Harish Hande
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Harish Hande is an engineering graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He earned his doctorate in energy engineering at the University of Massachusetts, specializing in solar energy. Hande originally started his PhD thesis in heat transfer, but changed his academic focus after visiting the Dominican Republic and observing areas with poverty worse than India using solar energy. Upon returning to Massachusetts, he abandoned his heat transfer thesis and started anew on solar electrification in rural areas, conducting much of his research in India, Sri Lanka and the Dominican Republic. He is recognized as an international expert in the field of renewable energy.

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Scale of Replication

Posted January 27, 2012 | 01/27/12 10:17 AM ET

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Social entrepreneurs are constantly challenged on the question of scale up. One always hears, “You need to scale up,” or “When will you really scale?”. In turn, I ask these same people questions to go deeper into the issue, so that they can better...

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Why I Disagree With Professor Porter

1 Comments | Posted January 26, 2012 | 01/26/12 02:28 PM ET

Today, I heard Mr. Porter talk in a session about the mantra of making money as the central theme to doing "social good." He kept saying how one could scale up quickly and make a lot of money. He said capitalism is the only way of measuring...

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