Environment - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jun 2020
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Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity

02 Dec 2019
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Business and the Politics of Climate Change

28 Oct 2019
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Creating Resilience: How Businesses Can Cope with the Costs of a Warming Planet

09 Nov 2018
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Mainstreaming Sustainability: What Banks And Business Schools Should Do Next

24 Jun 2018
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Does Sustainable Investing Lead to Lower Returns?

23 May 2018
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Teen Rocket Scientists Offer a Peek Into the Future

30 Mar 2018
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Climate Change in the Classroom: Lessons from HBS Energy Expert Forest Reinhardt

22 Feb 2017
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Photos courtesy Double Time Capital Photos courtesy Double Time Capital A recent Fortune article profiles Double Time Capital, an investment firm focused on utility-scale solar farms in North Carolina founded by Rye Barcott (MBA 2009) and Dan McCready (MBA 2011). Both... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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Nicola Leahy-MacManus

career? I am excited to manage growing organizations with social as well as economic missions. I hope ultimately to help shape the business environment in my home country of Ireland. How has HBS prepared you for your new job? Apart from... View Details

22 Aug 2017
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Investors as Stewards of the Commons?

Keywords: by George Serafeim

2012
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Environmental Federalism in the European Union and the United States

By: David Vogel, Michael W. Toffel, Diahanna Post and Nazli Z. Uludere Aragon

The United States (US) and the European Union (EU) are federal systems in which the responsibility for environmental policy-making is divided or shared between the central government and the (member) states. The attribution of decision-making power has important policy... View Details

Keywords: Natural Environment; Policy; Government and Politics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; European Union; United States

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15 Mar 2017
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28 Apr 2023
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Sweden’s Northvolt Electric Battery Maker: A Startup with a Mission

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim; Battery; Auto; Electronics; Energy

01 Jun 2011
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HBS Chapel Earns Gold Certification

In a first for Harvard University, the HBS Class of 1959 Chapel has achieved LEED gold certification for significant reductions in energy and water usage. In fact, the chapel is the first university building in the world to achieve gold status under the existing... View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction

11 Aug 2022
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Why Companies Aren't Living Up to Their Climate Pledges

01 Jun 2017
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Starting Lineup: Values Proposition

Illustrations by Drue Wagner The Company The Leadership The Pitch The News Saathi Cofounder and CFO Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014); Founded 2015 Almost 3 million women in India don’t have access to sanitary pads. Saathi’s environmentally friendly pads, made from banana fiber... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo

Floor hand Ray Gerrish works to make repairs on a drilling rig outside Watford City. Employees work around the clock at Raven Rig No. 1, one of more than 150 oil rigs in the Bakken. (photos by Jim Gehrz/Minneapolis Star Tribune/ZUMA Press and Jacob Ehrbahn/Polfoto/ZUMA... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

24 Apr 2014
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Clean water that provides a trickle-down effect

As chairman and CEO of Ayala Corporation, Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala (AB 1981, MBA 1987) is enhancing the quality of life of more than six million people, approximately one-third of whom belong to the low-income sector in Manila, by making accessible a basic human... View Details

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