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28 Oct 2021
News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

(HBSWANY), presented the discussion in partnership with the nonprofit Girls With Impact to explore how Pivotal Ventures, an investment and incubation company, is using philanthropic and investment capital to fund innovative startups and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

09 Mar 2021
Blog Post

New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk

School, and the world as we confront the realities of climate change and its associated responsibilities and opportunities for the business community. BEI faculty chair Mike Toffel looks forward to his continued partnership with Lynn,... View Details

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Issues of Participation and Rights Allocation in Tradeable Permits Systems to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By: James K. Sebenius and Michael Grubb

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Climate Change; Pollutants; Science-Based Business

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25 Mar 2022
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2022

event for MBA students to come together to learn and discuss the business implications of climate change. At ClimateCAP, students were able to gain a deeper understanding of the tangible business impacts of... View Details

01 Sep 2024
News

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

transition as a means for the organization to develop new products, reach new customers, and create whole new markets.” George Serafeim (DBA 2010) is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he co-leads the View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Meyers

March 1, 2020
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Walking the Talk

By: Peter Tufano

Keywords: Climate Change; Business Education; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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Sustainable investing and ESG resources

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News and information covering the sustainable and impact investment markets. Our subscription includes the daily publication, The Brief, as well as their... View Details

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Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Industrial Production & Materials Refrigerant gases, cement, and plastic are materials ripe for innovation Industrial activity that produces many of the materials used in commerce, as well as consumer products... View Details

19 Mar 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

Business MBA students participating in Harvard Business School’s Climate Change Challenge offer ideas on how companies can negate impacts from a changing environment. Understand that solutions don’t come... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy

17 Dec 2015
News

A Bridge to the Future

practical and poignant. The program included keynote presentations from two Harvard University professors: Jonathan Zittrain, who spoke on the future of the Internet; and Daniel Schrag, who addressed the impact of View Details

16 Sep 2019
News

Smarter Farming

Zealand is a contributor, now, towards climate change, with so much of our animals contributing to global warming. And people were becoming very skeptical and cynical about farming's role in New Zealand society, given the social View Details

Keywords: meat; dairy; cattle; Agriculture

27 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series –Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction Cover image features Adenike Ogunlesi This year’s annual UN conference on climate change, COP28, will take place in... View Details

01 Mar 2007
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Gore All Business at HBS

students during a talk titled “A Change in Business Climate” presented in Burden Auditorium in December. Gore explained that the population explosion, coupled with the revolutions in science and technology, have greatly magnified the View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

18 Mar 2020
News

Leading Change

featuring Donald S. Beyer, U.S. Congressman from Virginia and Co-Chair of the New Democrat Coalition Climate Change Task Force; Anne Kelly, (Harvard Kennedy School, 1996) VP of Government Relations, Ceres; Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006),... View Details

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

emissions, decarbonization and sustainable energy technologies, and incentives for climate action. Conor Hickey Research fellow in the Climate Research Programme at the University of Oxford's Environmental... View Details

23 Oct 2019
News

Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society

For example, in “Reimagining Capitalism,” Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, examined how the private sector might play a major role in driving the systemic change needed to address big problems like View Details

Keywords: Educational Innovation

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Collections | Working Knowledge

impact. Social Responsibility and Sustainability Explore insights on social responsibility and sustainability—from climate finance to AI in refugee resettlement and impact investing. Managing the Business... View Details

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

weather an Ebola outbreak. We have lived with the consequences of increasingly visible problems, such as gun violence and the volatile weather of climate change, that make it hard to carry out business as usual. That’s why I wanted a call... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project | Information Technology

categories. The course highlights the role of capitalism and markets, and one of the goals is to teach about the impact of consequences on market economies, including the impact of View Details

16 Feb 2022
News

Holding Business to Account

returns but who also use the unique access and voice we have as investors to engage management and redirect corporate efforts toward long-term sustainability.” The firm has been active in encouraging companies to be leaders on issues from View Details

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