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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2024
force for good in society—a belief that is core to our company’s values. In Guyana, we’re partnering with the Mt. Sinai Health System and the Guyanese government to modernize the country’s health care system, and we also have made one of the largest private-sector... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules
Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
& Advertising Club Rob Self “I started my career in auto,” Rob says, “because it’s simultaneously something that impacts just about every person in the world while being a huge contributor to carbon emissions. I wanted to help people... View Details
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
Cynthia Capers Lexington High School Lexington, SC Subjects: US History, AP US Government NC Christopher Cappel Page High School Greensboro, NC Subjects: Civics/Economics, AP World History FL Rose Carbone Seminole Ridge Community High... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
Product Management at Patch Patch is an API-based solution with solutions for carbon credit suppliers and companies ready to take climate action. Patch enables companies to embed carbon footprint estimation... View Details
- 07 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
recent tax credits, loans, and grants passed in Washington will drive innovation, accelerate the transition, and demonstrate the U.S. commitment to a managed transition to a low/no carbon economy. Following the morning keynotes, attendees... View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
- Book
What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose
Parker is carbon neutral and advocates publicly on behalf of social issues, including immigrants’ rights, LGBTQ+ protection, and net neutrality. Like Mahindra, Warby Parker addressed the Too Many Bosses prob lem in the course of pursuing... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
propane, which is present in only ~5% of U.S. homes. Propane is attractive because it is the greenest carbon fuel and is available for widespread distribution in areas that do not have easy access to natural gas (North Dakota, Montana,... View Details
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Engaging Supply Chains in Climate Change
- 13 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01
included the two professors, Juerg Matter and Peter Kelemen, who had first discovered peridotite’s capacity to mineralise CO2. I joined him as his co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer. That was two years ago and we’re now an established View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 17 Jun 2011
- HBS Case
KFC’s Explosive Growth in China
Homogenization has made it easy for fast-food joints to circle the globe, spitting out carbon copies of themselves, their burgers, and their fries along the way. But in the most populous country in the world, a fast-food giant stepped off... View Details
- 28 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld
inspire through beautiful art displays. For example, at the center of one of EcoWorld’s many buildings stands a massive, completely carbon neutral cube, designed to create a space to connect with others and embrace nature (see Figure 2).... View Details
- 26 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
Fellowship. What is it and what impact do you hope to have? My ClimateCAP project is a venture idea I am building with a friend at MIT Sloan (whom I met in Kenya!). Our venture, NetaCarbon, aims to democratize access to the carbon market... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
carbon can be transmuted into a valuable commodity at scale. On the Brink of Utopia is a hopeful and visionary book that reimagines the roles of innovators, citizens, governments, and financial markets to foster innovation leaps that... View Details
- 23 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?
2025 and carbon net zero by 2050. These goals have been set and communicated by Arla’s central corporate sustainability team in collaboration with sustainability experts embedded throughout other corporate functions. At every step of goal... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
Confronting Climate Change Electricity Renewables, nuclear, and carbon capture offer massive market potential The combustion of fossil fuels to generate electricity is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and the largest... View Details
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman