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Transportation - Business & Environment
Confronting Climate Change Transportation Transportation is the fastest-growing source of greenhouse gas emissions The transport sector accounts for about 14% of the world’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and about half of global oil... View Details
- August 11, 2016
- Article
Is Cap-and-Trade or Carbon Tax Better for Business?
By: Luk N. Van Wassenhove and David F. Drake
Van Wassenhove, Luk N., and David F. Drake. "Is Cap-and-Trade or Carbon Tax Better for Business?" INSEAD Knowledge (August 11, 2016).
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
mentors, investors in the Boston area (including my current Entrepreneurial Finance professor, Jim Matheson!), and fellow entrepreneurs passionate about addressing climate challenges. I’m also really... View Details
- 27 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant
Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
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STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
mentors, investors in the Boston area (including my current Entrepreneurial Finance professor, Jim Matheson!), and fellow entrepreneurs passionate about addressing climate challenges. I’m also really... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Joe…
promising breakthrough technologies that could have a real impact on energy-intensive industries like electric utilities, oil and gas, chemicals, and mining, and then provide financing to help build fast-growing start-up companies. As an... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Provides high tech products and services for building energy efficiency Jeffrey Brown (MBA 1983) Summit Power Group, LLC. Seattle, Washington Developer of electric power projects Michael Cavallo (MBA 1978) Clinton Climate Initiative New... View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
Widely deemed the most important piece of security legislation since formation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was born into a climate still reeling from the burst of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
1977) is chairman and CEO of Buenos Aires-based Velox Group, a privately held organization with a line of supermarkets, banks, and finance companies spanning five South American countries. He notes, "You need to be prescient, nimble, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance
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Joseph Abel
Ever since his undergraduate days at Harvard, Joe Abel has been pondering the consequences of global climate change. “When you think of the things that have the potential to cause trouble,” he says, “all of them are made worse by View Details
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IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details
- 06 May 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup
life, I began thinking more about how urbanization might stress our existing systems, and how technology can help make urban living more sustainable. With this lens in mind, I applied to HBS with the goal of exploring the exciting world of startups and venture capital... View Details
- 16 Nov 2022
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US DOE’s Jigar Shah & the State of Carbon Removal
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details
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Micah Macfarlane
market failures for climate change but less response from society. "We are just worse at thinking about climate impacts, which feel further away than they really are. I want to be part of the... View Details
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impact. Social Responsibility and Sustainability Explore insights on social responsibility and sustainability—from climate finance to AI in refugee resettlement and impact investing. Managing the Business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner offers a timely look at what works... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
A legacy of social and environmental respect
ultimately brought him to Cambridge for a transformational experience. “It gave me the courage to become an entrepreneur,” he says. In 2010, Parija founded Blue Lines Shipping Group, a highly successful venture that enables him to finance... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
investment in infrastructure, install a climate change denier to chair the House subcommittee on climate change, and try to make it harder for young people and poor people to vote." —Andrew Tobias (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Thinking Green
As part of the cross-University program Harvard Thinks Big, in December six professors from different Harvard schools offered their thoughts on climate change. University Professor Rebecca Henderson and Professor of Management Practice... View Details