Climate Risk - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2021
What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

communicating both the business benefits (including the risk of not changing) (and for employees) ‘what’s in it for me.’” The predominant message of respondents was that culture change is a complex process often requiring years to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 May 2018
Blog Post

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

practice he calls “radical transparency.” That means “giving most everyone the ability to see most everything (to reduce) harmful office politics and the risks of bad behavior more likely to take place behind closed doors than out in the... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

issues that came out of that bust. So they’re almost too conservative. They’re not investing in infrastructure as much as they could or should. I’ve literally called banks while working on real estate development projects, and they’re going, ‘Nope, we’ve got enough of... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

05 May 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

"Denial might be best categorized as a form of risk taking." Aruna Sharma pointed out that "It's all about buying time to see if something can be done to reverse the trend ." Joe Schmid opined, "Denial is the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

01 Dec 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

Alumni Books Dual Momentum Investing: An Innovative Strategy for Higher Returns with Lower Risk by Gary Antonacci (MBA 1978) (McGraw-Hill) Antonacci explains his investing method, which combines U.S. stock, non-U.S. stock, and aggregate... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

climate change, and economic resource nationalism. Readers will learn how risk management is being transformed from a business prevention function to a values-based framework for thriving in increasingly... View Details

19 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 19

wealth of data it provides about agents' behavior and about the Bitcoin system itself. This article presents the platform's design principles and properties for a non-technical audience; reviews its past, present, and future uses; and points out View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2018
News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

step toward successful integration. Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet by Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) and Carl Pope St. Martin’s Press Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the former head of the Sierra Club... View Details

07 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

once a very secretive industry, to take increasingly public stances on the risk of human-induced climate change and the need to take urgent action to contain it. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

the assumed fraction of residues that can be sustainably removed from the field, and the potential of municipal solid waste as a feedstock depends on which components can be economically converted into liquid biofuels. Becoming the Lamp Bearer: The Emerging Roles of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog

opportunities and risks will they create for business leaders? What ethical choices will they force business leaders to confront? In November 2022, the introduction of ChatGPT brought the potential and power of Generative AI into public... View Details

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

YaleGlobal piece mentions Growing Sustainable Business and the Investment Climate Facility for Africa as positive collaborations between business, government, and nongovernmental organizations. Are there other examples that provide hope... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

23 Sep 2021
News

Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies

1982), Masako Egawa (MBA 1986), Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), and Masato Nakamura (MBA 2020). “We will have monthly talks with different perspectives: measurement (accounting), corporate, venture, renewables, historical, climate View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

understand which data is relevant. On average, our study found that only about 20 percent of data in any given industry is material from an investment standpoint. That has huge implications in terms of the signal-to-noise ratio. For example, View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

28 Oct 2021
News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

society. Applegate, an entrepreneurship expert, broke down the steps that Pivotal Ventures has taken to “bend the curve” with gender equity, including developing an ecosystem model, managing risks and measuring the impact of investments.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

09 Dec 2021
News

Higher Returns

ESG. Environmental, Social, and Governance. And Steel wasn’t just hearing it, he was seeing it. At some point, it felt like he would see a new story every day about companies that were grappling with climate change, racial justice, or... View Details

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Wartime Innovation - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

and altitude in a laboratory that included a climatic room, altitude chamber, and treadmills. The Lab made over 150 recommendations concerning clothing, nutrition, and survival gear to the War Department. One recommendation included the... View Details

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

enduring strength of the corporate climate in South Africa, says Eric D. Werker, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. Werker's case study, "Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa," to be published in December,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Dec 2019
What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

in. Employees were warned that pay was at risk if the targets weren’t met. According to one BloombergBusinessweek report, “They were targeting the highly paid, highly experienced engineers.” One flight test group member commented, “It was... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation

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