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- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
manual typewriter 17 years ago, put away the carbon paper in favor of the "cc" line on email only 12 years ago, and began watching video on your computer just a few years ago. Now there is a growing sense that the desktops and... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
laboratories for student and faculty work in areas such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric energy; sustainable production of rice, sugarcane, hay, mangoes, and beef; waste management; and carbon neutrality. An additional commercial growing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 13, 2008
search for solutions. BP successfully reduced its own carbon emissions, and championed cap-and-trade style regulation over taxation or command-and-control. Despite this progress, as the climate issue gains in political prominence and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Finalists | New Venture Competition
Nigerians with affordable financing for clean, reliable energy. We leverage group financing and carbon accounting to lower costs and risk in the energy transition of Nigeria's $14B fuel-based, off-grid generator market. Fluency Hiro... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
group had generated. These ranged from stabilizing the company's current carbon emissions to complete carbon neutrality. The UBS Corporate Responsibility Committee would meet early next week. Suter wondered... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
IPCC Reports,UN State of the Climate Reports, UN COP 27 Summary, Climate Change @ World Economic Forum Books: The Lean Startup, The Hard Things About Hard Things Job Boards: Climate Draft, Climate Base Podcasts: My Climate Journey Slack Groups: Air Miners for the View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
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 targets, and whether to continue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
Consumers in the United States are so increasingly into fresh, local, and carbon neutral that if someone figured out how to grow a tomato that could walk itself to the grocery store, they'd be a millionaire. So why is Mutti S.p.a., a... View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
Agency to institute such a program. The researchers examined the prevailing inspection system called On-Board Diagnostics II (OBD-II), which tests for excessive carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, and nitrogen oxides, and also checks the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
projects are not up to investment standards. How can the tools of finance be applied to more and better build power, water, waste, and transit efficiency projects? This matters a lot, regardless of whether you are worried about carbon or... View Details
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
industry around carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). "You change the world by building a market, and you build a market by building a profitable company that other people copy," said Dawe, C12 Energy's CEO. "In the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
50-60 percent recommended to minimize viral transmission. Sensors: Air quality and other measurable conditions. While it’s not currently possible to test directly for coronaviruses in the air, other measures like particulate counts, View Details
- 16 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design
report, Axios.com recently reported that garment production continues to grow annually by 2.7%, while 25% of garments remain unsold and less than 1% are recycled into new garments. Estimates are that the fashion industry is responsible for 10% of global View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
property technology for the Built World. The firm’s Climate Tech fund looks to invest in technologies built to help the real estate industry reduce its carbon footprint to zero and adapt in the face of a changing climate. Mike's role... 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
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
reason(s) for the center's shortcomings and develop a plan of action so that this center's problems do not undermine the whole initiative toward greater scientific collaboration. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412029-PDF-ENG FIJI Water: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
carbon dioxide sequestering for power generation fits all objectives, except it is not doable on the scale needed. Stobaugh’s book supports the inclusion of “externalities” in energy pricing, the implication being that, if included, this... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide that are released into the atmosphere when coal and petroleum products are burned. That same day, the Wall Street Journal reported that in California and Arizona, General Motors would this year... View Details