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- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
It's been said that in this century, carbohydrates will replace hydrocarbons, and biology will supplant physics as the innovation-producing science. As science fiction becomes science fact, and with science-based firms presenting unique challenges for managers, HBS is... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
trust we have lost with society," Nohria told some 100 attendees. "It is an extraordinarily promising idea as important a topic as we have at this time." The workshop, the first conference sponsored by HBS's new Business and View Details
- 02 Nov 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs
Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel
- 22 Aug 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America During Globalization Waves
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
At the beginning of January, over two hundred senior executives and government officials from around the globe met at Harvard Business School for the fortieth annual Agribusiness Seminar. They represented every facet of the "global food system"—from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- Conference Presentation
Servicizing: Are There Win-Wins? In Search of Economic and Environmental Benefits
- November 1990
- Article
The Greenhouse Effect: Negotiating Targets
Sebenius, James K. "The Greenhouse Effect: Negotiating Targets." Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 32, no. 9 (November 1990): 25–30.
- 17 Apr 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios Under Emissions Regulation
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Tapping into a sustainable enterprise that provides income for indigenous Mexican families
that allows indigenous Mexican populations to earn vital income by planting seedlings and developing pine-tree forests on their degraded lands. Arias-King, president of T&R Chemicals in Texas, uses natural pine resin tapped from trees to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources
experts granted the privilege of sharing her knowledge, Henderson used her time, she says, "to tell him everything I know about business, energy, and the environment." Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor and codirector of the Business and View Details
Keywords: Dalai Lama
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
involving green baby products when his partner interviewed for a job running The Nature Conservancy's Boston office. The partner returned from the interview saying he thought Roberts would be much better suited for the job. Roberts held... View Details
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
should venture capitalists around the world get behind climate change agreements? Should governments with highly-favorable environments for entrepreneurship, such as the U.S. and China, push even more strongly for stringent rules or... View Details