sustainability - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Environmental and Sustainability Issues in Real Estate

Environmental and sustainability issues in real estate from green, brown, and gray fields development to green construction and new patterns of urban planning. View Details

May–June 2000
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Sustainability and the Firm

By: F. L. Reinhardt

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business Ventures

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Sustainability in Manufacturing Industry

adoption in production from proof of concept to industrial scale and how governments and civil society can best support the development of a favorable ecosystem for adopting and diffusing technology across industry sectors. Sustainable... View Details

07 Feb 2018
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Material Sustainability Information and Stock Price Informativeness

June 2010 (Revised October 2010)
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise

By: Willy C. Shih

This Module Note for Instructors outlines the structure and content of the Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise MBA second year elective course at the Harvard Business School. The course focuses on giving students a solid grounding in the construction of... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation

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2013
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Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability

By: Rebecca Henn and Andrew J. Hoffman

Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting, and powering machines and devices in buildings. And despite decades of investment in green construction technologies, residential and... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Green Building; Transition; Social Issues

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Strategy - Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

By: Jan W. Rivkin

With the accelerating pace of competition, cutting-edge companies are defined by innovative strategies. In this Executive Education program, we explore how to develop groundbreaking stratgies and action plans for execution, forecast industry evolution, and analyze... View Details

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3 Ways Investors Can Pressure Companies to Take Sustainability Seriously

By: Mindy Lubber and George Serafeim

Keywords: Sustainability; Activism; ESG; Shareholder Activism; Investor Behavior; Climate Change; Environment; Diversity; Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability

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07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

4+2 = Sustained Business Success

success. A company that consistently follows this formula has better than a 90 percent chance of sustaining superior business performance. The 160 companies in our study—which we call the Evergreen Project—were divided into forty quads,... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson

9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 26 Jun 2019
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HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy

Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: June 26, 2019 - July 17, 2019 View Details

9 AM – 10 AM EST, 06 Feb 2019
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HBS Online Sustainable Business Strategy

Learn how to become a purpose-centered business leader while examining the critical role that businesses play in solving the world's big problems, including climate change, income inequality, and social injustice. Program Dates: February 6, 2019 - February 27, 2019 View Details

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Sustainability in the Transportation Industry

Europe's dependence on imported oil and cut carbon emissions in transport by 60% by 2050. The complete white paper may downloaded here. The European Commission is working on a comprehensive Strategy for a Sustainable and Smart... View Details

2019
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Sustaining Open Innovation Through a 'Center of Excellence'

By: Elizabeth E. Richard, Jeffrey R. Davis, Jin Hyun Paik and Karim R. Lakhani

This paper presents NASA’s experience using a Center of Excellence (CoE) to scale and sustain an open innovation program as an effective problem-solving tool and includes strategic management recommendations for other organizations based on lessons... View Details

Keywords: Crowdsourcing; Culture Change; Open Innovation; Center Of Excellence; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Change Management

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July 2007 (Revised September 2009)
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CEMEX's Foundations for Sustainability

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Pamela Yatsko and Ryan Raffaelli

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Change Management; Emerging Markets; Construction Industry; Mexico; Egypt; United States

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11 May 2023
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Keeping the Plan Sustainable

Sustainability in the Boardroom

More and more companies recognize the importance of corporate responsibility to their long-term success—and yet the matter gets short shrift in most boardrooms, consistently ranking at the bottom of some two dozen possible priorities. Many years ago labor conditions... View Details

21 Sep 2015
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A Sustainable Success Story

Robb Turner (MBA 1990) and his wife, Lydia, were looking for a place to build a family vacation retreat in 2009 when they found 800 acres of pristine hardwood forest in rural Dover Plains, New York. “The land was stunning—completely untouched,” says the cofounder of... View Details

17 Feb 2012
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Saints Beat Sinners for Sustainable Investing: Stock Chart

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Sustainable investing and ESG resources

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News and information covering the sustainable and impact investment markets. Our subscription includes the daily publication, The Brief, as well as their... View Details