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• Case | HBS Case Collection | February 2020 (Revised March 2020)

  Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation

  Ramana Nanda, Benjamin N. Roth and Olivia Hull

  With long development timelines and high risk, new energy technologies were often left to languish in the “valley of death,” unable to raise enough funds to bring a product to market. In 2014, Sarah Kearney founded the nonprofit Prime Coalition to solve this problem. At the beginning, Prime’s role as a financial intermediary involved seeking out the most promising market-based technology solutions to climate change and recruiting foundations or philanthropists to fund them. In 2019, Prime changed course, adopting a portfolio approach with its Prime Impact Fund. By the end of the year, Prime had raised $40 million in philanthropic capital for its new fund. Once the funds were invested in promising energy startups, Prime planned to try its hand at recruiting traditional investors to back the same companies. Could Kearney convince traditional investors that these investments were worth the risks?

  Keywords: Energy Conservation; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Mission and Purpose; Science-Based Business; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States;

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  Nanda, Ramana, Benjamin N. Roth, and Olivia Hull. "Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 820-007, February 2020. (Revised March 2020.)  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | July 2001 (Revised March 2020)

  Medtronic: Patient Management Initiative (A)

  Regina E. Herzlinger and Mark P. Allyn

  Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;

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  Herzlinger, Regina E., and Mark P. Allyn. "Medtronic: Patient Management Initiative (A)." Harvard Business School Case 302-005, July 2001. (Revised March 2020.)  View Details

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• Supplement | HBS Case Collection | September 2008 (Revised March 2020)

  Medtronic: Patient Management Initiative (B)

  Regina E. Herzlinger

  The (B) case provides the denouement to the (A) case about Medtronic's introduction of the Chronicle and remote monitoring business.

  Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Technology; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;

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  Herzlinger, Regina E. "Medtronic: Patient Management Initiative (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 309-064, September 2008. (Revised March 2020.)  View Details

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