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- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
compensate for carbon emitted elsewhere. Patagonia Sur partners with corporations, families, and academic institutions to offset all or a portion of their carbon footprint. HBS grads attending the 2011... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
shifting carbon footprint when they have a big life event? Jen Flint: One of the side effects of this crisis has been that we all abruptly stopped getting in our cars and boarding airplanes, we stopped all... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
governments can provide, firms serious about addressing it have a critical role well beyond greening their own operations. They must spur government action. But few are. "Green business" as currently practiced focuses on limited operational... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
notably, Grundfos seeks to be carbon neutral by 2050. Since 99% of the pump’s overall carbon footprint is from the electricity used to power them while they’re in use (which... View Details
- Portrait Project
Yanni Liu
I am what I eat. I am what I feed. I will nourish the world against people's hunger, planet's thirst, and profit's desire. I will write my own definition of success and fold it into a home-baked fortune cookie. I will leave behind carbon... View Details
- Portrait Project
Smriti Jayaraman
diminishes both the carbon footprint and utility bill of an American household, or a rural Internet kiosk that provides market prices to Brazilian fisherman by day and disease diagnoses by night. If... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
global scale. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711492-PDF-ENG Carbon Footprints: Methods and Calculations Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van SiceHarvard Business School Note 611-075 Describes methods to calculate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment
With its negligible carbon footprint and demand for eco-friendly products, jute offers economic and environmental benefits. For these alternatives to succeed, robust market systems, infrastructure... View Details
- Web
Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment
technologies. At Athena Cleantech, we are helping companies minimize their carbon footprint while creating an ecosystem for sustainable technologies to scale rapidly.” Prashant Pundrik PLDA 9 Director,... View Details
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
the opportunity to work with a startup based out of MIT and an amazing team who’s working to fundamentally change the chemistry of cement in a way that is economically sustainable,” he tells us. (03:46) By adopting green cement in construction and real estate... View Details
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
of power that is relatively low cost, predictable, and sustainable. The exhaust stream also includes carbon dioxide, and Amager Bakke began piloting a carbon capture system in 2021. The current system can... 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
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details
- Blog
Inside the Learning: The Impact of a Personal Case
In this video, she discusses how her work during and after AMP enabled her organization to take advantage of a new market opportunity, create a more sustainable business model—and potentially impact the carbon View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
on nonfinancial metrics such as lower fuel consumption in new jet engines, and a reduced carbon footprint and lower water consumption in the firm’s factories. The juxtaposition of information on both... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
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Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment
offers an opportunity to make a 15% IRR by cutting your home’s carbon footprint to zero. I have done it.” David Green HBS MBA 1991, Founder & CEO, Zero Carbon “ 68% of World... View Details
- 16 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Sophie Levin (MS/MBA 2022) - How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future
long-duration energy storage, and greywater recycling. Low-carbon cement can drastically reduce the carbon footprint of construction, long-duration energy storage will enable more reliable renewable energy... View Details
- 03 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen
the decision. The Van den Ende brothers explained how optimization for a single crop enhanced both yield and sustainability. In today’s context, auction houses are considering implementing systems to reveal flower carbon View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
climate change, I couldn’t justify the carbon footprint of getting on an airplane every week,” Fenwick-Smith recalls. Aravaipa was also an open-ended fund, in part because Fenwick-Smith was uncertain about... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market
euros. Currently overseeing 4.9 million square meters of real estate, RFH is ambitiously planning the construction of two additional facilities, further expanding its footprint in the global flower market. With the area of its warehouses... View Details