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- 1991
- Article
Binding Parties to Agreements in Environmental Disputes
By: M. A. Wheeler and L. Bacow
Wheeler, M. A., and L. Bacow. "Binding Parties to Agreements in Environmental Disputes." Villanova Environmental Law Journal (1991): 99–109.
- 25 Feb 2009
- Conference Presentation
New Research on Corporate Environmental Disclosure and Environmental Ratings
- May 1999
- Article
A Mixed-Motive Perspective on the Economics versus Environment Debate
By: A. Hoffman, J. Gillespie, D. Moore, K. A. Wade-Benzoni, L. L. Thompson and M. H. Bazerman
Hoffman, A., J. Gillespie, D. Moore, K. A. Wade-Benzoni, L. L. Thompson, and M. H. Bazerman. "A Mixed-Motive Perspective on the Economics versus Environment Debate." American Behavioral Scientist 42, no. 8 (May 1999): 1254–1276.
- 1984
- Other Unpublished Work
Legitimizing Risk Management for Toxic Chemicals
By: Dutch Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser
- 19 Nov 2015
- News
A Hard Sell: Bringing Cultured Beef to Market
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
How Global Leaders Should Think About Solving Our Biggest Problems
- 06 Sep 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Should US Companies Still Care About the Paris Climate Change Agreement?
- 2022
- Chapter
Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The case of Wilderness Safaris
By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Woods and Herman B. Leonard
This chapter analyzes the entrepreneurial conception and evolution of the Wilderness Safaris (WS) ecotourism enterprise operating in eight African countries. It illuminates a series of factors that contribute to positive environmental impact as well as financial...
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Austin, James E., Megan Epler Woods, and Herman B. Leonard. "Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The Case of Wilderness Safaris." Chap. 7 in World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship, Volume 1: Environmental and Social Entrepreneurship, edited by Peter Gianiodis, Maritza I. Espina, and William R. Meek, 175–196. World Scientific Publishing, 2022.
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,...
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- 19 Apr 2016
- News
LuminOva Makes Great Strides Tackling Infertility
video, Blavatnik Fellow and cofounder Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) and CEO Theresa Tribble (MBA 2009) detail the progress the company has made since launching at the Harvard i-lab and winning the 2015 Deans’ Health and Life Sciences...
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- February 1994 (Revised August 1994)
- Background Note
Note on Contingent Environmental Liabilities
Addresses contingent environmental liabilities that are the result of unforeseen environmental risks where the dollar amount of such liabilities is unknown and depends on future events. In contrast, fines for violating environmental laws are liabilities, but are not...
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Keywords:
Legal Liability;
Risk Management;
Natural Environment;
Laws and Statutes;
Pollutants;
Governance Compliance;
United States
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Forest L. Reinhardt. "Note on Contingent Environmental Liabilities." Harvard Business School Background Note 794-098, February 1994. (Revised August 1994.)
- 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 for administering a system...
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- December 2002
- Case
National Economic Accounting: Past, Present, and Future
By: David A. Moss and Sarah A. Brennan
Presents the fundamentals of GDP accounting (including definitions, etc.), examines the history of national accounting, and surveys the international debate over "Green GDP." The first section explains the basic rules and definitions of national economic accounting and...
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Keywords:
History;
Natural Environment;
Quality;
Accounting;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Environmental Sustainability;
Economy;
United States
Moss, David A., and Sarah A. Brennan. "National Economic Accounting: Past, Present, and Future." Harvard Business School Case 703-026, December 2002.
- 24 Mar 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers...
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- 06 Nov 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Extending Producer Responsibility: An Evaluation Framework for Product Take-Back Policies
- 17 Apr 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Diffusing Management Practices within the Firm: The Role of Information Provision
- March 1992 (Revised November 1993)
- Background Note
Trading the Right to Pollute: Developing the Market for Pollution Allowances
Examines the issues underlying the formation of the market for tradeable pollution allowances, following the requirement of Title IV of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act. Examines the implications that these trade the allowances hold for the U.S. electric...
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Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Trading the Right to Pollute: Developing the Market for Pollution Allowances." Harvard Business School Background Note 292-120, March 1992. (Revised November 1993.)
- 2022
- Article
Towards Robust Off-Policy Evaluation via Human Inputs
By: Harvineet Singh, Shalmali Joshi, Finale Doshi-Velez and Himabindu Lakkaraju
Off-policy Evaluation (OPE) methods are crucial tools for evaluating policies in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, where direct deployment is often infeasible, unethical, or expensive. When deployment environments are expected to undergo changes (that is, dataset...
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Singh, Harvineet, Shalmali Joshi, Finale Doshi-Velez, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Towards Robust Off-Policy Evaluation via Human Inputs." Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (2022): 686–699.
- February 2021
- Tutorial
T-tests: Theory and Practice
This video provides an introduction to hypothesis testing, sampling, t-tests, and p-values. It provides examples of A/B testing and t-testing to assess whether difference between two groups are statistically significant. This video can be assigned in conjunction with...
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