sustainability - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

contextual features influence the expression of these needs, sustaining or undermining the positive emotional experiences that fuel work engagement. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53578 December 2017 Mayo... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Oct 2024
Blog Post

High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details

14 Feb 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco

times—from climate change and environmental sustainability to racial equity and social and economic inclusion—and then sharing that research with students, practitioners, policy makers, and the general public to affect meaningful change.... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Happy New Year: The HBS Alumni Board's Newest Members Look to the Future

made during those years have sustained to this day, and it's a group I continue to learn from every year. I've never viewed HBS as simply a school or a place. I view it as a living and evolving institution gifted to us by those who came... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush; alumni events; lifelong learning; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Rakhi Mehra

summer internship with Dr. Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University, "to look at innovative, sustainable ways to reduce poverty and meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goals for 2015." A subsequent direct meeting with... View Details

Profile

Fangfang Wang

more than public sector support. “If you can’t engage the private sector and persuade consumers, you can’t get more people to use clean technology,” she says. Fangfang sustained an interest in using private-sector principles to achieve... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education; CPG

01 Sep 2012
News

Rebel with a Cause

environmental sustainability efforts, serving as executive director of Ceres, a coalition of environmental groups and institutional investors; initiator of the Investor Network on Climate Risk; and cofounder of the Global Reporting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; social activism; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

21 Sep 2016
Blog Post

Meet the Global Business Club

hosts panels and fireside talks focused on topics such as global business development, global issues, and conducting business across borders. We have a great set of events lined up for the year including fire side chats and expert panels about global issues such as... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Club Conferences | MBA

19, 2024 Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition Retail & Luxury Goods Club Conference October 20, 2024 Retail & Luxury Goods Climate Symposium November 2, 2024 Energy & Environment Club Food & Agriculture Club Sustainability Club... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

No Rain Delay for Graduation 2008

(Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise). At Commencement the following day, the clouds remained but no umbrellas were needed as 907 students from more than seventy countries received MBAs, and 4 earned DBAs. In conjunction with... View Details

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

04 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Energy and Cleantech: Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

recruiters are looking for in the energy and environment field? Interest is exploding! In the last four years alone, the number of students interested in careers in energy, cleantech, and sustainability has grown fivefold! At the same... View Details

20 Feb 2014
News

Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

There’s no problem the business world can’t solve. That’s the thinking of Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2008), who believes companies—and the great minds who run them—can find sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises. “For whatever reason,... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

July 2012
Case

Generation Investment Management

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Matthew Preble

Examines the investment process of Generation Investment Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Energy Generation; Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Welfare; Financial Services Industry; India; United Kingdom

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01 Jun 2011
News

Housing Solutions for the Urban Poor

Rakhi Mehra (MBA ’09), cofounder of micro Home Solutions, is the 2011 recipient of the HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Based on the principles of community involvement, affordability, and sustainable design, the New Delhi–based... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Clean Slate

says. To get there, Massport is reducing the carbons tied to the operation of its airports, container ship and cruise terminals, and all related equipment and vehicles. Logan’s central heating system represents the biggest opportunity: Converting that to a more View Details

15 Mar 2021
Blog Post

REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AS BEI DIRECTOR

complex and multi-dimensional. We connect faculty, alumni, students, and staff to grapple with questions such as, “Are our students prepared to lead sustainable organizations?” “What do our alumni need to know about climate risk?” “How... View Details

09 Feb 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Executive Compensation and Misconduct: Environmental Harm

Keywords: by Dylan Minor

September 2010 (Revised November 2010)
Case

Ze-gen: Commercializing Clean Tech

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Kaitlyn Lyons and Scott Prozeller

The Ze-gen case covers the first five years in the life of a clean-tech start-up. Ze-gen had developed an innovative technology that converted solid waste into synthesis gas (called syngas). This technology was in testing at the company's pilot plant, built next to the... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Environmental Sustainability; Commercialization; Green Technology Industry; New Bedford

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