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- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
as well. Q: What business trends are you noticing? Dessain: Currently European companies are focusing a lot of effort on sustainable development and other environmental concerns. ERC is supporting Professor Estelle Cantillon in strategy with a research project on View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
be better stewards of the Earth. Whether we succeed or not, the Earth will always be here. The real question is whether we humans will exist on this Earth.” Just the Facts: Transportation is the largest source of overall US greenhouse gas... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
atmosphere in large quantities by capturing and storing greenhouse gases once emitted; and green hydrogen as a feedstock for steel production in combination with clean energy, which is a path to total decarbonization of steel production.... View Details
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
cooled and stored in tanks, and can either be stored underground, converted into green fuels, or sold to local greenhouse vegetable growers. Pilot deployment of carbon capture technology at Amager Bakke. Image source: the authors.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
Much hope and plenty of money are riding on the idea that batterypowered electric cars will help slow global warming by reducing tailpipe emissions. But when it comes to reducing the greenhouse gases produced by heavy... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
Sustainability needed to develop positions on several issues. Tactically, he needed to recommend whether the company should purchase carbon offsets to help meet its aggressive greenhouse gas reduction targets, and whether to continue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
the greenhouse effect, or global warming, and you’ll likely get an earful. But Mike is a little different. From his vantage point in what’s been called the second-toughest job in America, he really knows about those issues, and he knows... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. To avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we need to get to net zero emissions by 2050. Achieving this goal is possible, but it will require nothing less than a national and international... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
(MBA 2000), who stepped down in November after four years as CEO; he has stayed on as a strategic advisor. And because rotting organic waste is itself a source of greenhouse gases, Full Cycle’s waste-based bioplastic not only removes... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
and compare these with prior life cycle data for biopolymers as well as other fibers, and we find that nanoclay production results in lower energy use and greenhouse gas emissions than production of many common biopolymers and glass... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design
alone is estimated to release 1.2 billion tonnes of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere every year.” According to United Nations’ forecasts, “the sector’s emissions will rise by more than 60 per cent by 2030, if transformation towards a... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
Harvard Business School Case 518-002 NatureSweet This case describes the business model and workplace philosophy of NatureSweet, a privately owned, vertically integrated greenhouse grower and marketer of fresh tomatoes with sales across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
A Dairy Company Be? Novo Nordisk Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping Circularity in Denmark BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
greenhouse gas emissions. The case describes challenges facing this small agricultural biotechnology company, notably uneven enforcement of intellectual property in emerging market countries and uncertainty regarding the provision and... View Details
- 17 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS
being one third of the human causes of climate change–along with heat-absorbing greenhouse gasses released by fossil fuel combustion and deforestation–it receives less than one percent of attention from the media, funders, governments,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
consume carbon dioxide (i.e., greenhouse gas) and turn it into raw materials that could replace petrochemicals. The energy business, it seems, is destined to become driven by biology-based innovation. Developments such as these are all... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
associated with improved productivity are also linked to lower greenhouse gas emissions. Download the paper: http://www.stanford.edu/~nbloom/BloomGenakosMartinSadun.pdf Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
methods that included burning large tracts of forest land, which destroyed wildlife habitats, displaced native populations, and emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Global demand for palm oil was increasing, which made the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Students Reflect on COP28
from the rest of the world in this area–we have the world’s least sustainable transportation system, as measured by transportation emissions per capita. And even globally, transportation is on the wrong track: it’s the fastest-growing View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
change, oil companies are diversifying their businesses, putting money toward renewable energy sources and green technology. While sustainable funds shun fossil fuel producers, which contribute half of the world’s greenhouse gases,... View Details