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2018
Dictionary Entry

Communicating about Climate Change with Corporate Leaders and Stakeholders

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

Within the corporate sector, climate change represents an unfolding market shift, one that is driven by policy but also by pressures from a variety of market constituents such as consumers, suppliers, buyers, insurance companies, banks, and others. The shift takes... View Details

Keywords: Adaptation; Climate Change; Transition; Innovation Strategy; Markets

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September 2021 (Revised March 2022)
Teaching Note

Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation

By: Benjamin Roth

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17 May 2023
Podcast

Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

Today, as a bonus, we’re sharing an episode of the Skydeck podcast that features interviews with HBS alumni where they share lessons learned and their life experiences. We thought this episode of Skydeck would be particularly interesting to you because it focuses on... View Details

25 Nov 2019
Podcast

Business and the Politics of Climate Change

What influence does business have on the politics of climate change? In today’s episode, we'll look at how climate change affects different businesses, and how proposed regulations like a carbon tax could help or harm business. Weighing in with their unique... View Details

27 Mar 2024
Podcast

Building Climate - Resilient Cities and Infrastructure

This episode in our climate adaptation series features HBS Professor John Macomber. John discusses how companies and governments need to incorporate climate resilience as they develop and finance real estate and infrastructure to address the risks of flooding,... View Details

09 Dec 2015
News

The US advantage at Paris climate talks

04 Dec 2024
News

Climate Change Experts See Dark Clouds Ahead

08 Apr 2024
News

Harvard Launches Third Sexual Misconduct Climate Survey

14 Nov 2017
News

Students help groups to pursue climate action

23 Oct 2017

Are Carbon Tariffs Protectionism or Climate Policy?

10 Apr 2024
Podcast

How Insurance Companies are Addressing Climate Risks

This episode in our adaptation series focuses climate change’s implications on the insurance industry. Claudine Blamey, Group Director of Sustainability at Aviva, describes how climate change evokes both transition risks and physical risks for insurance companies, and... View Details

22 Jun 2014
News

Pension Funds Urged to Publish Climate Risks

10 Nov 2022
News

The Looming Legal Showdown on Climate Justice

09 Mar 2018

Technology & Operations Management: Climate Change Challenge

29 Apr 2021
Podcast

Critical Climate Infrastructure: Scott Jacobs, Generate Capital

Generate Capital invests in and operates technologies that provide distributed clean energy and energy efficiency, electric vehicles and charging depots, and waste transformation—technologies important to efforts to mitigate climate change. CEO Scott Jacobs (HBS MBA... View Details

30 Aug 2023
Podcast

An Investor’s Perspective on Corporate Climate Action

Today’s episode in our corporate net zero climate series features Paul Bodnar, Director of Sustainable Finance, Industry, and Diplomacy, Bezos Earth Fund, and former Global Head of Sustainable Investing at BlackRock. Paul discusses how investors approach the complex... View Details

22 Jun 2014
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Pension funds urged to publish climate risks

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Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks: Cross Registration 2024 Fall

By: John D. Macomber

HARVARD | BUSINESS | SCHOOL

CITIES, STRUCTURES, AND CLIMATE SHOCKS

Senior Lecturer John D. Macomber

HBS 1487

Fall, 2024

Cross... View Details

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a responsibility and a real opportunity to... View Details

31 Jan 2024
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Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

The HBS Business and Environment Initiative launched the Climate Rising podcast in 2019 to elicit insights from leaders working at the intersection of business and climate change. The podcast is particularly... View Details

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