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  • 13 Jul 2015
  • News

Promoting renewable energy

After studying economics and environmental science at Dartmouth, Giulia Siccardo (MBA 2016) came to HBS to expand her skills with the goal of helping companies reduce their impact on the environment.... View Details
  • 16 Feb 2022
  • News

Holding Business to Account

realized, and they had a say in how a company ran and the ability to influence everything from labor practices to environmental policies. It would be years before the model Aiyer envisioned would be christened “impact investing,” but she... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services
  • October 16, 2023
  • Article

How a Defined Purpose Drove Unilever’s Turnaround

By: Ranjay Gulati
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
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  • January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
  • Case

PortageBay and ESG Analytics

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Radhika Kak
In 2023, sustainable investors faced several challenges. The first was the lack of access to standardized and vetted environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data, and equally, the interpretation of this data into investment-useful insights. Reducing reliance on... View Details
Keywords: ESG Ratings; Investment Funds; Governance; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • Spring 2018
  • Article

The Next Phase of Business Sustainability

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
The era of corporations integrating sustainable practices is being surpassed by a new age of corporations actively transforming the market to make it more sustainable. View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Trends; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Disclosure
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  • February 2009 (Revised August 2012)
  • Background Note

Note on Socially Responsible Investing

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Ian McKown Cornell
This note describes Socially Responsible Investing, providing a brief history, description of different socially responsible investing approaches, and overview of selected players and institutions involved in the socially responsible investing field. It has been... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 03 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

Is the economic downturn affecting the willingness and readiness of companies to look at the economic, social, and environmental impact of their business practices? Or is this a perfect time to reassess... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities
  • April 14, 2015
  • Article

The Type of Socially Responsible Investments That Make Firms More Profitable

By: George Serafeim
Keywords: Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility; Corporate Sustainability; Investing; Investment Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Profit; Investment; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 17 Apr 2019
  • News

Financing the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

tax” to mitigate the environmental impact of development through investment in conserving water-absorbing grasslands. Now the senior director of financing land conservation at investment bank Seale &... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

An Unconventional Suggestion

minimize the local environmental impact of extraction, and speed the transition to cleaner, lower-carbon energy. The report’s analysis found “no inherent trade-off between View Details
Keywords: April White; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities
  • 26 Sep 2018
  • News

Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

called the Katy Prairie Conservancy, in collaboration with the Houston Flood Control District, local governments, and area developers on what he calls a sponge credit. The credit would allow, for instance, a town to mitigate the View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Web

Martin Aares Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Building a Strong and Prosperous Society

book, Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire, Henderson says that we have failed to reenvision capitalism. It must be not only an engine of prosperity, she offers, but also a system that is in harmony with environmental realities,... View Details
  • Career Coach

Philippe Taieb

impact and on using hybrid business models to generate social and environmental value.  Work Experience: Social Impact Consulting & Coaching - Principal; City Year (youth... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Manufacturing; Social Enterprise; Sports; Clean Technology; Energy
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities
  • 14 Feb 2019
  • News

Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change

McCarthy said a two-pronged approach is required: take the politics out of climate change by making it a health and economic issue and properly communicate the science to the general public. As an environmental advisor to Governor Mitt... View Details
  • January 2020 (Revised April 2020)
  • Case

Fossil Fuel Divestment (Abridged)

By: Michael W. Toffel and Sarah Gulick
The president of Harvard University is facing growing pressure from students, alumni, and other climate change activists that are urging the university to divest its multi-billion dollar endowment from fossil fuel companies. The case summarizes the arguments for and... View Details
Keywords: Divestment; Harvard University; Higher Education; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Public Opinion; Ethics; Education Industry
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  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel