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- 19 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
across the country. HBS visited Tata Power’s Trombay Power Station on a sunny Mumbai day. Despite the temperate weather, visibility was quite low due to significant air pollution – an AQI of over 200 – which... View Details
- Portrait Project
Tomiwa Igun
electricity supply in Nigeria. Boundless opportunities exist if businesses can be unshackled from exorbitant costs of self-generated electricity. Imagine Nigeria — electrified. All of West Africa — powered. No more missed championship games. No more View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
their cars’ batteries to the grid during the trial period between 2019-2020, Erika explained. Because of its local air pollution, China is the strongest market for EVs, Erika said. She credited China’s two-front strategy to prepare the... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
government is already trying to retire smoking as a cultural currency, driven by the fact that lung cancer increased by almost 500 percent in China between 1980 and 2010, and that air pollution is at an... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
only the costs for capital, labor, and traded goods but also social costs like the effect of air pollution on health or even the value people derive from the continued survival of an endangered species. At... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Twenty-five years ago, the average businessperson did not need to think too much about the environment. Although there was concern over clean air and water, safe food, and an intact ozone layer, people didn't summon the words "the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
industries predicted dire economic consequences from the 1970 Clean Air Act-including the end of the automobile and "irreparable damage" to the America economy. Yet history has shown that industry responses often hugely overestimate the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
structures that we occupy. The authors make the case that the characteristics of where we live and work—things like air quality, acoustics, and lighting—have a massive impact on our physical and mental health, and lay the foundations for... View Details
- Web
Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment
pollutants that cause climate change. Transitioning to fossil-fuel free energy sources for these processes, improving efficiency and reducing waste, and bringing low-carbon alternatives to market could dramatically reduce greenhouse gas... View Details
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
emissions, restructuring the urban environment can have an enormous positive impact on the global climate. Within a relatively contained geographic space, a city's "inputs" of water, transportation infrastructure, energy and breathable View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
several very large companies cannot, on their own, get us there. In fact, historically, no big environmental problem, from air and water pollution to acid rain or ozone depletion, has ever been solved by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
balance are our priorities,” says Yang. Pro-worker and pro-environment policies aren’t just a social good at Esquel. “They save money and strengthen our competitive advantage,” notes Yang. For example, polluted water impedes the... 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
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
public spaces that will absorb carbon and provide cooler ground temperatures for local populations to electrifying two- and three-wheel transportation to mitigate air pollution in major cities, there are so... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
widely used would reduce the amount of fossil fuel we ultimately burn. Taken together, these developments perhaps serve as a snapshot of the environmental landscape today. On the one hand, scientific indicators continue to warn of the long-term effects of air, water,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
the Arctic. There are multibillion-dollar mineral reserves — copper, zinc, gold, diamonds, lead — as well. Most people don’t know that FedEx and UPS have very large hubs in Alaska and that most of the world’s international air cargo now... View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
levels of related expertise; (ii) subsidiaries exhibit significant heterogeneity in this expertise; and (iii) the subsidiaries are more diversified and less concentrated. We examine the efforts to diffuse pollution prevent practices... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
the conditions under which P-Will would work—and not work? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/419035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-058 BreezoMeter: Making Air Pollution Data... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details