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  • 22 Jul 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power

Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power Episode 7 of Climate Stories focuses on Janice Tran and her first two years as CEO and co-founder of Kanin Energy. Trained as an accountant, the... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower

Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower Retrofitting buildings in inner cities is just one element of BlocPower’s groundbreaking sustainability strategy. In this episode of Climate Stories,... View Details
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Global Harms, Local Profits: How the Uneven Costs of Natural Disasters Affect Support for Green Political Platforms

By: Silvia Pianta and Paula Rettl
Large-scale fires are becoming increasingly common due to climate change. While conventional wisdom suggests that firsthand experiences with natural disasters foster green coalitions by raising awareness of environmental degradation, we propose an alternative... View Details
Keywords: Climate Impact; Politics; Environmental Issues; Environmental Protection; Economic Analysis; Economic Behavior; Economic Geography; Economy; Economics; Climate Change; Environmental Management; Political Elections; Natural Disasters; Green Technology; Environmental Sustainability; Latin America; Brazil
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Inside the Learning: The Impact of a Personal Case

foundation for making a significant, concrete impact on the organization and the executive's growth as a leader. PARTICIPANT PERSPECTIVE For more insight into the Personal Case, view our short video featuring AMP alumna Yulia Chekunaeva,... View Details
  • 18 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

When It Comes to Climate Regulation, Energy Companies Take a More Nuanced View

Common wisdom holds that oil and gas companies, electric utilities, and other industries known for their large carbon emissions generally oppose clean energy policies. Now, a study of corporate advocacy spanning 30 years reveals that many companies are more flexible... View Details
Keywords: by Desmond Dodd; Energy; Utilities
  • 20 May 2022
  • Blog Post

Nucleate Eco: Connecting Aspiring MBA Entrepreneurs with Cutting Edge Climate Research

each other. More broadly from a climate perspective, I think programs like Nucleate are playing a critical role in accelerating the timeline for impact of new technologies. Though not every company built on... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy
  • 04 Aug 2023
  • Blog Post

Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change

challenges. In this article, we are sharing four of their remarkable stories. View Video Tackling climate change through innovation It’s not news that carbon dioxide emissions are a global concern in the fight against View Details
  • Fall 2020
  • Article

Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual and the End of the World as We Know It

By: Rebecca Henderson
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... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Business; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change

What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In “UBS and Climate Change — Warming Up to Global Action?” Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance
  • 26 Nov 2018
  • News

New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change

climate change and its impact on their industries. They want to talk about it.” Alumni explored investment risks and opportunities in climate change at HBS Club of New York... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; clubs; alumni clubs
  • 16 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)

Recently, Climate Rising, Harvard Business School’s business and climate change podcast, marked our 50th original episode. Launched in 2019, the podcast has come a long way, and “turning 50” provides an... View Details
  • 2021
  • Article

Decarbonizing Everything

By: Alex Cheema-Fox, Bridget LaPerla, George Serafeim, David Turkington and Hui (Stacie) Wang
We analyze how the use of different climate risk measures leads to different portfolio carbon outcomes and risk-adjusted returns. Our findings are synthesized in a rules-based investment framework, which selects a different type of climate metric across industries and... View Details
Keywords: Climate Risk; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Disclosure Metrics; ESG Ratings; Investing; Investing For Impact; Investment Strategy; Environment; Decarbonization; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Management; Environmental Accounting; Investment; Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return
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  • 27 Aug 2021
  • News

Vanguard Companies Tap Their Firm’s Collective Intelligence to Achieve Social Impact and Financial Success: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  • 22 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention

Climate Stories Episode #13 – Democratizing Climate Returns: Nisha Desai (HBS 1997) Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention “We’re democratizing impact investing, not just for... View Details
  • 16 Oct 2013
  • Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for... View Details
Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities
  • 07 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - COP27 and the Climate Crisis

pioneers of environmental sustainability from the private and NGO sectors who have mobilized their organizations in response to the worsening impacts of climate change: Helmy Abouleish is CEO of the SEKEM... View Details
  • 25 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

DC Alumni and BEI Present Talk on Inequality and Climate Change

(OPM 42, 2012), president of the HBSDC, and Patrick Coady (MBA 1966), who is the events chair for the club’s Environment and Climate Initiative. The conversation focused on helping business leaders and policymakers understand the... View Details
  • Web

Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners - Recruiting

questions about climate impact and financial viability, set against the backdrop of a fast-evolving sector. Why This Path? I came to HBS with the goal of transitioning from advisory roles into investment... View Details
  • October 2021
  • Supplement

Engine No. 1: An Activist Hedge Fund Pursues Stakeholder Capitalism (B)

By: Mark Kramer
Engine Number 1's proxy fight succeeded in part because Exxon shareholders had lost money in the preceding years and because climate change was a high-profile issue. The B case raises the question of whether Engine No. 1's next target should be Facebook, where social... View Details
Keywords: Proxy Fight; Hedge Fund Activism; Social Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Goals and Objectives
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