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- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
standards and data. Many governments around the world have begun assigning prices to carbon dioxide emissions, but it’s unclear if they can agree on a common global standard. Without industrywide measures, firms have been taking their own... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
reducing carbon emissions gradually to achieve an 83 percent reduction by 2050. The centerpiece of this legislative package is the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (known as the Waxman-Markey bill). “Entrepreneurs, venture... View Details
- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
social change leaders. The competition is prestigious; past recipients have achieved tremendous success in their missions, including Teach For America, a nonprofit organization that recruits young college graduates to teach in low-income neighborhoods, and View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System
production, we can also reduce the amount of forests and grasslands that are cleared for traditional agriculture (and avoid releasing tons of carbon into the air), protecting our world’s carbon sequestration... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
(steel consumes vast amounts of electricity to run its core processes) and circular material usage (ways to abate some of the carbon emissions in steel production, but not all); carbon capture and storage... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss
environment. Over the last few years, I increasingly thought about how I can have a maximum impact on guiding, fostering, and encouraging the transition to a carbon free energy system that is needed to deal with climate change threats. At... View Details
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
a more sustainable world." Martine Drageset MBA 2015 | A Catalytic Conversion "Engagement and passion matter, and that's why people come to HBS." Bill Eacho MBA 1979 | Carbon Neutral “The most effective way to address the climate crisis... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Climate Change
On Sunday, 300,000 activists took to the streets of New York for the People's Climate March, the biggest climate protest in history, and the United Nations on Tuesday held the Climate Summit. In the spirit of Climate Week, we present insights from members of the... View Details
- 17 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Student Conference: Climate Symposium 2021
provided by public and private markets. 2. There is no silver bullet solution and we need to be all-in on all solutions. Throughout the conference, we discussed numerous solutions to fight climate change, ranging from fusion energy to View Details
- 03 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen
carbon dioxide for the greenhouses from a Shell refinery in Rotterdam. During the transition from gas-based heating to geothermal energy, the company also buys green power for their existing 15MW electric cogeneration facility. Cold... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
microorganisms use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to photosynthesize sugar, proteins, and fat—the latter in the form of an oil that can replace fossil fuels in applications where batteries either can’t store enough power or are... View Details
- 20 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)
infrastructure—e.g., low carbon cement, green fertilizers, ocean alkalinity enhancement. How do you see your current role and/or company having an impact on climate change? For novel climate tech startups, it is incredibly challenging to... View Details
- 17 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures
use, enabling cost-effective EV charging and reducing grid stress by smart load shifting. First Element Energy - Michael Alexander (MBA 2024), Charlie Mitchell (MBA 2024) - First Element Energy is a natural hydrogen exploration and production company that will provide... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A reformed fiscal policy is vital to renewing US productivity
It would be far better to do so now, rather than at some future date, under duress, when our creditors have begun to lose faith,” Vietor says. He advocates a 2 percent VAT, new taxes on gasoline and carbon emissions, and spending cuts in... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
production, we can also reduce the amount of forests and grasslands that are cleared for traditional agriculture (and avoid releasing tons of carbon into the air), protecting our world’s carbon sequestration... View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
production, we can also reduce the amount of forests and grasslands that are cleared for traditional agriculture (and avoid releasing tons of carbon into the air), protecting our world’s carbon sequestration... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
certain. What worried the company's leadership was the prospect of Reb A taking off—that is, being widely accepted by consumers and used by food and beverage (F&B) companies in mainstream mass-market products such as carbonated soft... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Climate change as must-see TV
When a Hawaiian observatory reported in 2013 that carbon dioxide levels in Earth’s atmosphere had reached their highest point in some 3 million years, many people concluded that climate change was unstoppable. But Dan Abbasi (AB 1986, MBA... View Details
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
private-sector industries (e.g., oil and gas, automobiles) and their lobbyists and water carriers in Washington ensured that fledgling alternative-energy industries, perhaps America’s best hope for a manufacturing future, would not get the tax, public policy, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)
carbon-neutral beers. We also interviewed experts who explained the tricky nature of carbon offsets, and the opportunities and challenges they pose to companies using them to achieve their net zero goals. Not to turn away from our own... View Details