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  • 2018
  • Book

Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time

By: Geoffrey Jones
Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental changes risk making the Earth unsustainable within our own lifetimes, this book looks at the past of green business to identify lessons for the future. It provides... View Details
Keywords: Green Business; Sustainability; Business History; Eco-tourism; Organic Wine; Organic Food; Waste Management; Sustainable Finance; Ethics; Finance; History; Entrepreneurship; Accommodations Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; Energy Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Green Technology Industry; Tourism Industry; Europe; Asia; Latin America; North and Central America; New Zealand
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Jones, Geoffrey. Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time. Northamption, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018.
  • December 2017 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Tesla's Bid for SolarCity

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Raaj Zutshi
In October 2016, Tesla asked its shareholders to ratify their $2.4 billion bid for SolarCity. Tesla had announced a series of large projects in the preceding months including the unveiling of the Model 3, the new Solar Roof, and pushing forward the opening of the... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business and Shareholder Relations; Project Finance
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Wang, Charles C.Y., and Raaj Zutshi. "Tesla's Bid for SolarCity (A)." Harvard Business School Case 118-044, December 2017. (Revised June 2021.)
  • 20 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

How should a company deliver financial news—both good and bad—to a broad spectrum of stakeholders, including investors, customers, government, and environmentalists? Energy giants Total and BP have learned best practices through trial and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Energy
  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist
This working paper provides a long-term business history perspective on environmental sustainability. For a long time, the central issues addressed in the discipline of business history concerned how business enterprises innovated and created wealth, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Perspective
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Bergquist, Ann-Kristin. "Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-034, October 2017. (Revised November 2017.)
  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'

Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis; Financial Services; Mining
  • 30 Apr 2020
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Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy
  • 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
  • 02 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 28 Jan 2020
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Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

There can be long dry spells when nothing seems to go right, and bumpy paths whether unexpected obstacles loom. But advanced leaders get through it and thereby product new models for the world. Richard Fahey wanted to bring affordable alternative View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

responsibility efforts, including investing in solar energy and environmentally friendly farming with his sights set on reducing the company's carbon footprint. "The more we leaned into development in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 08 Nov 2024
  • Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy
  • 07 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities
  • 08 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?

better, the system would work well with alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power, unlike the existing energy system, which has a tough time with renewables.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Energy; Energy
  • 07 Oct 2013
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The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

the effects of rapid climate change. Less typically, he's more bullish on nuclear power and hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," than he is on solar energy or wind power for addressing the worldwide carbon... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Energy
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities
  • 22 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

lie in research by Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou, Shelley Xin Li, and George Serafeim. Power from Sunshine: A Business History of Solar EnergyThis paper by Geoffrey Jones and Loubna Bouamane provides a business history of View Details
  • 18 Oct 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services
  • 06 Sep 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

complemented by two major efforts to deal with the dilemma, at least in the U.S.—incentives to foster conservation and the development of alternative energy sources, particularly solar energy. Roberts... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

5.6 billion people—by 2050), but consume 60-80 percent of the world's annual energy usage. Vast amounts of natural resources are also used each year in building new cities and expanding existing ones through real estate development and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Energy
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

unlike traditional successful ventures. However, all of the companies in the sample also had some social or environmental benefit as part of their mission. Three success stories in these categories were Sonic Innovations (health care), Evergreen View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
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