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- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
Area meant that I could choose what to eat, where to sleep, and what to buy. Being at HBS now means that I can choose how I make an impact the world. I do not take this responsibility lightly as I finish three years as a joint degree... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
a software company that encourages households to reduce their energy consumption. From Opower's earliest days, its managers utilized experiments to amplify their environmental impact and enhance customer... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Capital Group. He has 31 years of investment experience and has been with Capital Group for 25 years. Earlier in his career, as an equity investment analyst at Capital, he covered US construction and housing, machinery and engineering, View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
the company's bottom line, as well as the environmental or social impacts of one or more of its value chain partners. Theatre 3 encompasses programs targeted at fundamentally changing the business's... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
when we see a lot of light bulbs go on as students put into practice the technical and managerial concepts they’ve been learning in case discussions,” explains Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
Pons discusses what it means for US business leaders in confronting environmental challenges. 4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World In the face of today’s many messy problems, businesses must strive to help find... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
Seegull coauthored a policy paper, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and others, focused on engaging the federal government in impact investing to achieve social and environmental outcomes. "That opened... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
Zofnass Photo courtesy Paul Zofnass A longtime environmentalist, Paul Zofnass (MBA 1973) founded the Environmental Financial Consulting Group (EFCG) in 1990, after 17 years in finance at Citibank and at Oppenheimer (where he was managing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
problems. Supply chains will be disrupted. There will be new conflicts over water, resources, and human migration. The very physical integrity of factories and buildings will be threatened. So what can businesses do? For most firms, View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
I cause a problem that harms you, my neighbor, now, we might find a way to negotiate so that I don’t harm you as much, and I’d compensate you for the harm I’ve done. But our biggest environmental challenge these days is climate change,... View Details
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
exploration, Doppler oceanographic studies, avian research, socioeconomic environmental studies, community outreach, and litigation. Late last year, the Minerals Management Service (recently renamed the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management,... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
buildings and homes so they’re warmer in summer and cooler in winter has more impact than a lot of technology fixes for those same buildings.” Attitude adjustment can be driven by financial forces. Says Rebecca Henderson, the Senator John... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
debating in 2016 how quickly the firm should bring to market its novel microbiome-coated seeds, which increased crop yields, reducing the environmental impacts of farming. Some of their seeds were able to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
a path to the future.” Lassiter, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, has spent several years studying the intersection between entrepreneurial finance and View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
these efforts have brought real results. For example, many companies have increased diversity in their workforce. But overall, all these efforts have not been enough to actually stop or reverse serious challenges we are facing. View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
Zealand forestry and turn it into farming for animals. That involved cutting down a lot of trees, putting up a lot of fences, and putting lots of animals across some of New Zealand's most pristine country. Today, our mission is very different. The View Details