Publications

2000
Chapter

Anticipating Greener Supply Chain Demands: One Singapore Company's Journey to ISO 14001

By: Michael W. Toffel

One major benefit of Jebsen & Jessen Packaging Pte Ltd (JJPS’s) implementation of ISO 14001 is that it acquired a third-party 'seal of approval' that will be used in its marketing efforts to meet the growing environmental concern of its customers within the electronics... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards; Environmental Sustainability; Singapore

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November 1992 (Revised April 1995)
Case

Advertising Council Earth Share Campaign: Strategy, Execution, and Final Campaign

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Jayne D. Kramer

In the several years preceding 1992, there had been a dramatic rise in the public's concern for environmental issues. Yet the Roper Organization reported that fewer than one in ten Americans made personal efforts to help solve environmental problems on a regular basis.... View Details

Keywords: Advertising Campaigns; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Research; Environmental Sustainability; Welfare

October 2024
Course Overview Note

Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in the Era of Climate Change (ROICC)

By: George Serafeim

This course overview note introduces the course Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in the Era of Climate Change to students. View Details

Keywords: Environment; Innovation; Technology; General Management; Organizational Transformations; Investments; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Finance; Accounting; Leadership; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Management

April 2024
Teaching Note

Ferrari: Shifting to Carbon Neutrality

By: Raffaella Sadun

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 723-446. A sports car manufacturer commits to carbon neutrality and to electrifying a large part of its car fleet. View Details

Keywords: Strategic Planning; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Leadership Style; Environmental Sustainability; Auto Industry; Italy

01 Dec 2008
News

Innovation as P&G’s Key

Charan (MBA ’65, DBA ’67) team up to show how P&G has reconnected with customers and primed a sustainable innovation engine. Charan contributes cases and lessons from companies he has worked with, including IDEO, Nokia, Shimano,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

30 Oct 2014
Blog Post

Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Robert Leke...

working with African businesses, providing support wherever necessary, to grow them in a sustainable manner. I do not foresee this interest changing over the next 5 years. I intend to continue growing my career at Tana, learning from its... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

Profile

Carlos Coto

Carlos joined his fifty-odd HBS colleagues on the India IXP, where the focus was on "the technology and infrastructure necessary to sustain growth in an emerging market." That theme resonates with Carlos' own ambitions.... View Details

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Business of Ideas - Course Catalog

“ideas” and how they shape the world in which we operate; and the big businesses that nurture, launch, and sustain idea creators as well as the supply chains that create value from them. Several questions will animate the course. Which... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

The Business of Babies

commercial and scientific promise, sustaining legislation has to be put in place to allow the market to achieve its potential,” Spar commented. “The best technology in the world won’t help you if it’s illegal to use it.” Another... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
Case

Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs

By: John D. Macomber, Chad M. Carr and Fan Zhao

Private sector entrepreneur in China with advanced solid waste management capability competes with state owned enterprises and also government policies supporting a rival technology. Wen Yibo has used engineering expertise and political savvy to build a major privately... View Details

Keywords: Private Sector; Public Sector; Service Delivery; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Wastes and Waste Processing; Urban Development; Utilities Industry; China

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

longer will access to incremental markets be the primary expansion driver; increasingly the drive must be to capture scarce sources of intellectual and human capital—strategic resources that can provide sustainable competitive advantage... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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What Others Are Saying - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Healthcare Prize What Others Are Saying What Others Are Saying What Others Are Saying “When someone like Michael Porter tells companies that sustainability and related social and environmental issues will affect the future of the... View Details

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OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog

difference between management and ownership? What makes someone effective at ownership? How do you prepare to be an effective owner? By understanding these dynamics, students will be able to build long-term, sustainable strategies that... View Details

01 Jan 2006
News

Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

draft of the Human Genome Project, we launched the Biomedical Sciences Initiative here." As Singapore set out on this journey, Yeo made sure that plenty of funding was available to nurture and sustain the new ventures. From 2000 to 2005,... View Details

August 2023 (Revised July 2024)
Technical Note

Power-to-X

By: Willy Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter

To reduce greenhouse gas emissions that were contributing to climate change, the world needs to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Power-to-X (PtX) refers to an array of processes that convert electricity (power) to various gaseous and liquid... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Strategies; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Transition; Renewable Energy; Energy Industry

August 2010 (Revised February 2011)
Case

Highland Capital Partners: Investing in Cleantech

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and David Kiron

One day during the summer of 2008, Paul Maeder, co-founder and general partner of Highland Capital Partners (HCP), was walking with his wife around Reykjavik, Iceland, marveling at how clean the city felt and at the widespread use of naturally occurring geothermal... View Details

Keywords: Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Global Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; Green Technology Industry

October 2003
Case

Financing Biodiversity Conservation by the Global Conservation Fund

By: Mihir A. Desai and Julia Stevens

The Global Conservation Fund is an international nonprofit organization with a $100 million endowment and an exclusive focus on land preservation. The fund and its director must decide which projects to fund over the next year and what financing mechanism to use.... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Protection; Project Evaluation; Environmental Sustainability; Projects; Finance; Decision Making; Financial Instruments; Nonprofit Organizations