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Managing sustainability in supply chains

I am examining codes of conduct, management process standards, and government voluntary programs that address environmental and labor issues, seeking to understand what enables some of these programs to actually deliver on their promise of distinguishing organizations... View Details

Keywords: Environment; Environmental Performance; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Strategy; Regulation; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Service Industry; Construction Industry; United States; California

August 2019 (Revised April 2021)
Case

Unifying Divisions: Joro's Mission to Preserve the Planet

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Marilyn Morgan Westner

The case focuses on the initial startup team and Founders’ agreements. In March 2018, Sanchali Pal proposed renegotiating the informal founders’ agreement and equity split she and her co-founders had drafted the previous spring. They had been working together for over... View Details

Keywords: Founders' Agreements; Business Startups; Climate Change; Agreements and Arrangements; Conflict Management

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19 Aug 2019
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Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition

highlighted above. Here are three of my favorite things about my internship. 1. Investing in forefront technologies to reduce the global carbon footprint Shell has set ambitious goals to invest $25-30... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology

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Podcast - Business & Environment

plan to achieve it. She also describes how Seventh Generation is going beyond a carbon footprint to measure its carbon fingerprints that touch every aspect of their business,... View Details

30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

products company decided to set a real zero climate goal instead of net zero, and how they plan to achieve it. She also describes how Seventh Generation is going beyond a carbon footprint to measure its... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

19 Sep 2023
Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

critical battery materials for the energy transition. They have developed an electro-extraction technology that saves up to 90% carbon emissions relative to traditional refining technologies. The technology has a small View Details

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

because this gap discourages research effort directed towards clean technologies. Carbon taxes and research subsidies may nonetheless encourage production and innovation in clean technologies, though the transition will typically be slow.... View Details

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

Four years ago, I got involved with coaching and career education programs. This led me to working with students interested in industries such as consumer products, retail, sustainability, agribusiness, and hospitality. Living sustainably and minimizing my View Details

29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

own emissions based on their spending data they could be spending less or more in any given month, so people who emit less might pay as little as $10 a month. For instance, students who have lower credit card purchases or people who have large families or high View Details

06 Sep 2022
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Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Product Management at Patch Patch is an API-based solution with solutions for carbon credit suppliers and companies ready to take climate action. Patch enables companies to embed carbon View Details

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld

incentives and tracking for embodied emissions:While EcoWorld was full of cutting-edge innovations to minimize the carbon footprint of its operations (see Figure 5), the approach to reducing embodied... View Details

23 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

of emissions on a farm-by-farm basis. Arla has developed a sustainability incentive model to incorporate the carbon footprint of each farmer’s milk production as a factor in their compensation. By allocating... View Details

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

study there. The two-year project included the creation of the Bloomberg Center, an extension of the building’s southern footprint and new south-facing entrance named to honor William Henry Bloomberg, the late father of New York City... View Details

11 Apr 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

to the water used by 100,000 homes. 90 percent of water use happens in a company’s supply chain. Understanding suppliers’ water risk and footprint is critical to giving companies confidence both in their surety of supply and their own... View Details

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Career Support - Business & Environment

PACE Capital, a California–based financing firm focused on empowering commercial property owners to reduce the carbon footprint of their buildings. After studying economics and environmental science at... View Details

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

emerging examples of innovative technologies, financing structures, policies, and geo-politics that are reshaping our global economy as it struggles and strives to transition to a lower carbon footprint and... View Details

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