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  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact

MORE Watch three students discuss their approach to the climate change challenge MORE Watch three students discuss their approach to the climate View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Private Regulation, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change: A Business History Perspective

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones
Private regulatory systems, including voluntary efforts by firms to restrain their own behavior are the primary form of global climate change governance. However, when environmental challenges first rose up on the scientific and political agendas during the 1970s, the... View Details
Keywords: Certification; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Business History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy
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  • November 29, 2023
  • Article

To Earn Trust, Climate Alliances Need to Improve Transparency

By: Peter Tufano, Chris Thomas, Knut Haanaes, Matteo Gasparini, Robert Eyres and Christopher Chapman
Businesses are increasingly joining together as part of climate alliances to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels. But these alliances raise antitrust issues: When competitors collaborate, it can come at the expense of customers or workers. To mitigate... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Partners and Partnerships; Corporate Disclosure; Energy Sources
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  • 23 Oct 2019
  • News

Confronting Climate Change: From Business as Usual to Business as Vital

  • 2023
  • Case

Christiana Figueres and the Collaborative Approach to Negotiating Climate Action

By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
This case study centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to build momentum for, and ultimately pass, the 2015... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Regulation; International Relations; Leadership
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  • January–February 2013
  • Article

A Field Investigation of Multilevel Cynicism Toward Change

By: K. A. DeCelles, Paul E. Tesluk and Faye S. Taxman
Although most research on cynicism toward change (CTC) has been conceptualized at the individual level, we propose that CTC is better conceptualized as a multilevel phenomenon, acting as both an employee attitude and an organizational climate. We conducted a multilevel... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Change Management; Attitudes
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  • 31 Mar 2017
  • News

How Can Business Schools and MBAs Contribute Toward Climate Action?

  • 08 Nov 2024
  • Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

Center and a member of the executive committee of the Harvard University Center for African Studies. You Might Also Like: COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now? The View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy
  • 1995
  • Chapter

Towards a Winning Climate Coalition

By: James K. Sebenius
Keywords: Climate Change; Alliances; Negotiation
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  • March 2025
  • Teaching Note

Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena: Ticket to a Greener Future

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 325-110. CEO Tim Leiweke reviewed the process by which his newly formed Oak View Group had managed a major rebuild of a landmark arena in Seattle which attracted a National Hockey League franchise and major entertainers concerned about... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Leadership; Bids and Bidding; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Green Buildings; Construction; Partners and Partnerships; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Seattle
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  • February 2017
  • Case

Valerie Daniels-Carter: High Growth Entrepreneurship via Franchising

By: Steven Rogers and Alyssa Haywoode
This case looks at entrepreneurship via franchising through the leadership of an African-American entrepreneur who owns almost 150 stores including Burger King, Pizza Huts, and Auntie Anne’s Pretzels. Her company is the largest female-owned franchise business in the... View Details
Keywords: Giving And Philanthropy; Weather And Climate Change; Franchise Ownership; Family Business; Experience and Expertise; Decisions; Borrowing and Debt; Food; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business History; Climate Change; Motivation and Incentives; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • Fast Answer

Climate change: facts and figures

includes economic geology, engineering geology, environmental geology, geochemistry, geochronology, geophysics, hydrogeology and hydrology, marine geology and oceanography, petrology, structural geology, and more. WIREs Climate View Details
  • December 2021
  • Article

Three Paradoxes of Climate Truth for the Anthropocene Social Scientist

By: P. Devereaux Jennings and Andrew J. Hoffman
Climate change has been one of the most contested truths for the past two decades. Many social scientists within the academy and this volume have spent years discerning the nature of this truth and articulating its importance for business, organizations, and society.... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Knowledge Sharing
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  • 14 Nov 2024
  • Blog Post

Weekend Sprint: Accelerating Climate Solutions

in early-stage ClimateTech companies. To start off the day, Professor Jim Matheson provided critical background knowledge on the context of climate change, exploring both the key problems and opportunities that View Details
  • Web

Climate Impact - Business & Environment

Alumni Climate Impact Alumni Climate Impact Alumni Founders: How is Your Company Accelerating Climate Solutions? Eric Adamson MBA 2013 | Co-Founder & CEO, Tortuga AgTech “At... View Details
  • February 2007 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

UBS and Climate Change--Warming Up to Global Action?

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Forest L. Reinhardt and Elizabeth Raabe
Marco Suter, Executive Vice-Chairman, UBS Board of Directors, carefully studied the chart on his desk. It showed the public commitment of major financial institutions to help mitigate global warming. Evidently, UBS lagged behind its competitors. The graph was part of a... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Energy Conservation; Cost vs Benefits; Law; Financial Institutions; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Accountability; Financial Services Industry
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  • 02 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy

change education is spotty at best. This fall, New Jersey became the first state to integrate climate change topics across grade levels and content areas. Anecdotally, MJ has... View Details
  • March 2025 (Revised March 2025)
  • Case

Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena: Ticket to a Greener Future

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Tim Leiweke reviewed how his development group and partners had completely rebuilt an aging Seattle landmark into the world’s greenest arena, carrying the visible name Climate Pledge Arena. It had attracted a new National Hockey League franchise, the Kraken, and... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Leadership; Bids and Bidding; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Seattle
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  • 23 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 05 Nov 2019
  • Blog Post

Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact

the spectrum, which was part of what drove me to enroll in the MBA program.  What influenced your decision to go into clean tech? I’m definitely passionate about the environment and interested in finding ways to contribute to solutions to our environmental challenges,... View Details