henderson, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Forest Reinhardt and Bill Sahlman, Harvard Business School

  3:15 – 5:00 p.m. | Closing Reception
  Attendees and Student Clubs from HBS and MIT

  3:30 p.m. | Shuttle departs HBS campus for Logan Airport

  5:00 p.m. | Shuttle departs HBS campus for Logan Airport

• Faculty Chairs & Steering Committee

  Faculty Chairs

  Rebecca Henderson, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, Harvard Business School

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Faculty Chair and Director, Advanced Leadership Initiative, Harvard University; Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

  Joe Lassiter, MBA Class of 1954 Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School

  Forest Reinhardt, Faculty, Advanced Leadership Initiative, Harvard University; John D. Black Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

  Mike Roberts, MBA 1983, DBA 1986, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Executive Director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, Harvard Business School

  Bill Sahlman, MBA 1975, PHDBE 1982, Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff — MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean for External Relations, Harvard Business School

  Steering Committee

  Sandy Apgar, MBA 1968, Woodrow Wilson Center & Former Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment
  Jim Breyer, MBA 1987, Accel Partners
  Kenneth Colburn, ALI Fellow, Board of Mechanology, Inc.
  Samir Kaul, MBA 2002, Khosla Ventures
  Susan Leal, ALI Fellow, formerly San Francisco Public Utilities Commission
  Paul Maeder, MBA 1984, Highland Capital Partners
  Hans-Ulrich Maerki, ALI Fellow, formerly IBM
  Ajit Nazre, MBA 1998, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
  David Prend, MBA 1984, Rockport Capital Partners LP
  Ray Rothrock, MBA 1988, Venrock
  L.E. Simmons, MBA 1972, SCF Partners
  Don Young, MBA 1984, Aspen Aerogels

• Executive Summaries

  Executive Summaries Book

  Download the complete set of panel discussions, speakers' remarks, and presenter biographies here (48 pgs; pdf), or click on the individual panel sessions below.

  Panel Summaries

  The State of the Science, Panel: Samuel Myers, Daniel Schrag (pdf)

  Shaping Policy, Panel: Susan Leal, moderator; Douglas Foy, Nancy Kontou, Robert Stavins, Trip Van Noppen (pdf)

  Remaking Energy at Scale: Issues and Opportunities, Panel: Forest Reinhardt, moderator; James Hackett, Kevin Knobloch, James E. Rogers, Timothy E. Wirth (pdf)

  Reshaping Demand at Scale: Issues and Opportunities, Panel: Arthur Segel, moderator; Henry Chow, Dayna Cunningham, Kenneth W. Hubbard, Meghan McDermott (pdf)

  Keynote, Dean Jay Light (pdf)

  Special Guest Speaker, Cong. Edward J. Markey (pdf)

  Where Is the VC/PE Model Working—and Not Working—and Why?, Panel: Bill Sahlman, moderator; John Lushetsky, Ajit Nazre, William Nesbitt, David Prend (pdf)

  Customers, Partners & the Challenge of Scaling, Panel: Joe Lassiter, moderator; Alan Greenshields, Craig A. Huff, Jeff Kupfer, Michael Skelly (pdf)

  Leadership for Multi-Stakeholder Solutions, Panel: Rebecca Henderson, moderator; Mindy Lubber, Jonathan Rose, Ray Rothrock, David Vieau (pdf)

  ALI Narrative

  Energy, the Environment, and Business: Filling Leadership Gaps in Green Energy and Climate Change, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Matthew Bird (pdf)

• Presentation Materials

  Panelist Presentations

  Building Green Businesses Field Study Seminar 2010, Lee Fleming, Rebecca Henderson, Janet Kraus, Joe Lassiter, John Macomber, Forest Reinhardt; Harvard Business School (pdf)

  Climate Change Policy After Copenhagen, Robert Stavins, Harvard University (pdf)

  Confronting the Climate-Energy Challenge, Dan Schrag, Harvard University (pdf)

  From Cooking Food to Cooking the Planet: Are We Playing with Fire? Samuel S. Myers, MD, MPH, Harvard Medical School (pdf)

