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  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

The Sparkles in Our Skies

yet been able to do to address them. Other lab-grown diamonds can pollute the environment in two main ways, Hagemann explains. All diamonds are made of carbon, and creating one in a reactor requires... View Details
Keywords: April White; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade
  • November 2019
  • Supplement

Hapag-Lloyd AG: Complying with IMO 2020

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
A new environmental regulation known as IMO 2020 was creating what one industry analyst called “the biggest shakeup for the oil and shipping industries in decades.” According to the new regulation, all ocean-going ships would have to limit their sulfur emissions by... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Ship Transportation; Strategic Planning; Game Theory; Pollutants; Supply Chain; Corporate Accountability; Capital Budgeting; Environmental Sustainability; Shipping Industry; Transportation Industry; Germany
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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

Productivity is also consistent with a clean environment. Environmental pollution normally is a sign of inefficient and unproductive use of resources and is almost always a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • News

When it comes to climate change, companies must prepare now

Climate change is a fact of life, and it’s playing an increasing role in business competition. Forest L. Reinhardt, the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration, advises companies to adjust and... View Details
  • 13 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities
  • 17 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

quite comprehensive. They include not just GHGs, but other environmental resources like water requirements and other pollutants you might care about as well,” Toffel says. The researchers outline how some... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 11 Jun 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • December 2022
  • Supplement

Driving Decarbonization at BMW - Video Supplement

By: Shirley Lu, George Serafeim and Michael W. Toffel
Videos of Thomas Becker, Vice President of Sustainability and Mobility at BMW Group, in support of the case "Driving Decarbonization at BMW" (HBS No. 123-008) View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Auto Manufacturing; Carbon Accounting; Accounting; Environmental Accounting; Energy; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Pollution; Product; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Production; Product Design; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Europe; United States; China
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  • 06 Sep 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 10

sustainability strategies of leading German and American firms until the 1970s. However during that decade the German firms diverged from their American counterparts in using public relations strategies not only to contain fallout from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jul 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

explanations for the phenomenon and its success or failure. These included such things as the nature of the industry or product, the way such goals are implemented, and the size of the organization making... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective

opinion and climate policies, and the relative cost of various energy sources. “There is always lively classroom discussion about whether industries that pollute are paying a... View Details
  • Article

Turning Waste into By-Product

By: Deishin Lee
This paper studies how a firm can create and capture value by converting a waste stream into a useful and saleable by-product (i.e., implementing by-product synergy [BPS]). We show that BPS creates an operational synergy between two products that are jointly produced.... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Innovation and Invention; Cost Management; Opportunities; Market Participation; Framework; Profit; Competition; Wastes and Waste Processing; Product; Business Processes
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  • September 1992 (Revised October 1992)
  • Case

Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (B)

By: Forest L. Reinhardt
In addition to the issues of expected cost minimization elucidated in Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (A), problems involving regulatory uncertainty are critical to the firm's Clean Air Act compliance strategy. The regulatory uncertainty affects, and is affected by, the... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Business Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Cost vs Benefits; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategic Planning; Investment Return; Government Legislation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Government Relations; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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  • June 1990 (Revised October 1990)
  • Case

Waste Reduction in Taiwan

By: George C. Lodge
Keywords: Wastes and Waste Processing; Environmental Sustainability; Taiwan
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  • February 2010 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

Re-THINK-ing THINK: The Electric Car Company

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and David Kiron
On January 5, 2010, 48-year-old Richard Canny was on his way to meet the governor of Indiana. He was reading his newly issued press release announcing that THINK planned to start automobile production in Elkhart County, Indiana to launch its THINK City battery-operated... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Global Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Product Development; Production; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Norway; Indiana
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The Climate Custodians

By: Robert G. Eccles and Tim Youmans
Can custody banks become key players in climate change? Custody banks joining the battle against climate change will signal a significant shift in governance ideology for this highly regulated industry so critical to the global financial system. While global custody... View Details
Keywords: Pollutants; Climate Change; Capital Markets; Investment Banking; Institutional Investing; Policy
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  • Article

Optimizing Organic Waste to Energy Operations

By: Baris Ata, Deishin Lee and Mustafa H. Tongarlak
A waste-to-energy firm that recycles organic waste with energy recovery performs two environmentally beneficial functions: it diverts waste from landfill and it produces renewable energy. At the same time, the waste-to-energy firm serves and collects revenue from two... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Revenue; Customers; Strategy; Corporate Governance; Wastes and Waste Processing; Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Cost Management; Urban Scope
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  • 26 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

levels of related expertise; (ii) subsidiaries exhibit significant heterogeneity in this expertise; and (iii) the subsidiaries are more diversified and less concentrated. We examine the efforts to diffuse... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

leadership and create more win-win opportunities in the future" In another example, apparel production is associated with water pollution at many stages of the value chain. Agricultural crop production... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining