Climate Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Younger Black Knowledge Workers BIO As global leaders prepare to meet in Glasgow, the prospects for mitigating the impact of climate change do not look very good. A detailed new analysis from the Rhodium... View Details

14 Feb 2019
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Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

innovation.” The impact of climate change will be felt around the globe in the coming years. Learn more about the implications for business in this HBS Background Note. Consider how Boston will look as sea... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Sending a warning about climate change dangers

Dan Abbasi (AB 1986, MBA 1998) has produced “Years of Living Dangerously,” a Showtime TV series about the impact of climate change. (Published April 2014) View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective

with Amram Migdal (a former research associate) and Mike Lynch (MBA 2017) for the Business, Government, and the International Economy class to help students explore the impact of policymaking on business around View Details

02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?

make an impact on climate change. So now he's exploring how to apply that same machine learning approach he used to design golf clubs to design sorbents—these molecules that can bind to carbon dioxide and... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

for tomorrow. The BEI aims to leverage HBS’s unique platform to help move the needle on climate change and accelerate climate solutions. Critical issues such as these are also among the focal points for... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

05 May 2020
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Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

“Work was lucrative and fun and often hugely interesting, but it was something I did before returning to real life.” Business was ever-changing, but nature was constant. It wasn’t until in the mid-2000s, at her brother’s urging, that she started to read about the... View Details

25 Apr 2014
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Taking up the issue of climate change

As chairman of Walt Disney Studios, Alan Horn (MBA 1971) is in the business of creating magical worlds that captivate audiences. He also is passionate about the real-world issue of climate change and its View Details

20 Oct 2023
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How ENGOs Can Support Corporate Climate Change Efforts

17 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

such a critical issue for our nation and the world, and for seeing that it’s also the greatest investment opportunity of our era. Christian Weeks (MBA 2010) CEO, enVerid Systems Every year, the world adds 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. To avoid... View Details

21 May 2019
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Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest

Reserve Bank of Chicago’s imposing building to discuss with thought leaders and entrepreneurs the impacts of climate change on the agricultural sector of the American Midwest. “Climate change forces us to... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

11 Aug 2022
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Why Companies Aren't Living Up to Their Climate Pledges

01 Sep 2007
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How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change

What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In “UBS and Climate Change — Warming Up to Global Action?” Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance

26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

users’ credit card purchases and then connects users with offsets they can buy to mitigate their footprint. Part of Pal’s motivation for building Joro was that she wanted a tool that would not only allow her to better measure the impact... View Details

27 Aug 2021
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Vanguard Companies Tap Their Firm’s Collective Intelligence to Achieve Social Impact and Financial Success: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

26 Nov 2018
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New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change

climate change and its impact on their industries. They want to talk about it.” Alumni explored investment risks and opportunities in climate change at HBS Club of New York... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; clubs; alumni clubs

26 Oct 2020
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A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions

questions in the Zoom chat box).” The chats for both events were active throughout the 75-minute conversations with alumni using the topic to network over their interest in climate change and social impact... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

21 Mar 2024
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OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC

leaders and policymakers understand the disproportionate impacts of climate change on low income and marginalized communities. Spar and Choi touched on a range of issues, including the vital importance of... View Details