Ned Harvey is a Managing Director at Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) responsible for leading its Carbon War Room Business unit.
Carbon War Room intervenes in markets to accelerate the adoption of business solutions that reduce carbon emissions at gigaton scale and advance the low carbon economy. CWR was Founded as a global NGO by Sir Richard Branson and a group of likeminded entrepreneurs in 2009 and in 2014 the Carbon War Room merged with Rocky Mountain Institute. CWR now operates as an independent RMI business unit, and together the combined organization engages businesses, communities, institutions, and entrepreneurs to cost-effectively reduce carbon emissions and shift to efficiency and renewables. The organization has offices in Snowmass and Boulder, Colorado, New York City, Washington D.C., and Beijing.
BACKGROUND
Ned’s 8 year tenure at RMI and CWR leverages his twenty years of diverse business leadership experience. Prior to moving into the CWR unit, Ned led the execution of the institute’s alliance with the Carbon War Room. Prior positions at RMI include serving as the institute’s Chief Operating Officer, Program Director for the Solar Market Transformation Program and head of Development.
Ned also founded and led several Renewable Energy Development companies and served as an executive for a global consultancy. In his early career, Ned spent eight years as an officer in the United States Navy, serving aboard nuclear submarines and in the Tomahawk cruise missile program office.
EDUCATION & AWARDS
MBA, Harvard Business School
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering,University of California at San Diego.
Ned serves on the boards for the Harvard Business School Club of Colorado and the Colorado Clean Tech Industry Association.
LOCATION
Boulder, CO
TWITTER HANDLE
@NedLeeHarvey
Authored Works
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Penny-wise and pound-foolish is a great phrase to describe the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) plan to ease rules put in place to reduce harmful methane emissions from the oil and gas industry. While potentially saving money in the short term, a rollback of these policies and regulations is shortsighted and…
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Today is Colorado Gives Day, and in recent weeks I’ve been thinking about what RMI’s mission means to Colorado, and why Coloradans are so generous in their support of Rocky Mountain Institute.
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By most measures, the U.S. solar industry is doing very well with gross installation rates, growing by at least 2x per year for the past several years. Yet, sustaining recent growth rates—or even accelerating the market’s pace—is far from guaranteed.
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Thanks to all of you who were able to join us live at our “Solar Issues of the Day: Customer Acquisition” Google hangout …particularly if you originally intended to attend the earlier broadcast which was hijacked by technical gremlins...and to those of you who viewed the archived video later.
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Last week, I participated in the Clinton Global Initiative America conference, (CGI America) in Chicago. Now in its second year, CGI America is an annual event focused on finding solutions that promote economic recovery in the United States.
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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about innovation, especially about how it might spread through the global energy system. I’m especially interested in how entrepreneurs and new technologies may create disruptive innovation within the system and what that’s likely to look like.
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The leadership of the solar industry let out a collective gasp of relief Tuesday. While it seems that tariffs will be imposed on China’s exports of photovoltaic cells, at least for now they are relatively minimal. Yet it’s still a fragile time for the industry and anything that raises cost within the supply chain or to the end customer needs to be viewed as a potential threat to continued market expansion.
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If you've have heard about Reinventing Fire, Rocky Mountain Institute's roadmap for a secure, renewable energy future, and are like almost everyone with whom I have talked about it, you wonder where to start. This blog is the first of several by RMI staff to help business leaders identify the steps they can take now to begin seizing the economic and competitive opportunities available by leading in the new energy era.
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This post originally published on the BSR Blog [http://www.bsr.org/en/our-insights/blog-view/in-your-words-rmis-ned-harvey-on-leadership]. Ned Harvey is the chief operating officer and vice president of finance at the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), an independent, entrepreneurial, nonprofit think-and-do tank.