  Where Is the VC/PE Model Working-and Not Working-and Why? Bill Sahlman, Harvard Business School (pdf)

  Related Materials

  Advanced Leadership Initiative and Fellowship, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School and Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative (pdf)

• Readings & Resources

  The State of Science

  Acting in Time on Energy Policy: Making Carbon Capture and Storage Work, Daniel P. Schrag, Brookings Institution Press, 2009 (pdf)

  Coal as a low-carbon fuel?, Dan Schrag, Nature Geoscience, December 2009 (pdf)

  Confronting the Climate-Energy Challenge, Daniel P. Schrag, Elements, June 2007 (pdf)

  Global Environmental Change: The Threat to Human Health, Samuel S. Myers, Worldwatch Institute, 2009 (pdf)

  Storage of Carbon Dioxide in Offshore Sediments, Daniel P. Schrag, et al., Science, September 2009 (pdf)

  Shaping Policy

  Designing the Post-Kyoto Climate Regime: Lessons from the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins, Harvard University, November 2008

  How Economists See the Environment, Don Fullerton and Robert Stavins, Nature, October 1998

  Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?, Jim Heskett, HBS Working Knowledge, January 2010

  Pathways to a Low-Carbon Economy, McKinsey & Company, January 2009

  2020: A low-carbon roadmap, Exelon Corporation, 2008 (pdf)

  What's the Proper Role of Individuals and Institutions in Addressing Climate Change?, Robert Stavins, Blog: An Economic View of the Environment, March 2010

  Remaking Energy at Scale

  The year climate science caught up with what top scientists have been saying privately for years, Climate Progress, January 2010

  Reshaping Demand at Scale

  Emerald City Collaborative Community: Partnership with Communities, November 2009 (pdf)

  Green and beyond: Getting smarter about the environment, IBM Institute for Business Value, 2009 (pdf)

  Hines Corporate Sustainability Summary (pdf)

  Hines: Setting the standard for a sustainable future, 2009 (pdf)

  PlaNYC and the Green Urban Vision, Occulus, Fall 2009 (pdf)

  Robert A.M. Stern Architects: Sustainable Design brochure (pdf)

  Where is the VC/PE Model Working—and Not Working—and Why?

  Restoring American Competitiveness, Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih, Harvard Business Review, July-August 2009 (pdf)

  Leadership for Multi-stakeholder Solutions

  Jonathan Rose Companies Project Sheets (pdf):
  ~ David and Joyce Dinkins Gardens, Harlem, New York
  ~ Denver Dry Goods Building, Denver, Colorado
  ~ Erbograph Apartments, Harlem, New York
  ~ Castle Gardens, Harlem, New York
  ~ Gowanus Green, Brooklyn, New York
  ~ Harlem RBI, New York, New York
  ~ Highlands' Garden Village, Denver, Colorado
  ~ Metro Green Apartments, Stamford, Connecticut
  ~ Via Verde / The Green Way, Bronx, New York
  ~ Silver Gardens Apartments - Phase I, Albuquerque, New Mexico
  ~ Tapestry, Harlem, New York
  ~ 107-145 West 135th Street, Harlem, New York

  Murky Waters: Corporate Reporting on Water Risk, Ceres, February 2010 (pdf)

  The New York City Greener, Greater Buildings Plan, The City of New York, 2010

  Investors Analyze Climate Risks and Opportunities: A Survey of Asset Managers' Practices, Investor Network on Climate Risk, January 2010 (pdf)

  Related Resources

  Global Business Summit: Business and the Environment executive summary, Harvard Business School, October 2008

  HBS Business & Environment website

  HBS Green Business Alumni Association website

  The Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, U.S. House of Representatives

  Building Green Businesses Field Study Seminar 2010, Lee Fleming, Rebecca Henderson, Janet Kraus, Joe Lassiter, John Macomber, Forest Reinhardt (pdf)

Questions
Please contact William Weber at wweber@hbs.edu or 617.495.6019.