Carbon Offsetting - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

the federal government or from Wal-Mart. The solution comes from lots of us deciding that we are going to do what it takes to solve this problem.” In April of this year, Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018) launched Joro—an app that works like a Fitbit for your View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Case Study: Glass Half Full

can be turned into usable products. The company ships the glasses in carbon-neutral packaging, with an additional carbon offset to guarantee the product’s neutral environmental impact. The market for... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online

Featured Exercises Evaluate how your company measures its emissions and how it might reduce them Identify key emissions sources and variables companies should consider when selecting a mitigation project to pursue Assess the pros and cons associated with pursuing... View Details

03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

employment regulation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50041 November 2015 Accounting Review The Effect of Target Difficulty on Target Completion: The Case of Reducing Carbon Emissions By: Ioannou,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

public firms. Most importantly, they fail to account for offsetting equity issuances by firms. We show that, taking into account issuances, net shareholder payouts by all U.S. public firms during the period 2005–2014 were in fact only... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

was a timber conservation program that NEES conducted in Malaysia in 1992. By helping local harvesters to develop tree-felling techniques that left more of the flora intact, NEES was able to offset an estimated 580,000 tons of View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

Sustainability needed to develop positions on several issues. Tactically, he needed to recommend whether the company should purchase carbon offsets to help meet its aggressive greenhouse gas reduction... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 20

W. Toffel, and Stephanie van SiceHarvard Business School Case 611-049 Seeking to go beyond global best practices in reducing environmental impacts, FIJI Water, a premium artesian bottled water company in the United States, launched a View Details