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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
End Game
Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
teach by the case method in new and different modalities. These were huge lifts for our IT and operations teams and for our faculty and students, and we failed fast (and often) many times before we were satisfied. But we also learned a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
annual SXSW Pitch Event in the Enterprise and Smart Data category. “Inventory in commerce is a really big problem from both an environmental and a financial perspective,” Theuerkauf notes. The problem is especially acute in the fashion... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
world has ever seen. The current climate crisis is far beyond an environmental issue—it is an existential crisis. Moreover, it converges with—and exacerbates—the crises we face in biodiversity, global health, and social justice. As... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Management, BEI Faculty Chair Michael Toffel studies how companies are managing environmental and working conditions in their operations and supply chains, including how companies are engaging in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
Image by John Ritter Is there a business case to be made for companies to act in environmentally friendly ways? Rebecca Henderson: If one can imagine that all business in the entire world was run by one person, it’d be pretty... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
problems. Supply chains will be disrupted. There will be new conflicts over water, resources, and human migration. The very physical integrity of factories and buildings will be threatened. So what can businesses do? For most firms, View Details
- 23 Feb 2021
- News
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the Business and Environment Initiative Five years ago, as George Serafeim recalls, if he had walked into the classroom on the first day and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Sustainable Farming in the Arid World
operate sustainably. “I started Sundrop Farms about four years out of the MBA program. Most people don’t know but agriculture consumes about 50 percent of your operating costs are related to fossil fuels.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
our business; (2) improve operational efficiency and use energy from sustainable sources; (3) develop climate change adaptation and mitigation programs; and (4) do a large-scale watershed management program to ensure sustainable raw water... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
CURRAN: "The most important thing I learned is that central planning in such situations doesn't work." Courtesy Dan Curran International relief agencies that raced to aid Indonesia’s tsunami-ravaged Aceh province have a lot to learn from the unique management... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
participate in two simulations in the required Technology and Operations Management (TOM) course. The “Shad Exercise” provides a sense of the challenges of managing a complex process. In teams of 12, students design and implement a... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the Business and Environment Initiative, says HBS faculty are developing and teaching cases that incorporate View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
mitigation. And because cities are discovering that the greener they are, the better their quality of life and the greater their competitive advantage, they have by necessity become innovative, reality-based drivers of environmental... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
need for management experience in nonprofits, and I decided to try to combine my business skills with my commitment to the environment," says Kendall. He embarked on a "classic business school analysis of the industry," talking to the leaders of many local, regional,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
modern container shipping, the ship is really a relatively small part of costs,” observes McCown. “Everything ship-related might only be 30 percent of the carrier’s total cost. The biggest cost is fuel.” Both economics and environmental... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Smith. Not only has Starbucks created a "third place" for the customer between work and home, but it has also launched a number of environmental and community-oriented initiatives. "We have a great culture in this company," Smith... View Details