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- 21 Apr 2017
- News
Harvard Business School Celebrates Climate Week
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental...
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by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2023
- Video
Beyond Business as Usual: Climate Disruptors
Scotland's 2020 Climate Group Keynote Lecture
Lassiter acknowledged Scotland’s renewable resources and urged the country to use them wisely in order to further the commitment to the reduction of carbon emissions. Comparing climate change to a ‘spinning roulette wheel’ he covered areas as diverse as nuclear...
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- 18 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale
Symposium, held on HBS campus on November 19th, 2023, facilitated conversation and reflection between leaders in the spheres of technology, business, and government with a focus on how to tackle the issues of climate View Details
- 02 Nov 2022
- News
McKinsey's Climate Consulting
- July 2023
- Article
Political Strategies for Climate and Environmental Solutions
By: Jonas Meckling and Valerie Karplus
Many of the barriers to progress in addressing environmental problems, such as climate change, are political. We argue that politics should not be seen only as a constraint but be recognized as a target of intervention to advance environmental solutions. We use the...
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Meckling, Jonas, and Valerie Karplus. "Political Strategies for Climate and Environmental Solutions." Nature Sustainability 6, no. 7 (July 2023): 742–751.
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis
Talking About Climate Change in the MBA Classroom Cause or solution? Risk or opportunity? How business leaders should own up to and tackle climate change is at the forefront of...
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- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
wildfires, floods, and droughts–and their resulting destruction of lives and properties–sends a clear signal that all members of society must drastically accelerate efforts to both mitigate further climate View Details
- February 2023
- Article
National Models of Climate Governance Among Major Emitters
By: Johnathan Guy, Esther Shears and Jonas Meckling
National climate institutions structure the process of climate mitigation policymaking and shape climate policy ambition and performance. Countries have, for example, been building science bodies, passing climate laws and creating new agencies. Here we provide the...
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Guy, Johnathan, Esther Shears, and Jonas Meckling. "National Models of Climate Governance Among Major Emitters." Nature Climate Change 13, no. 2 (February 2023): 189–195.
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)
career, which is more than most can stand. In other words, you can’t know how much money you might make before the bubble bursts. That is so commercially painful that the big investment firms are almost never bearish except for now, which is very unusual. Looking...
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- February 2020 (Revised March 2020)
- Case
Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation
By: 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....
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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
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.)
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By: John C. Mulliken
My research involves climate strategy, climate finance, and building climate technology ventures.
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Climate;
Climate Risk;
Climate Finance;
Governance;
Climate Change;
Strategy;
Retail Industry
- January 2011 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change (Abridged)
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
Arcadia Biosciences is seeking to introduce genetically modified rice to China that will lower farmers' costs and generate environmental benefits through reduced greenhouse gas emissions. The case describes challenges facing this small agricultural biotechnology...
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Plant-Based Agribusiness;
Intellectual Property;
Genetics;
Environmental Sustainability;
Science-Based Business;
Climate Change;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
China
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "Arcadia Biosciences: Seeds of Change (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 711-050, January 2011. (Revised July 2012.)
- 05 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Student Conferences at HBS: The 2021 Climate Symposium
was the impetus behind having a combined student club conference on climate change? Though our three different clubs formed separately and organically over the years, the interconnectedness of the various pillars of View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
The week before starting at 500 Global, Enan was still recovering from two intensive weeks at COP27, the UN Climate Change Conference held last year in Sharm El-Sheikh. As a host-country representative for...
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- 16 Mar 2023
- News