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- August 18, 2025
- Harvard Business Review Digital Articles
Boards Can Continue to Lead the Way on Climate Governance
By: Lynn S. Paine and Suraj Srinivasan
| During the past year, political and investor pushback against corporate climate efforts has intensified. Nearly 320 anti-ESG bills have been introduced across U.S. state legislatures since 2021. The U.S. SEC has all but repealed its climate-related disclosure rules,... |
- 2025
- Book
Concise Business Guide to Climate Change: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know
| Understanding the ground rules of climate change for business. Climate has changed the game for businesses around the world. With climate-related disasters costing billions in damages and public pressure rising, over a hundred nations joined the 2015 Paris Agreement,... |
- June 2025
- Teaching Material
The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades (B): The Art of Coalition Building
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
| Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 325-132. Curtis Osceola, Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida, exercised leadership to mobilize allies, deal with opposition, and forge internal and external multi-sector coalitions to help preserve... |
- June 2025
- Teaching Material
Transforming a Titan (B)
By: George Serafeim and Lena Duchene
| After a global search the board appoints Marcel Cobuz—ex-LafargeHolcim executive with deep innovation experience—as TITAN’s first non-family CEO. Cobuz co-creates a four-pillar roadmap: sharpen the core cement portfolio, accelerate low-carbon products and aggregates,... |
- June 2025
- Teaching Material
Transforming a Titan (C)
By: George Serafeim and Lena Duchene
| Three years in his tenure as CEO, Cobuz must decide whether to launch a more than 500 million carbon-capture-and-storage facility. The project—Europe’s largest planned CCS installation—would cut almost 20% of group emissions and unlock a 234 million EU Innovation Fund... |
- June 2025
- Case
Transforming a Titan (A)
By: George Serafeim and Lena Duchene
| Dimitri Papalexopoulos, fourth-generation CEO of TITAN Cement, must decide whether to keep leading the 120-year-old, family-controlled firm or hand the reins to new management. Over 26 years he has turned TITAN from a domestic player into an internationally diversified... |
- June 2025
- Teaching Material
Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization
By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel and Susan Pinckney
| Teaching note for Arla Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A), HBS No. 624-003 |
- 2025
- Working Paper
An Empirical Examination of Business Climate Alliances: Effective and/or Harmful?
By: Matteo Gasparini and Peter Tufano
| This research studies business alliances that seek to address climate change, offering empirical evidence to address claims advanced by alliance supporters and critics. We study eleven major alliances mostly focused on financial services firms and 424 major... |
- May 2025
- Teaching Material
Calyx Global: Rating Carbon Credits
By: Michael W. Toffel and Adam Chen
| Teaching note to support the Calyx Global: Ratinng Carbon Credits case (HBS No. 625-102) |
- 2025
- Working Paper
Climate Risk and the U.S. Insurance Gap: Measurement, Drivers and Implications
By: Parinitha Sastry, Tess Scharlemann, Ishita Sen and Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva
| In a world with rising risk, how much are U.S. households willing to pay for homeowners insurance, and what does their demand imply for the future of insurance markets? We provide the first estimates of household willingness to pay for homeowners insurance and the... |
- April 2025
- Teaching Material
'Care in Every Drop': Ayala Corporation and Manila Water (A) and (B)
By: Debora L. Spar and Sarah Sasso
| Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 324-038 and 324-039. |
- 2025
- Book Chapter
Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change
By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones
| This chapter explores when and why private regulatory governance systems became the primary form of global environmental governance. The chapter explores two different historical paths in such private regulation and how they came about. The first path involved... |