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    George Serafeim

    George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he co-leads the Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab within the Digital, Data, and Design Institute. He teaches the MBA course “Risks, Opportunities,... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology
    • 16 Feb 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

    Administration at Harvard Business School. “This is technology that's going to help us to abate these issues around energy and climate, and it's the best technology in that space.” The spectacular rise of sustainable View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy
    • February 2022
    • Supplement

    Agora (B)

    By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn
    This is the conclusion to Agora (A), where founder Elsa Sze decides if she wants to continue investing energy in her civic technology startup.
    Agora was a civic technology (civic tech) startup founded by Elsa Sze, who wanted to enhance the connection between... View Details
    Keywords: Civic Technology; Government Administration; Conferences; Business Startups; Business Strategy
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    • May 2023
    • Article

    Decarbonizing Health Care: Engaging Leaders in Change

    By: Vivian S. Lee, Kathy Gerwig, Emily Hough, Kedar Mate, Robert Biggio and Robert S. Kaplan
    Health care leaders are often surprised to learn that their operations contribute significantly to a warming climate. In addition to their roles as responders to and victims of extreme weather events, health care organizations have an obligation to reduce... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Decarbonization; Carbon Emissions; Net-zero Emissions; Climate Change; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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      Jim Matheson

      Jim joined the HBS Faculty in 2019 and teaches the EC courses Entrepreneurial Finance and Tough Tech Ventures and is a faculty affiliate of the Business & Environment Initiative.  He is an active investor, and Board director & advisor for... View Details

      • 03 Feb 2021
      • Blog Post

      Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss

      After more than two decades in consulting, Jurgen Weiss joined the Harvard Business School faculty in 2020 as a member of the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit. He currently teaches the first year BGIE core course and is developing an View Details

        Christina R. Wing

        Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

        • 04 May 2012
        • Working Paper Summaries

        No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events

        Keywords: by Jiao Luo, Stephan Meier & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
        • September 2023 (Revised March 2024)
        • Case

        ReMo Energy: Sizing Up Investors

        By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Tom Quinn
        In 2023, executives with ReMo Energy (founded 2020) were deciding which size ammonia plant to build as their first project. Their innovative model produced ammonia—useful for making fertilizer and for energy storage—from renewable energy, and they had received funding... View Details
        Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Startups; Cost vs Benefits; Design; Energy Conservation; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Goods and Commodities; Size; Infrastructure; Risk and Uncertainty; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Technological Innovation; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; United States; Boston
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        • March 2002 (Revised July 2004)
        • Case

        Price of Light, The: Privatization, Regulation and Valuation in Brazil

        Asks students to produce a valuation for Rio Light, a Brazilian power company that is state owned and to be sold in March 1996. If successful, the privatization would bring in over $2 billion to the Brazilian treasury. But success was far from assured. Members of the... View Details
        Keywords: Valuation; Energy Generation; Privatization; Corporate Governance; Energy Industry; Brazil
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        • June 2024
        • Supplement

        Climate Governance at Linde plc (B)

        By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain
        In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainability committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas supplier, with a workforce of... View Details
        Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; United States; Germany; Europe; North America; London
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        • Research Summary

        Overview

        By: Brian L. Trelstad
        The focus of my research is on the systems of social innovation. How small groups of individuals come up with new products and services targeting important problems; how they finance these initial efforts, and convert prototypes into viable organizational strategies;... View Details
        Keywords: (General) Management; Social Business; Non-profit Management; Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Entrepreneurial Finance; System Dynamics; Non-profit; Evaluation; Impact Investing; Venture Philanthropy; Social Enterprise Initiative; Advanced Leadership Initiative; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Social Enterprise; Civil Society or Community; System; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Energy Industry
        • 09 Nov 2022
        • In Practice

        COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

        The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
        Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
        • June 2024 (Revised December 2024)
        • Case

        Climate Governance at Linde plc (A)

        By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain
        In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainability committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas supplier, with a workforce of... View Details
        Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry; United States; Germany; Europe; North America; London
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        • Profile

        Lauren Burrows

        most enjoyed about your career thus far? At WindSail we invest in early commercial companies that are focused on energy innovation and sustainability. We do this in a unique way that enables growth while... View Details
        Keywords: Energy / Extractive Minerals; Energy / Extractive Minerals; Energy / Extractive Minerals; Energy / Extractive Minerals
        • March 2015 (Revised May 2018)
        • Case

        JPMorgan Chase: Tapping an Overlooked Talent Pool

        By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly
        By the spring of 2014, the pilot had come to an end for JPMorgan Chase's ReEntry Program, a program designed for women coming back to the workforce after a period of time away. Mary Callahan Erdoes, CEO of Asset Management, and her team had to evaluate whether or not... View Details
        Keywords: Women; Training; Leadership; Motherhood; Talent and Talent Management; Experience and Expertise; Diversity; Gender; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Human Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Programs; Financial Services Industry; United States
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        • April 2020 (Revised May 2021)
        • Case

        Middlebury College: Energy2028

        By: Brian Trelstad, Michael Norris and John McKinley
        In 2018, Middlebury College’s board of trustees is considering a proposal called Energy2028 that would push the small, liberal arts and sciences college in Vermont to become a net zero carbon emitter, decrease energy usage by 25%, divest fossil fuels from its... View Details
        Keywords: Divestment; Energy; Higher Education; Energy Conservation; Climate Change
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        • 05 Jun 2014
        • News

        Harvard Business School to Create New Convening Center

        • 26 Jun 2020
        • Research & Ideas

        Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

        the catastrophe damaged several of Fast Retailing’s UNIQLO stores, CEO Tadashi Yanai was intent on the company doing its part to restore a sense of normalcy. Although many other retail stores turned off their lights at night to save on View Details
        Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
        • Career Coach

        Craig Husa

        CourtLink Corporation (acquired by LexisNexis) and served in the U.S. Navy as a submarine officer.  MBA from HBS, BS Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy.  Currently, Craig is also the Board Chairman of the Clean Tech Alliance and on the Technical... View Details
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