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Activating a Legion of People | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
fundraising activities, corporate outreach, and an emerging area, conservation finance, which includes growing sustainable revenue streams through mechanisms such as carbon offsets. Impact Much of my work at the United Way focused on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
increase sales and shareholder value. Coke and Pepsi both want to increase the amount of carbonated soft drinks that we consume. If Pepsi and Coke go after each other in advertising, they will turn off consumers and reduce demand for both... View Details
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Sustainability Resources for HBS MBAs
(Hart) Strategies for the Green Economy (Makower) Cradle to Cradle (McDonough and Braungart) Business and think-tank resources McKinsey Featured Insights / Climate Change Carbon Commentary Newsletter World Economic Forum Platforms... View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
industry moved from steel tubes to carbon fiber ones, the cluster took hold in Taiwan because that's where the expertise is in fabricating and molding carbon fiber. "If the prices go up there, it's not like... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
carbon per metric ton of cement — half from the energy required to heat the kilns to a blistering 1,500 degrees centigrade, the other half from carbon burned out of the limestone in the production process.... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details
- 25 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2022
sustainability showed the wide variety of ways we can adapt, from Patagonia’s internal Environmental Profit and Loss metric which comes way before financials in their product evaluations, to Representative Sean Casten’s #HotFERCSummer campaign focused on implementing... View Details
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Smriti Jayaraman
diminishes both the carbon footprint and utility bill of an American household, or a rural Internet kiosk that provides market prices to Brazilian fisherman by day and disease diagnoses by night. If technology can be an enabler for good,... View Details
- 02 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy
carbon footprint. MJ cited a 2020 study included in the National Library of Medicine, which estimated that individual yearly carbon emissions could be reduced by almost 19 gigatons if all secondary school... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Nordisk. At United Technologies, whose products include Carrier air conditioners, Otis elevators, and Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, a recent integrated report focused on such nonfinancial metrics as lower fuel consumption and noise emissions in a new jet engine... View Details
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Ben Steiner
Princeton and with TARP, Ben has interned with the Clinton Foundation, where he spent six weeks in Malawi helping farmers form a collective for greater market power; and two weeks in Rwanda, facilitating a carbon-exchange program: European companies would obtain View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
became its own initiative, with Kapoor as the head: “My goal—our goal—is to move to autonomous, electric, shared fleets,” he says, thereby unlocking simultaneous gains in safety, carbon emissions, and urban congestion. The future has... View Details
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Rob Self
the wonders of the world for our future generations.” “I started my career in auto,” Rob says, “because it’s simultaneously something that impacts just about every person in the world while being a huge contributor to carbon emissions. I... View Details
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Sustainable investing and ESG resources
Datastream Formula Builder, choose "Constituent Lists," (under category) and then use the "find series," option to search for Refinitiv ESG in the Explorer window. LA4CT is the mnemonic for Asset4. 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
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 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
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
key take-aways that may shape how they approach the remainder of their time at HBS and their careers going forward. Here’s what they said: Angela N. Son I decided to take this SIP because I realized that I’ve been hearing a lot about climate mitigation (e.g., View Details
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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog
4-5, focused on a particular research work stream. Potential work streams include energy generation (renewables, cleaner fossil fuels, decentralized solutions, and biomass), mobility, clean-tech, agriculture, urban resilience and adaptation, hard to abate sectors... View Details
- 15 May 2020
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second, larger fund to support companies developing ecologically efficient food production technologies—innovations that can reduce carbon emissions, plastics, and packaging in the supply chain and improve land and water use. "Many large... View Details