Conservation - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 2011 (Revised October 2012)
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Patagonia Sur: For-Profit Land Conservation in Chile

By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas Ibanez and Jay Verjee

Warren Adams founded Patagonia Sur in 2007 as one of the world's first for-profit land conservation businesses. His goal was to purchase over 100,000 acres of land in southern Chile and to run a variety of sustainable businesses to generate annual returns for... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Environmental Sustainability; Profit; Investment; For-Profit Firms; Entrepreneurship; Investment Return; Revenue; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital; SWOT Analysis; Real Estate Industry; Chile

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Diffusion of Energy Conservation Technologies

By: D. A. Leonard

Keywords: Technology Adoption; Energy Conservation; Energy Industry

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2021
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Two Case Studies on the Financing of Forest Conservation

By: Andrew Baxter, Connor Cash, Josh Lerner and Ratnika Prasad

A variety of factors is leading to fresh approaches to the ownership and management of forestland, with an emphasis on the combination of conservation goals and private investments. But the barriers to successfully achieving attractive financial returns and desirable... View Details

Keywords: Financing; Forestry; Environmental Management; Natural Resources; Financing and Loans

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Shark Harvesting and Resource Conservation

By: K. A. Wade-Benzoni, A. E. Tenbrunsel and M. H. Bazerman

Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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29 Jul 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Two Case Studies on the Financing of Forest Conservation

Keywords: by Andrew Baxter, Connor Cash, Josh Lerner, and Ratnika Prasad

09 Aug 2023

Life at HBS Chat: Conservative Voices

Virtual Life at HBS Chats are a unique opportunity to hear straight from current HBS students regarding their MBA experience. Join a panel of students from the Republicans Club who will share their backgrounds and how they have cultivated their personal and... View Details

09 Jun 2014
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Conservative Investment, $1 Billion Payoff

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Voluntary Simplicity Lifestyles and Energy Conservation

By: D. A. Leonard

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability

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24 May 2011
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June 2011: Where Conservation Means Business

24 Apr 2014
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Protecting conservation land while turning a profit

lands with important conservation attributes, usually in partnership with regional and national land trusts and conservation organizations. Through the conservation... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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Conservative Americans Are Building a Parallel Economy

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Why Economic Conservatives Should Support the Individual Mandate in Health Care

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Although many conservatives are gnashing their teeth about the Supreme Court's upholding the individual mandate, had it not been upheld, their worst nightmares would have occurred: government would have required hundreds of billions in additional taxes to pay for... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Industry; Health Insurance; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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12 Nov 2013
HBS Seminar

Mark Tercek, MBA '84, The Nature Conservancy

29 Jun 2012
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Why Economic Conservatives Should Support the Individual Mandate in Health Care

November 2004
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Unemployment Benefits As a Substitute for a Conservative Central Banker

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch

In the many years since their introduction, positive theories of inflation have rarely been tested. This paper documents a negative relationship between inflation and the welfare state (proxied by the parameters of the unemployment benefit program) that is to be... View Details

Keywords: Unemployment; Welfare State; Compensation and Benefits; Inflation and Deflation

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24 Apr 2014
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A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line

Protecting the country’s conservation land while also turning a profit guides the business model at The Lyme Timber Company. David Hoffer (AB 1990, MBA 1995, JD 1996), managing director at the timberland investment management firm, says... View Details

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Energy Conservation Behaviour: Three Thumbs Up For Social Norms

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz

Social norm interventions are widely used to foster residential resource conservation. Now researchers have shown that the effectivenes of providing information about others' energy use alongside messages of social approval for energy savings behaviour depends on the... View Details

Keywords: Energy Conservation; Behavior; Change

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The Critical Role of Second-order Normative Beliefs in Predicting Energy Conservation

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz, Oliver P. Hauser, Julia D. O'Brien, Erin Sherman and Adam D. Galinsky

Sustaining large-scale public goods requires individuals to make environmentally friendly decisions today to benefit future generations. Recent research suggests that second-order normative beliefs are more powerful predictors of behaviour than first-order personal... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Household; Behavior; Values and Beliefs; Forecasting and Prediction

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