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  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Mission Possible

opportunities to become change agents for society by creating pattern-breaking approaches and sustainable solutions, explains HBS lecturer Stacey Childress. Unlike business entrepreneurs who are motivated by profits, social entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

Case 118-030 JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership In 2017, JetBlue, the airline founded on the mission to “bring humanity back to air travel,” became one of the first companies to report performance according to the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

vision for the organization of the future; reveals the workplace innovations that emerged during the pandemic; and defines the new model of leadership for sustaining continuous change throughout the coming years of opportunity and... View Details
  • September 2011 (Revised February 2013)
  • Case

Trucost: Valuing Corporate Environmental Impacts

By: Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van Sice
Trucost provided corporate environmental performance data and analysis to institutional investors and corporate managers, but after operating for a decade had yet to achieve profitability. Trucost was struggling to effectively differentiate its high quality products... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Distribution Channels; Investment; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Information; Value; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry
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  • Web

Ty Geri | MBA

matters. Professional goals: My long-term goal is to build and scale technology products that enable people to live healthier lives in a sustainable world. I think the way to get there is by learning from and collaborating with people who... View Details
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

A Climate Change Optimist

says. Green America’s sustainable supply chain networks provide peer learning, support, and connections to innovations. “I love the market-solution focus of what we do,” says Gravitz, noting that, in recent big utility buys, solar and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe
  • 22 Jul 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance

Keywords: by Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim
  • September 1994 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

Hamilton Test Systems, Inc.

By: William A. Sahlman and Norman Klein
The protagonists must decide whether to invest in an auto emissions testing company as the first investment in the leveraged buyout fund they recently formed. Issues of how to raise the needed equity capital and how to structure the acquisition are emphasized. View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Leveraged Buyouts; Environmental Sustainability; Investment; Service Industry; Auto Industry
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  • Article

It's Not Easy Being Green: The Role of Self-Evaluations in Explaining Support of Environmental Issues

By: Scott Sonenshein, K. A. DeCelles and Jane E. Dutton
Using a mixed methods design, we examine the role of self-evaluations in influencing support for environmental issues. In Study 1—an inductive, qualitative study—we develop theory about how environmental issue supporters evaluate themselves in a mixed fashion,... View Details
Keywords: Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Performance Evaluation; Cognition and Thinking
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  • February 2009 (Revised August 2012)
  • Background Note

Note on Socially Responsible Investing

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Ian McKown Cornell
This note describes Socially Responsible Investing, providing a brief history, description of different socially responsible investing approaches, and overview of selected players and institutions involved in the socially responsible investing field. It has been... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 03 Dec 2015
  • Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy
  • 22 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention

world, but “I went into energy at Enron. I thought Enron was innovative. The company used creative finance to bring power projects to life.” After Enron folded, Nisha continued her career in sustainable energy and infrastructure ventures.... View Details
  • Web

Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog

coherent systems strategy, collaborating with others, building power, and mobilizing change. Since the skills required to sustain effective engagement with social systems can differ subtly from the organizational management skills often... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

prevailing research norm. The Role of Finance and Private Investment in Developing Sustainable Cities Author:John D. Macomber Publication:Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 23, no. 3 (summer 2011) Abstract Three trends will drive urban... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Marco Crespo

education in Brazil and help children achieve their full potential. Through my experience at BCG, I realized the amazing impact I could have with the Senna Foundation, helping them become financially sustainable and continue to impact the... View Details
  • 08 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: London

chat between Professor Peter Tufano, Baker Foundation Professor and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability as well as former Dean of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, and Paul... View Details
  • Web

Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon | Information Technology

Featured Case Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon This multimedia case study delves into the leadership transition at lululemon, focusing on new CEO Christine Day's challenge to sustain the fitness retailer's growth amidst... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Alumni Eager to Help Shape School’s Future

maintain an educational relationship with HBS over a lifetime? Professional Development — How can alumni use HBS as an ongoing resource for professional and career development? Those are the tangible elements that alumni see as important to View Details
Keywords: Ann Kelly
  • 25 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry

Climate Stories: Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry In this first post of “Climate Stories,” Jacqueline Adams engages with Kameale C. Terry, CEO and co-founder of ChargerHelp! Terry is a veritable unicorn, an entrepreneur in the sustainability... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS

successful door-to-door salesmen. Yunus described several sustainable “social businesses” (all profits to the enterprise) he has launched in Bangladesh. They include Grameenphone, which put cell phones into the hands of millions of poor,... View Details
Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services