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For Guests | Commencement 2025
Spangler Center is available for guests and families to relax, make phone calls, and meet up with each other during and after morning Commencement activities. Sustainability If you are interested in offsetting your travel carbon... View Details
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) The financial economics of sustainability and climate change As business strives to reduce carbon emissions and transition to clean energy, Gasparini plans to study the financial economics of... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Welcome to the BEI Blog!
opportunities for students. BEI works with a team of over 30 faculty affiliates who are dedicated to researching every aspect of the impacts of climate change: how it will change the infrastructure of our buildings and cities; innovative solutions such as View Details
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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
- 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
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
for our shareholders" or "By pursuing sound environmental, social, and governance policies we are creating value for our shareholders, all other stakeholders, and society at large." Of course, sustainable strategies are not that easy. Investments to improve energy... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2008
- HBS Case
Economics of the Ethanol Business
think these things are unimportant and uninteresting, but that's never been true." Greater transparency may be brought about through the introduction of carbon trading markets, Reinhardt suggests—an area he is exploring in a future... View Details
- 26 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Week NYC 2023
highlighted the power of writing from diverse perspectives with the Imagine 2200 climate fiction project. Other discussions ranged from emissions from corporate finance, renewables and energy efficiency in supply chains, reinventing value chains to reach net zero,... View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center
to new materials, such as carbon fiber, to withstand the significantly higher loads. The Test and Validation Center is used to design and validate these new blade structures and materials. Testing Facilities Testing in-house is faster... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Information Technology
onto damp tissue paper. Carbon paper, following on the heels of the typewriter, was a considerable advance. In the 1950s, D&B, always on the alert for better copying and duplicating methods, became one of the first companies to embrace... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
have to make these decisions together because our global climate is all interconnected.” But, ultimately, Arctic ice restoration is only “a Band-Aid solution,” Payne says. To truly address climate change, the world has to come together and do the hard work necessary to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
and that we still need to get around,” he notes. “When commodity prices are kept low, we have a tendency to think these things are unimportant and uninteresting, but that’s never been true.” Greater transparency may be brought about through the introduction of 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
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
outdoors. I want to leave a world in which she can breathe the air, drink the water, and visit places that are still wild.” Ullman is proud to note that E2 was essential to the passage of a California law in July 2002 that limits carbon... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
ambitious goal is to be a “zero waste, zero carbon company, operating on 100 percent renewable energy in LEED certified buildings” by 2020. The case vividly documents some of the measures taken by Burt’s to meet that goal, such as a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
clean out their closets and earn some cash or score discounted used clothing and lighten fashion’s carbon footprint. Revitalizing Bricks and Mortar Under the guidance of product manager Soufi Esmaeilzadeh (MBA 2010), Google Maps comes... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
since the term ESG has been politicized and even weaponized during the on-going climate debate. Nisha cited an article by Jacqueline van den Ende, co-founder and CEO of Carbon Equity, who wrote: “ESG has been marketed as a means to have... View Details
- 25 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist
Series - Episode #18: Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Venture Capitalist and Water Evangelist “We need to get the water molecule on the same footing as the carbon molecule. This industry has not communicated effectively. Solving the water crisis... View Details