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we also should be deeply concerned. The rule of law, the separation of powers, and trust in institutions are the foundations on which thriving societies are built. They also are a bedrock of business. As my colleague Rebecca View Details

2013
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Constructing Green: The Social Structures of Sustainability

By: Rebecca Henn and Andrew J. Hoffman

Buildings are the nation's greatest energy consumers. Forty percent of all our energy is used for heating, cooling, lighting, and powering machines and devices in buildings. And despite decades of investment in green construction technologies, residential and... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Green Building; Transition; Social Issues

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10 Jun 2021
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Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Cofounders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

managing performance, but also translates it into ESG metrics relevant to their industry. “The metrics we use are based on the latest academic research (including research from HBS professors Rebecca View Details

18 Jul 2018
News

Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community

Rebecca Sumner Lien (MBA 1993) (photo by Genevieve Shiffrar) Rebecca Sumner Lien (MBA 1993) (photo by Genevieve Shiffrar) A part-time job at a... View Details

Fall 2020
Article

Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual and the End of the World as We Know It

How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution... View Details

Keywords: Sustainable Business; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability

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2022
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Interrogating Corporate Purpose: Values Based Firms and the Struggle to Build a Just and Sustainable World

Book Abstract: Defining a just economy in a tenuous social-political time. If we can agree that our current social-political moment is tenuous and unsustainable—and indeed, that may be the only thing we can agree on right now—then how do markets, governments, and... View Details

Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Social Issues

31 Jul 2012
News

What's the long-term impact of the EU’s carbon market crisis?

29 Aug 2023
News

Conservatives Fight Back against Environmental and Socially Conscious Investments

21 Aug 2018
News

What Would It Take to Get Businesses to Focus Less on Shareholder Value?

September 2021
Article

Innovation in the 21st Century: Architectural Change, Purpose, and the Challenges of Our Time

Understanding the process of innovation has been a central concern of management researchers, but despite this progress, there remains much that we do not understand. Deepening our knowledge is critically important given the enormous environmental and social challenges... View Details

Keywords: Architectural Innovation; Systemic Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Sustainability

01 Mar 2012
News

Thinking Green

As part of the cross-University program Harvard Thinks Big, in December six professors from different Harvard schools offered their thoughts on climate change. University Professor Rebecca Henderson and... View Details

Keywords: awards; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Mining; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

2007
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Eli Lilly's Project Resilience: Anticipating the Future of the Pharmaceutical Industry

Keywords: Projects; Strategic Planning; Pharmaceutical Industry

summer 1993
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Underinvestment and Incompetence as Responses to Radical Innovation: Evidence from the Photolithographic Industry

Keywords: Investment; Competency and Skills; Innovation and Invention; Fine Arts Industry