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  • 25 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

phenomenon,” he observed. “Investors from endowments or sovereign wealth funds expect an ESG lens. European investors are requiring it. Climate impacts pose large risks, and if you stick your head in the... View Details

    How to Make Climate Risk Good Business

    The risk profiles of many real estate markets are rapidly increasing globally. Insurers and mortgage brokers are taking note and adjusting their offering based on widely available climate data and predictive analytics. John Macomber suggests that consumers and... View Details
    • 18 Feb 2022
    • Blog Post

    Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

    pressing need for changes to infrastructure. One point that stood out to me was the impact of climate on health outcomes, particularly looking at quantifying the co-benefits of healthy buildings. In... View Details
    • Article

    Accounting for Climate Change

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
    Corporations are facing growing pressure—from investors, advocacy groups, politicians, and even business leaders themselves—to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their operations and their supply and distribution chains. About 90% of the companies in the S&P... View Details
    Keywords: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation; Social Accounting; E-liabilities; Business And The Environment; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability
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    • 22 Apr 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?

    The idea of supporting social change has propelled impact investing assets to more than $1 trillion. But what if those funds aren’t as impactful as investors expect? Recent Harvard Business School research... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 01 Oct 2021
    • Blog Post

    Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

    innovators alike grapple with both the impacts of climate change and how to build a more sustainable system for the future. Right now there is enormous opportunity (and need!) for strategic thinkers and... View Details
    • February 2020 (Revised March 2020)
    • Case

    Prime Coalition: Catalytic Capital for Climate Innovation

    By: Ramana Nanda, Benjamin N. Roth and Olivia Hull
    With long development timelines and high risk, new energy technologies were often left to languish in the “valley of death,” unable to raise enough funds to bring a product to market. In 2014, Sarah Kearney founded the nonprofit Prime Coalition to solve this problem.... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Conservation; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Mission and Purpose; Science-Based Business; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States
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    • 12 Sep 2023
    • Blog Post

    Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

    Egypt, Australia, Ireland, Ecuador, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Kenya among others. Within the U.S, the geographical spread is just as wide, with founders from Boston to Texas. And about two-thirds of Climate Circle teams are led by women or... View Details
    • 19 Nov 2021
    • Blog Post

    Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

    and innovators alike grapple with both the impacts of climate change and how to build a more sustainable system for the future. Right now there is enormous opportunity (and need!) for strategic thinkers and... View Details
    • 29 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.

    Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 24 Sep 2014
    • Op-Ed

    Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change

    attention, and thereby educate people to influence the tide of events. Prominent business leaders have a bully pulpit, if they want to take it, on the issue of climate change and environmental sustainability. Today's business leaders have... View Details
    Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Energy; Utilities
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    Investing: Risk, Return and Impact (MBA)

    By: Shawn A. Cole

    This is an investing/finance course, designed to build on skills introduced in the RC finance course, but with an emphasis on how and whether investors should incorporate what have traditionally been considered “non-financial” criteria in their decisions: for... View Details

    • 01 Oct 2021
    • Blog Post

    Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

    innovators alike grapple with both the impacts of climate change and how to build a more sustainable system for the future. Right now there is enormous opportunity (and need!) for strategic thinkers and... View Details
    Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
    • 17 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?

    Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
    Keywords: by Tim Gray
    • 19 Sep 2019
    • News

    Podcast Roundup: Climate Issues Top of Mind for Faculty and Alumni

    • October 2024 (Revised November 2024)
    • Case

    SWEN Blue Ocean: Impact Investing Goes to Sea

    By: Vikram S Gandhi and David Allen
    In August 2023, SWEN Blue Ocean, a €170 million impact fund that invested in startups contributing to ocean sustainability, faced a critical investment decision. Part of SWEN Capital Partners, an €8 billion, Paris-based private equity fund, Blue Ocean was co-founded in... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Technology; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Finance; Capital; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment; Investment Funds; Science-Based Business; Financial Services Industry; France; Paris; Italy
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    • 26 Apr 2022
    • News

    Leading on Climate Change

    Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) welcomed Her Excellency Mariam Bint Mohammed Saeed Hareb Almheiri, the Minister of Climate Change and Environment for the United Arab Emirates, and Paul Polman,... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley
    • 10 May 2023
    • Video

    Beyond Business as Usual: Climate Disruptors

    • 27 Sep 2019
    • Blog Post

    HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis

    Talking About Climate Change in the MBA Classroom Cause or solution? Risk or opportunity? How business leaders should own up to and tackle climate change is at the forefront of the MBA classroom at Harvard Business School. Students from... View Details
    • 22 Apr 2020
    • Research Event

    How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

    Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services