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Construction: environmental building, materials

technologies. (HU PIN) Frost & Sullivan contains technology insight alerts and market reports. (HBS Intranet) REIS - Property profile includes a section on climate risk. Related links: Energy -- a topical section in Fast... View Details

Michel C. Bergerac

Bergerac devoted his energies to increasing the distribution of the company’s core cosmetics lines, which were suffering at the hands of fierce competition. Marketing and advertising schemes became more elaborate but paid off for Revlon,... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

03 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

Spencer Stuart, directed by Julie Hembrock Daum; and independent researcher and management consultant Deborah Bell. The team worked for over a year before that to identify board members from more than 60 countries, in industries including consumer staples, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Aug 2015
News

The Play Alchemist

rely on dirty or dangerous energy sources like kerosene lamps and diesel generators. The Soccket is not unlike Matthews herself: a bundle of energy using play to change the world. Creating things seems to... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

26 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

of the energy company Cinergy, has led the company from the brink of bankruptcy to one of the premier energy companies through selecting a focused strategy, aligning the organization to support it, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jul 2019
News

Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs

made significant investments in Nigeria’s energy infrastructure. “It is helping hospitals; it’s helping homes; it’s helping enterprise,” he says. Elumelu is passing this philosophy on to the next generation through the Tony Elumelu... View Details

01 Mar 2006
News

Venture Capital, Post-Dot Bomb

alternative energy solutions were beginning to show a higher investment profile. “Venture capitalists haven’t traditionally been interested in that area,” said Stan Reiss (MBA ’00), a general partner at Matrix Partners. “But given the... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

commercial-building energy intensity. This is why improving HVAC efficiency is one of the largest opportunities for reducing commercial-building carbon emissions. Sorbent Ventilation Technology improves HVAC efficiency by cleaning indoor... View Details

Portrait Project

Michael Nkansah

raised three PhDs. I want to be useful. To enable Africans to connect and trade with one another. To unleash the energy of commerce. And partake in the taming of a continent. View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

Start It Up

MOOREHEAD: A green start-up designed to reduce the human and monetary costs of war. While serving in different parts of the world as a Navy SEAL, Doug Moorehead (MBA 2007) observed firsthand the human and material cost of energy... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Mar 2007
News

Eyeing the Dominoes?

conservative, who won reelection in a Democratic city by nearly 20 percentage points, the AP article stated. His personal wealth frees him from many of the fundraising obligations, and the time and energy they demand, that occupy other... View Details

Keywords: American presidency; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

June 2010 (Revised July 2011)
Case

China Environment Fund: Doing Well by Doing Good

By: Christopher Marquis and Nancy Dai

In early 2010, cleantech investment pioneer Tsing Capital was planning for the China Environment Fund IV and considering how to maintain its commitment to social and environmental practices. Tsing Capital embraced its philosophy of "Doing Well by Doing Good" and... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Strategy; Balance and Stability; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Business Organization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Venture Capital; Financial Services Industry; China

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Educators

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01 Sep 2011
News

Now You Can Choose

excited about the evolution of the MBA Program and the level of energy and innovation evident throughout the School. Maybe you’re wondering how you can help spur on the School’s ambitious and exciting agenda. New this year, alumni can... View Details

Keywords: Paul Finnegan; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

26 Dec 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards

Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel, Jodi L. Short & Melissa Ouellet

March 2024
Article

Establishing the Foundation for Carbon Trading Markets

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna and Marc Roston

Poor measurement practices and inadequate controls have led to extensive trading of carbon offset instruments that do not materially reduce the supply of atmospheric GHG. We introduce five carbon offset accounting principles, built from fundamental financial-accounting... View Details

Keywords: Carbon Offsetting; Accounting; Carbon Accounting; E-liabilities; Measurement; Trading; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Sustainability

Citation

Read Now

01 Jun 2013
News

Start Me Up

business or a social enterprise track, the fledgling companies pitched everything from early-stage Alzheimer's diagnosis technology to environmentally friendly lodging. Below, the four that the competition's alumni judges—plucked from the start-up and nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; infographic

10 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Pay for Environmental Performance: The Effect of Incentive Provision on Carbon Emissions

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou, Shelley Xin Li & George Serafeim

Portrait Project

Michael Lage

in yet another MarioKart race in his hospital room. Or the gleam in his eye when he told me he was going to beat me in the race to Heaven. He did. And though Tim lost his life, he forever changed mine. I want to change lives through that same light. To be the spark of... View Details

08 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

Offshore Wind Energy in the USA Harvard Business School Case 708-022 Cape Wind is an extreme example of NIMBY—not in my backyard syndrome. This is the first offshore wind project planned for the United States, in Nantucket Sound, just... View Details