Environmental Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jun 2014
News

Turning "Black Gold" to Green

decades and accounts for roughly 5 percent of domestic US oil production. However, it's not particularly environmentally friendly: EOR companies mostly tap naturally occurring fields of CO2, transport the gas to the mature oil fields, and... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Mar 2003
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Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships

Forest L. Reinhardt, John D. Black Professor of Business Administration Forest Reinhardt, an authority on the use of natural resources, serves as course head for the required Strategy course and also teaches the MBA elective Business and... View Details

Keywords: fellowships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Sustainability in CPG and Retail

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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog

entrepreneurs (both for-profit and non-profit) who want to lead effective social enterprises that create impact and ultimately solve big social and environmental problems. Business leaders who seek to influence the systems that can... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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Environmental Management, Associate Professor Forest Reinhardt argues that managers should treat environmental management as an integral part of corporate strategy rather than... View Details

January 2012 (Revised September 2015)
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Tough Decisions at Marks and Spencer

By: George Serafeim

In 2007, under the leadership of CEO Stuart Rose, the iconic British retailer Marks and Spencer, with great fanfare, announced its "Plan A" initiative. Based on the five essential pillars of climate change, waste, sustainable materials, fair partnership, and health,... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry

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18 Oct 2016
Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

reputational benefits by integrating community, employee, consumer, and environmental health efforts into a single health impact strategy and appointing a chief health officer to oversee all four. Firms with... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

April 2025
Teaching Note

Aramco: Navigating the Energy Transition

By: Tarun Khanna and Samir Junnarkar

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 725-358. View Details

Keywords: Energy Transmission; Oil ＆ Gas; Economic Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Leadership; Business Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Transition; Environmental Sustainability; Diversification; Energy Industry; Saudi Arabia

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08 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

in Business, Energy and Environment, held in Harvard's Innovation Lab. "It's a question of who will make money and which business models are effective." Although the definitive answer to that question remains to be seen, Henderson helped students develop... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Utilities

22 Oct 2009
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Investing in Clean Energy

Keywords: John Doerr, MBA '76; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs

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Forest L. Reinhardt | About

author of Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management , published by Harvard Business School Press. Like that book, many of his articles and papers analyze problems of View Details

1998
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Economic Performance, Strategic Position, and Vulnerability to Ecological Pressures among U.S. Interstate Motor Carriers

By: Jack A. Nickerson and Brian S. Silverman

Keywords: Truck Transportation; Environmental Management; Competitive Strategy; Performance; Shipping Industry; United States

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01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

investors alike that, as Gaurav Goel put it, "Sustainable businesses have lesser risks associated with their future earnings ... triple bottom line (economic, social, and environmental sustainability) reduces uncertainty." Or as... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Jun 2023
Blog Post

The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)

Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) leadership team, then-BEI Director Jennifer Nash and BEI Faculty Chair and Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management Mike Toffel, sparked the idea for the podcast. They thought it... 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

December 2005
Article

The Strategic use of Decentralized Institutions: Exploring Certification with the ISO 14001 Management Standard

Keywords: Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Management

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01 Aug 2014
News

A closer look at the industry of beauty

homogenization persists, the purchasing power of emerging economies, aging populations, and increasingly multiethnic US consumers has now led to a new sensitivity to diversity. Further, Jones has found that today's generation of industry leaders has a greater awareness... View Details

24 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 24

across sectors and reduced private-sector rents. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2365524 Scrutiny, Norms, and Selective Disclosure: A Global Study of Greenwashing By: Marquis, Christopher, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Under increased pressure to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

of publicly traded U.S. firms over 16 years, we investigate the impact of corporate socially responsible (CSR) strategies on security analysts' recommendations. Socially responsible firms received more favorable recommendations in recent... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne