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- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
financing, a socially positive attitude toward entrepreneurship and the failure that it often entails, and a market for new ideas). If that's the case, countries that should be at the forefront in advocating more stringent rules regarding... View Details
- 18 Feb 2020
- Cold Call Podcast
Global Ocean Trust: Protecting the Blue Planet in New Ways
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
Social and Environmental Stewardship, the report praised HBS as a leader in fostering social awareness, incorporating social concerns into coursework and projects, and supporting student activities and faculty research that influence both... View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
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Martin Aares Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- News
Fueling the Future
new logo, website, and mission statement to reflect the broader vision for the waste-to-energy business. “Combusting garbage to produce electricity in an environmentally controlled manner keeps waste out of the landfill and creates... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
Aravaipa Ventures, a fund to support environmentally sustainable technology businesses in Colorado. Fenwick-Smith had private equity know-how but had never been involved in creating venture funds. It was that lack of direct experience... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2021
- News
Locally Grown
Inspired by the natural beauty he found when he moved to Boulder, Colorado, Robert Fenwick-Smith (MBA 1988) created Aravaipa Ventures, an unusual venture capital fund to support environmentally sustainable technology businesses in the... View Details
- Profile
Marc Wilson
even if your idea is a good one, it won’t get broad acceptance unless it makes money." Marc cites the outdoor retail company, Patagonia, as an example: "In order for others to follow their environmental standards, they have to... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education
- Fast Answer
Green Business: beginner's resources and toolkit
Where can I find guides and tools for for first-time environmental startups? Resources on environmental/green business: ABI/Proquest: search for articles on topics related to green/eco/sustainable startups, and on green business or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
A COYOTE SPOTTED resting on Ohiri Field in November was later found wandering on Harvard Way near Morris Hall at 3 a.m. A Mass. Environmental Police investigation found that the animal "posed no danger." THE FALL I-LAB SCRAMBLE student... View Details
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Scott Wu
environmental sustainability, health and wellness, natural and organic consumer products, and business services. He was also a member of the founding team of Upstart, which is pioneering crowdfunding for recent graduates. Wu credits HBS... View Details
- October 2024
- Course Overview Note
Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in the Era of Climate Change (ROICC)
By: George Serafeim
This course overview note introduces the course Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in the Era of Climate Change to students. View Details
Keywords: Environment; Innovation; Technology; General Management; Organizational Transformations; Investments; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Finance; Accounting; Leadership; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Management
Serafeim, George. "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in the Era of Climate Change (ROICC)." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 125-052, October 2024.
- 01 Aug 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
the Colorado field office of B Lab, a nonprofit organization that seeks to redefine the meaning of success in business. B Lab’s mission is to assemble a global community of Certified B Corporations—companies that meet certain prescribed standards of social and View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
Lessons in social entrepreneurship To Satchu, Domingues’ experience offers three significant takeaways for hopeful prospective founders seeking to make a social impact: There’s no ideal path to success. “People perceive there is this... View Details
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IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management - Blog - Business & Environment
Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2024 IFC India 2024... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Star analysts who change firms suffer an immediate, lasting decline in perfor-mance. He also explores how some Wall Street research departments are successfully growing, retaining, and deploying their own stars. International Differences in View Details
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
notable recent addition is the House of Mandela portfolio of wines, produced by the family of Nelson Mandela. The Mandelas and Cuffes both recognized South Africa's burgeoning fair trade wine movement, which promotes equitable trade and labor practices, community... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
How to Scale a Startup Marketplace for Used Furniture
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Transition to Clean Technology
By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and William R. Kerr
We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and dirty technologies compete in production and innovation, in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry
Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, and William R. Kerr. "Transition to Clean Technology." Special Issue on Climate Change and the Economy. Journal of Political Economy 124, no. 2 (February 2016): 52–104.