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- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
responses across countries shows that these responses mirror popular sentiment about climate change. For countries whose populations had come to see global warming as a pragmatic collective threat, efforts... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change
What do Chinese coal plants and the American legislative branch have in common? They are both major adversaries in the fight against climate change, according to former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón. "The most serious problem is in the United States... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
anything possible? If so, should we even be concerned about such things as global warming or even death? Can innovation save us from ourselves? What do you think? References: Diane Ackerman, The Human Age:... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
energy use and waste, and many have integrated sustainability into strategic planning. What's not to like? Well, for starters, these actions don't meaningfully address the primary barrier to sustainability, climate change. According to the International Energy Agency,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
environmental issues such as global warming and limited natural resources, as well as geopolitical instability issues in certain regions of the world. This is nothing new for the oil and gas players. They... View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
processing line at Calera's R&D facility in Moss Landing, California. It was late May 2009, and Calera was an early-stage venture-backed company headquartered in Los Gatos, California with a promising vision to reverse global View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
for our entrepreneurship measures and find a persistent link between entrepreneurship and city employment growth; this connection works primarily through lower employment growth of start-ups in cities that are closer to mines. These effects hold in cold and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
sector. This is a big problem when product development cycles and election cycles don't mesh; government funding may be available with one administration and gone with the next. Consider California's Global View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge depending on the tradeoff between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
probabilities below present values," adding that failing to do so could lead to losses upwards of $1 trillion annually. "Most skeptics I have come across are not skeptical of global warming or climate change... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
warm shareholders to the benefits of the risk management tools you suggest? A: Whenever the firm is undertaking new strategic directions, including implementing strategic risk management that may use derivatives, it is wise to communicate... View Details
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
incentives make a difference in whether global warming and its fallout are contained. A growing number of climate solution startups count on government spending to give their customers purchasing power and a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111003-PDF-ENG Cree, Inc.: Which Bright Future? David J. Collis and Mary FureyHarvard Business School Case 711-457 When global warming concerns caused governments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
on longer term leadership development.” The growth of remote work resulting from the global pandemic has affected both the importance and nature of middle management. Esther Derby asserts that the “role for middle managers is more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
among adults around the world, and the warm glow of giving can be detected even in toddlers. These benefits are most likely to emerge when giving satisfies one or more core human needs (relatedness, competence, and autonomy). The rewards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne