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Deep-dive slide decks
Wagner et al. “Mining for the Energy Transition” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 10 April 2026.
Wagner et al. "Geothermal Power" Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 10 March 2026.
Wagner et al. "Geothermal Heating & Cooling" Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 10 March 2026.
Kim et al. “Powering Data” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 23 January 2026.
Lucha et al. “Biofueling Transport” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 19 November 2025.
Kim et al. “Capturing Carbon” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 7 November 2025.
Sayn-Wittgenstein et al. “Reconsidering Proteins” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 6 October 2025.
Houwink et al. “Reenergizing Nuclear” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 23 September 2025.
Kim et al. “Scaling Solar” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 20 March 2025.
Kim et al. “Reconsidering Wind” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 5 March 2025.
Lucha et al. “Storing Energy” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 4 March 2025.
Sayn-Wittgenstein et al. “Greening Hydrogen” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 12 December 2024.
Kim et al. “Decarbonizing Cement” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 17 October 2024.
de Boer et al. “Decarbonizing Steel” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 17 October 2024.
Insights articles
Hoyos, Isabel, Zacharia Thurston, and Gernot Wagner. “Mining for the Energy Transition” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 10 April 2026.
Gilbert, Katie, and Gernot Wagner. "Geothermal Energy: Five Key Insights from Industry Leaders" Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 10 March 2026.
Farchi Behar, Ariela, Isabel Hoyos, and Gernot Wagner. “The Race to Power Data Centers” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 23 January 2026.
Hoyos, Isabel, Helen Kim, Birru Lucha, and Gernot Wagner. “Biofuels as an interim solution for hard-to-electrify sectors” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 20 November 2025.
Hoyos, Isabel, Helen Kim, Maitreyi Menon, and Gernot Wagner. “Carbon Capture's ‘Yes, and’ Role in Climate Action” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 7 November 2025.
Gilbert, Katie. “Hard to Abate, Impossible to Ignore: How Green Steel and Low-Carbon Cement Are Cleaning Up Heavy Industry” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 10 October 2025.
Gilbert, Katie, and Gernot Wagner. “Reenergizing Nuclear Power: Key Insights from Industry Leaders” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 23 September 2025.
Behrndt, Anika, Isabel Hoyos, and Gernot Wagner. “Early Investment in Decarbonization Can Help Save Trillions in Climate Costs” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 10 September 2025.
Hoyos, Isabel, Hyae Ryung (Helen) Kim, and Gernot Wagner. “China’s Phase-Out of Solar Feed-in Tariffs Is a Sign of a Mature Sector, Not a Waning One” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 14 August 2025.
Wagner, Gernot. “Climate Security Is Energy Security” Project Syndicate, 11 August 2025.
Hoyos, Isabel, Hyae Ryung (Helen) Kim, and Gernot Wagner. “America's Clean Energy Transition Will Continue Despite the One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 16 July 2025.
Wagner, Gernot, and David Wei. “Trump Wants U.S. Energy Dominance; Solar Is the Way to Get There” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 11 June 2025.
Gilbert, Katie, Isabel Hoyos, and Gernot Wagner. “Decarbonizing Protein: Three Levers That Could Transform the Industry” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 23 May 2025.
Hoyos, Isabel, and Gernot Wagner. “How States Like Texas Are Driving the Clean Energy Boom in the Trump Era” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 24 March 2025.
Gilbert, Katie, and Gernot Wagner. “Can Wind Energy Compete? Three Key Takeaways on Its Future” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 11 March 2025.
Gilbert, Katie, and Gernot Wagner. “The Future of Energy Storage: Five Key Insights on Battery Innovation and the Clean Energy Shift” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 5 March 2025.
Wagner, Gernot. “The Climate Policy Pendulum” Project Syndicate, 22 January 2025.
Gilbert, Katie, and Gernot Wagner. “Greening Hydrogen: Challenges, Innovations, and Opportunities” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 16 December 2024.
Gilbert, Katie, and Gernot Wagner. “Decarbonizing Cement: Six Key Points from Industry Leaders” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 4 October 2024.
Gilbert, Katie, and Gernot Wagner. “Scaling Solar for a Renewable Energy Future: Key Challenges and Opportunities” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 4 October 2024.
Gilbert, Katie, and Gernot Wagner. “Decarbonizing Steel: Four Key Points from Industry Leaders” Columbia Business School Climate Knowledge Initiative, 29 February 2024.
Bataille, Chris, and Gernot Wagner. “What Steel Decarbonization Needs” Project Syndicate, 22 November 2023.
Financial Times case studies
Wagner, Gernot. “Business school teaching case study: How does a multinational become a B Corp?” Financial Times, 29 July 2025.
Wagner, Gernot. “Business school teaching case study: Who pays for cutting carbon out of making cement?” Financial Times, 20 May 2025.
Wagner, Gernot. “Business school teaching case study: How can Ørsted overcome its US challenges?” Financial Times, 11 March 2025.
Wagner, Gernot. “Business school teaching case study: how should solar-panel makers respond to falling prices?” Financial Times, 11 February 2025.
Wagner, Gernot. “Business school teaching case study: capture or cut carbon to make steel greener?” Financial Times, 7 October 2024.
Columbia CaseWorks case studies
Wagner, Gernot. “Marvel Fusion” Columbia CaseWorks #260304 (25 September 2025).
Wagner, Gernot. “Danone: Redefining Corporate Responsibility” Columbia CaseWorks #250314 (14 May 2025).
Usher, Bruce, and Gernot Wagner. “LONGi and the Green Hydrogen Opportunity” Columbia CaseWorks #250313 (6 May 2025).
Usher, Bruce, and Gernot Wagner. “LONGi: Facing Strategic Challenges in the Solar PV Sector” Columbia CaseWorks #250311 (26 February 2025).
Wagner, Gernot. “Vehicle-to-Grid Technology and Network Effects” Columbia CaseWorks #250310, 24 February 2025.
Usher, Bruce, and Gernot Wagner. “Illuminate: Onshoring the US Solar Supply Chain?” Columbia CaseWorks #250309, 5 February 2025.
Heal, Geoffrey, Bruce Usher, and Gernot Wagner. “Ørsted’s Case for Offshore Wind” Columbia CaseWorks #250308, 24 January 2025.
Wagner, Gernot. “Stegra: Green Hydrogen Steel” Columbia CaseWorks #240307, 18 September 2024.
Heal, Geoffrey, Bruce Usher, and Gernot Wagner. “ELP Greenport: Scaling Community Solar” Columbia CaseWorks #240306, 20 June 2024.
Wagner, Gernot. “Stripe Climate: Creating a Market for Carbon Removal” Columbia CaseWorks #240305, 5 April 2024.
Wagner, Gernot. “Electra: Decarbonizing steelmaking through carbon-free iron” Columbia CaseWorks #240303, 14 February 2024.
Wagner, Gernot. “Clean Core Thorium Energy and the Role of Nuclear Power in the Low-carbon Transition” Columbia CaseWorks #230307, Spring 2023.
Wagner, Gernot. “Decarbonizing Voestalpine High-Performance Metal” Columbia CaseWorks #230306, Spring 2023.