Long-term Sustainability - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Mar 2023
Blog Post

HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy

production targets in the nascent hydrogen market. Our visit to Crossbridge Energy provided clarity on the usage as well as the financial and sustainability aspects of these production targets. HySynergy’s clever use of View Details

06 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 6

established processes for stakeholder engagement, to be more long-term oriented, and to exhibit higher measurement and disclosure of nonfinancial information. Finally, High Sustainability companies... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

20 Mar 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Illuminating India’s Solar Future: Reflections on Tata Solar Manufacturing Plant Visit

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details

Profile

Lauren Booker

internship, she will do so within a new capacity: investment banking, an area she'd like to pursue after graduation. "HBS has helped me explore my career options," she says, "with so many opportunities for cultivating my passions and strengths. My View Details

30 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Rob Self (MBA 2021) – Integrating Climate into Consulting

place to reflect on where my career had taken me and where my career would potentially go moving forward. Additionally, I was drawn to the willingness of the faculty, administration, and groups like BEI to engage on climate and View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

Research Brief: As the Wind Blows

To better understand the prospects for future entrepreneurial success in sustainable industries, Professor Geoffrey Jones looks to the past. In his chapter in the new book Green Capitalism?, for instance, Jones delves into the history of... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

01 Dec 1996
News

Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business

Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Responsibility initiative. Professors Thomas R. Piper and Lynn Sharp Paine emphasized the importance of both ethics and economics for outstanding organizations. They argued that the only zone of View Details

Profile

Mallika Ahluwalia

were looking after four or five kids. Yet there was a lack of sustainability – it was month-to-month without a long-term solution." Integrated at the intersection Mallika's U.N. experience "started... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

School Ties

School's US Competitiveness Project. Because business leaders have a profound economic and moral stake in making that happen, Rivkin adds, "the most progressive of them are moving into hands-on, long-term partnerships with educators.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

[climate change] is a massive megatrend,” said Audrey Choi (MBA 2004), Morgan Stanley’s chief sustainability officer and chief marketing officer, during a panel discussion. “It’s a fundamental material risk to earnings and portfolios.”... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

key performance variables (sales growth, profit margins, working capital turnover and long-term asset turnover) as well as financial leverage and cost of capital. Users can judge whether their forecasts are reasonable by comparing them... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy

was also a Student Sustainability Associate, which connected me with like-minded individuals who are interested in sustainability on campus. Through my time as an SSA and as a Club leader, I built up my... View Details

26 Sep 2018
News

Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

personal effort has been to seek out innovation in the environmental finance arena. Too often, if you want to conserve any type of land, you have to have substantial funding to accomplish protected status and provide for long-term... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

Associate at Nomura Greentech Nomura Greentech Capital Advisors is a global investment banking firm focused on sustainable infrastructure companies and projects. The firm executes mergers, divestitures, acquisitions, and private placement... View Details

03 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Optimism: Younger Black Knowledge Workers +Jim Andrew (MBA 1986)Chief Sustainability Officer, PepsiCo+Audrey Choi (MBA 2004) Chief Sustainability Officer and CEO, Institute for View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Protecting conservation land while turning a profit

the lands will be managed sustainably in perpetuity, and, in many cases, the assurance of public access to the land for recreation,” he explains. Based in Hanover, New Hampshire, Lyme is recognized as a leader in conservation investing,... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Lack of Energy: The Problem of Human Inertia

can be an effective tactic: “People are more likely to support energy policies that have initial costs and long-term benefits when the policies will be implemented in the future — even in the near future — rather than today.” Related... View Details

05 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

everything from the decline of the U.S. automobile industry to the low penetration of techniques such as TQM and continuous improvement. Yet a vigorous tradition in the accounting literature establishes that firms routinely sacrifice View Details