Sustainable - Publications - Faculty & Research

2002
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Bridging the Gap: How Improved Information Can Help Companies Integrate Shareholder Value and Environmental Quality

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Information; Environmental Sustainability

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March 2022 (Revised June 2023)
Background Note

Climate Issues on the Ground: Snapshots of Diverse American Cities

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Coelin Scibetta and Ryan Barr

This compilation provides brief snapshots of climate action and its geographic and institutional context in 13 U.S. cities that send diverse participants to the Harvard Business School Young American Leaders Program to learn about cross-sector collaboration to address... View Details

Keywords: Cities; Ecosystems; Cross-sector Collaboration; Green Business; U.S. Competitiveness; Economic Sectors; City; Climate Change; Leadership; Change; Boston; Detroit; Minneapolis; Pittsburgh; San Jose; Seattle

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Keywords: Dairy

20 Jan 2011
News

Oil Spill Solution

SOAKING IT IN: Scott Smith has proven the absorbency of his firm's Opflex polymer foam at major oil spills in the Gulf and China. Last April’s Gulf of Mexico disaster was back on the front pages in early January when the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Touting Green Energy’s Potential

MARKEY: Just as the telecom sector was revolutionized in the 1990s by legislation that unleashed competition, so too will a green energy sector be launched, generating enormous wealth creation. In March, at a two-day HBS conference on energy, Congressman Ed Markey... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 12

sustainability report since 2002. In its 2011 Sustainability report, the company included a "materiality matrix," and was one of only five of the 97 companies in Spain that produced a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

showcase best practices in the topic, to be distributed among all participating agents. Our objective is to disseminate knowledge and facilitate implementation of the most efficient solutions for distribution of financial products. View Details

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

member of the Omaha Tribe and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. I traveled to Omaha because I wanted to see Keen's work with Sacred Seed, a nonprofit he started in 2014 to educate others about an indigenous, centuries-old approach to growing crops that offers a more... View Details

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Management) Nori Gerardo Lietz Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Real Property John Macomber Camille Douglas Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) (also listed under Strategy) Scott Mayfield Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Sustainable... View Details

03 Jun 2002
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

produce sustained economic superiority or a model to be emulated in the U.S. is debatable. While some would like to see a convergence around the best features of the European and U.S. approach to management, there was limited confidence... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One

protests didn’t have a large, sustained impact. Specifically, the researchers found: Protests generated significant online activity initially, but it declined relatively quickly. At the beginning of a social movement, social posts and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog

developing economies. IFC India presents an opportunity for students to advance their knowledge of sustainability efforts, decarbonization and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The course will address and unpack the... View Details

Student-Profile

Kala Viswanathan

Kala Viswanathan (she/her) has always had an interest in using policy to help create a more sustainable world. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Duke University and Stanford... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

New Awards Recognize Teaching Excellence

Lecturer and Senior Researcher Stacey Childress for her Entrepreneurship in Education Reform course Senior Lecturer Stephen Kaufman for his Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise course Professor Rakesh Khurana for his Management... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Sixth Annual Cyberposium an SRO Success

Simulcast on the Web, the conference began with an evening keynote address by Guy Kawasaki, founder of Garage.com, who spoke about the challenges of identifying and building sustainable Internet and high-tech businesses. The conference... View Details

09 Feb 2016
News

Powering into the Future

Alexander Gruzen (MBA 1990) is CEO of WiTricity Corp., in Texas. In this video, he explains how his company is helping to lead the world toward a more sustainable future. “I wanted to create something very new and had a chance to join a... View Details

25 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Climate Stories

climate change. Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for View Details

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Student Clubs | MBA

Goods Club Rugby Football Club S Salsa Society Sneakers Club Social Impact Club South Asian Business Association Southeast Asia Club Squash Club Sustainability Club T Tech Club Tennis Club Texas Club V Venture Capital & Private Equity... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)

estate and construction business in Atlanta 70 years ago. He was an incubator and accelerator before the terms were even coined. Our Big IDEAS curriculum helps develop a step-by-step plan for creating a sustainable business. The process... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; leadership; Black; African American

25 Jan 2018
News

Living and Learning in a Local Context

sustainability and farm work. We bring thousands of students from all over the world on three- to five-day courses and retreats to learn about how humans impact the earth. We have lots of adult workshops. We run an early-childhood program... View Details

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