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  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Making Eco Easy

Blueland cofounders, Sarah Paiji Yoo, John Mascari (MBA 2012), and Gina Pak (MBA 2015) (photo by Chris Taggart) As new mom Sarah Paiji Yoo contemplated the switch from nursing her infant son to making him formula, she was horrified to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 23 Aug 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

overcoming long odds. Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World? Can inclusivity, sustainability, and better governance boost economies? Rebecca Henderson and George Serafeim discuss the impact investing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology
  • 13 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably

companies we visited were supportive of market interventions by government policy and regulation to encourage sustainable investments. For example, Grolsch shared that taxes on landfilling (which is now prohibited in the Netherlands)... View Details
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Beyond the Plastisphere

2050 our oceans will contain more of it by weight than fish. Single-use petroleum-based plastics contaminate our water, pollute our land, and contribute to global warming. And... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing
  • August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Supplement

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Amram Migdal and Susan Pinckney
Arla implemented a data-based price incentive system to measure, track, and influence climate friendly changes to reduce CO2 emissions across the world’s fourth largest dairy cooperative. View Details
Keywords: Dairy Industry; Business Earnings; Earnings Management; Environmental Accounting; Agribusiness; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Making; Decisions; Voting; Environmental Management; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Global Strategy; Ownership Type; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Germany; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
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  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

to the belief, now firmly lodged in public consciousness, that high environmental standards are not just desirable but their birthright. To set the stage, Reinhardt reminded the group that pollution is not a new phenomenon in human... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The Blue-Green Revolution

shipping. In addition, algae can grow in salty or brackish water under extremely harsh conditions; so unlike other biofuel feedstocks such as corn and soy, algae don’t need to compete with agricultural crops for fresh water View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist
  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Massport, Back on Course

meetings. Thousands of people have participated. And there have been a number of court cases. The judges who have reviewed the evidence have all essentially come to the same conclusion: The new runway is necessary to fix the delay... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Massport; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Alumni Leading Change

balance are our priorities,” says Yang. Pro-worker and pro-environment policies aren’t just a social good at Esquel. “They save money and strengthen our competitive advantage,” notes Yang. For example, View Details
  • August 1974 (Revised November 1974)
  • Case

Reynolds Construction Company

By: Paul W. Marshall
Deals with the use of critical path method for the construction of remote control building, which is part of a water purification system. Discusses the necessity of determining the shortest possible time in which a job could be done without spending more money. Case... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Construction; Cost Management; Time Management; Wastes and Waste Processing; System; Construction Industry
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  • Web

Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment

pollutants that cause climate change. Transitioning to fossil-fuel free energy sources for these processes, improving efficiency and reducing waste, and bringing low-carbon... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

contract, and they know this can breed violence and terrorism. Their democracies seem unable to adopt appropriate remedies. In Asia, they are mostly sanguine about economic growth. But there is concern about... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

Strategic Value Advisors—predict environmental performance. We find that firms that have more KLD Environmental Concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Climate Change as Must-See TV

ABBASI: With the participation of HBS alumni and Hollywood heavyweights, bringing climate change drama into US living rooms. Related Link Preview: Years of Living Dangerously (video) by Garry Emmons Last spring, when a Hawaiian... View Details
Keywords: videos; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
  • 2005
  • Chapter

Social Pressures in Siting Conflicts: A Case Study of Siting a Radioactive Waste Repository in Pennsylvania

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Howard Kunreuther
Keywords: Wastes and Waste Processing; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Conflict and Resolution; Local Range
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  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

business leaders. These include pollution and climate change, poverty and income inequality, obesity and public health, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • April 1992 (Revised June 1994)
  • Case

Grappling with Garbage: The Bandung Municipal Cleansing Enterprise, P.D. Kerbersihan

By: James E. Austin
Keywords: Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Environmental Sustainability; Indonesia
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  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

summaries of past environmental performance. In addition, firms with more KLD concerns have slightly, but statistically significantly, more pollution and regulatory compliance violations in later years. KLD... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2011
  • Teaching Note

Carbon Trading Simulation: Green Cement Inc. (TN)

By: Peter A. Coles
Teaching Note for 911051. View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Trade; Decisions; Risk and Uncertainty; Production; Pollutants; Price; Sales; Profit
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