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Kala Viswanathan
Kala Viswanathan (she/her) has always had an interest in using policy to help create a more sustainable world. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in civil and environmental engineering from Duke University and Stanford... View Details
- 19 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Evolution of Agribusiness
more sustainable practices. But, due to more efficient operating practices, new technologies, and increased levels of partnership and collaboration across the supply chain, the future for the industry is... View Details
- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
prove that the Passive House model could be implemented within a variety of architectural styles, opening the door to wider adoption in many different settings. Harper, who spent the first 20 years of her career in finance, launched Birchwood 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 Dec 2022
- News
Built to Last
Dallas or Succession,” says Weisiger, who started out working in a company warehouse at the age of 14. While those backstabbing, dynastic stories dominate popular imagination, operating outside the pressure of the quarterly earnings... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
Strugatz also have made sustainability a core principle. They realized, for example, that they were shipping 15,000 sample swatches each month, only to have them discarded once customers picked colors. So instead, Magagnini assembled... 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, environmental View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Wachsner, who also is responsible for building a trusted source of knowledge about sustainable food production at the Organic Production Intelligence Center. The four-day seminar draws nearly 200 industry leaders to campus from some 40... View Details
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) is cofounder and retired managing director of the Boston-based private equity firm Berkshire Partners and chair of the Environmental Defense Fund. In this video interview, he talks about his growing interest in View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Management, BEI Faculty Chair Michael Toffel studies how companies are managing environmental and working conditions in their operations and supply chains, including how companies are engaging in decarbonization. He hosts the HBS Climate... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the Business and Environment Initiative, says HBS faculty are developing and teaching cases that incorporate environmental sustainability issues for... View Details
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
helped him move on to an operations management role at an early-stage battery startup. Tell us a bit about your background before you came to HBS. I studied industrial engineering as an undergrad, and ended up doing a master’s degree in... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
goals, strategies, operational plans, and metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of a culture of health effort. Coordination of the effort at the top can include chief human resources executives, chief medical officers, chief View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
Not long ago, only 30 companies around the world reported data about their social and sustainability (that is, nonfinancial) endeavors. Today, more than 7,000 organizations do so. While that transparency is undoubtedly a good thing, the... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Disenchanted with the corporate world, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of operations for Australia’s Cobham Aviation Services and made a bold career and lifestyle change, moving to rural South Australia... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report
Thanks to diligent fiscal management and growth from income-producing activities, Harvard Business School finished fiscal year 2004 last June in a strong financial position. Total revenues of $309 million reflected a 5.1 percent increase over the previous year, while... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
says Kendall, executive director of the Henry P. Kendall Foundation, his family’s philanthropic organization, which is dedicated to creating a “resilient and healthy food system in New England that increases the production and consumption of local, View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
director and chief investment officer at Peony Capital, which operates in China. "They're in a new era of the green race, and it's all about the companies understanding the huge amount of commercial benefits in being green. It's not... View Details
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
Earning Potential
Sion Tesone (OPM 43, 2013) is the founder & CEO of Amani Enterprises, LLC, which operates the for-profit social enterprise TISSINI. In this interview, he talks about TISSINI’s aims to empower Hispanic women through friend-to-friend retail... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities... View Details