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- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
| The US government plans to spend $370 billion to cut greenhouse gases and expand renewable energy—its biggest investment yet. In the wake of COP27, we asked Harvard Business School faculty members how executives could seize this moment. |
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
by Avery Forman
| Despite polarized attitudes, Rebecca Henderson argues that it's the perfect time for companies to reset their moral compass. In an essay from the book A Political Economy of Justice, she explores the social efforts of Cadbury and Unilever. |
- 2022
- Book Chapter
Interrogating Corporate Purpose: Values Based Firms and the Struggle to Build a Just and Sustainable World
| Book Abstract: Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time. If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and... |
- September 2021
- Management Science
Innovation in the 21st Century: Architectural Change, Purpose, and the Challenges of Our Time
| Understanding the process of innovation has been a central concern of management researchers, but despite this progress, there remains much that we do not understand. Deepening our knowledge is critically important given the enormous environmental and social challenges... |
- April 2021
- Teaching Material
Phillips 66 and the Washington State Carbon Tax (B)
By: Rebecca Henderson and Mariana Oseguera
- March 2021
- Case
Phillips 66 and the Washington State Carbon Tax
By: Rebecca Henderson, Mariana Oseguera and Christopher Musser
- Fall 2020
- Daedalus
Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual and the End of the World as We Know It
| How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution... |
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
by Danielle Kost
| We asked experts from the HBS Business and Environment Initiative how the coronavirus crisis might change the way companies think about sustainability. |
- May 2020
- AEA Papers and Proceedings
Tackling Climate Change Requires Organizational Purpose
By: Rebecca Henderson and George Serafeim
| Unchecked climate change presents a profound threat to economic growth and political stability but despite widespread public concern about the issue, global emissions of greenhouse gases have not declined. Indeed current “business as usual” predictions imply that... |
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
by Danielle Kost
| Tackling one of the biggest crises of our time—climate change—requires leaders to embrace a new vision of business, argues Rebecca Henderson. |
- 2020
- Book
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
| Free market capitalism is one of humanity’s greatest inventions and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But this success has been costly. Capitalism is on the verge of destroying the planet and destabilizing society as wealth rushes to the top.... |
- January 2020
- Teaching Material
Climate Change in 2020: Implications for Business
By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Sophus A. Reinert and Mariana Oseguera
| This note provides general information about climate change and its implications for business. Included is an overview of climate change science and a number of its impacts, including rising sea levels, changing weather patterns and extreme weather, pressure on water... |