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Campus Sustainability

What is HBS Doing? Harvard Business School (HBS) is committed to Harvard's Sustainability and Climate Action Plan, which includes achieving a fossil fuel-free future. HBS Sustainability strives to build a... View Details
  • 11 Feb 2022
  • Video

Introduction to Sustainable Investing

    Profits and Sustainability

    The book explores the phenomenon of green entrepreneurship from the nineteenth century to present day. The book spans between various industries such as organic food, natural beauty, clean energy, sustainable finance and eco-tourism. It explores the motivations of... View Details

    • May 2011 (Revised March 2012)
    • Case

    InterfaceRAISE: Sustainability Consulting

    By: Michael W. Toffel, Robert G. Eccles and Casey Taylor
    InterfaceRAISE is a sustainability management consulting firm created to leverage the capabilities of its parent company Interface Inc., a carpet manufacturer recognized as a global leader in corporate environmental sustainability. This case illustrates the challenges... View Details
    Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Entrepreneurship; Performance; Environmental Accounting; Profit; Marketing Strategy; Human Resources; Business Model; Leveraged Buyouts; Salesforce Management; Consulting Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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    • December 2011 (Revised November 2012)
    • Case

    Sustainable Tea at Unilever

    By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Frederik Nellemann
    Unilever's Lipton Tea had been successful with the first phase of its certification partnership with Rainforest Alliance. Now the company faced challenges in how to push forward with the transformation of more difficult parts of the supply chain and how to market... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Marketing; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    • 21 Aug 2013
    • Talk

    Leadership for a New Era: Getting Serious about Sustainability

    By: Lynn S. Paine
    Keywords: Sustainability; Ethical Behavior; Leadership; Ethics; Environmental Sustainability
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    • 3 PM – 4 PM EDT, 27 Mar 2023
    • Virtual Programming

    Chief Sustainability Officer Panel

    As organizations continue to formalize their commitment to the environment through ESG efforts, the opportunities for MBAs to meaningfully contribute to this field continue to grow and evolve. Leadership roles often filled by MBAs include Chief Sustainability Officer... View Details

      Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged

      Villa Victoria examines how of a group of low-income Puerto Rican migrants with little formal education living in a Boston enclave resisted the efforts of the city to relocate them in the name of "urban renewal." After a successful grassroots movement, the... View Details

      • 16 Apr 2015
      • News

      Sustainable Strides at NIKE, Inc.

      • 21 Nov 2022
      • Blog Post

      HBS Student Club Spotlight: Sustainability Club

      In this blog, hear from 2022-23 Sustainability Club co-presidents: Angela Son, Erin O’ Malley & Meghavi Talati (all MBA 2023). What are the mission and activities of your club? The Sustainability Club is... View Details
      • Forthcoming
      • Article

      Disclosure Standards and Communication Norms: Evidence of Voluntary Sustainability Standards as a Coordinating Device for Capital Markets

      By: Khrystyna Bochkay, Jeffrey Hales and George Serafeim
      In this paper, we examine how the development of voluntary sustainability standards has affected the nature of information covered in conference calls. Using industry-specific dictionaries of sustainability terms contained in the disclosure standards developed by the... View Details
      Keywords: Voluntary Disclosure; Accounting Standards; Sustainability Reporting; Sustainability Standards; ESG; ESG Disclosure; Accounting; Corporate Disclosure; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards; United States
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      • March 2014
      • Technical Note

      Sustainability of Competitive Advantage

      By: Eric Van den Steen
      This note introduces a framework for analyzing the sustainability of competitive advantage. (While it applies more broadly, it was developed as a component of the PVA framework.) View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Monopoly
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      • 14 Dec 2011
      • News

      A Manifesto for Sustainable Capitalism

        Integrated Reporting: Supporting Sustainable Strategies for a Sustainable Society

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          HBX: Sustainable Business Strategy

          Climate change. Income inequality. Institutional collapse. Sustainable Business Strategy is a flexible, 3 week, highly-interactive online course designed to provide participants with the tools they need to build thriving businesses while... View Details

          • July 2003 (Revised December 2004)
          • Case

          Sustainable Conservation--Where Next?

          Sustainable Conservation (SusCon) is an environmental nonprofit in San Francisco that works collaboratively with the private and public sectors to achieve positive environmental change. The organization forms partnerships with industry and government agencies to devise... View Details
          Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Cost vs Benefits; Expansion; Environmental Sustainability; San Francisco
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          • March 2025 (Revised March 2025)
          • Case

          Good for the Seller, Good for the Buyer and Good for Society: Sampo-yoshi, Sustainability and Trust at ITOCHU

          By: Sandra J. Sucher and Bethelehem Y Araya
          In 2024, ITOCHU CEO Masahiro Okafuji was at a crossroads. As the thirteenth CEO since ITOCHU’s founding in 1858, he had fueled the company’s growth since 2011 by bringing ITOCHU’s founding philosophy of Sampo-yoshi (good for the seller, good for the buyer and... View Details
          Keywords: Sustainability; Trust; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Japan
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          • September 2015
          • Teaching Note

          Sustainability at IKEA Group

          By: Michael W. Toffel
          Can IKEA Group double its global sales within a decade by expending in emerging markets while implementing on its ambitious sustainability strategy that included focusing on raw material sourcing and suppliers’ production processes? The case focuses on IKEA Group’s... View Details
          Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Emerging Markets; Environmental Sustainability; Globalized Markets and Industries; Consumer Products Industry
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          • 24 Aug 2013
          • Panel Discussion

          Leadership for a New Era: Getting Serious about Sustainability

          By: Lynn S. Paine
          Keywords: Sustainability; Ethical Decision Making; Leadership; Decision Making; Ethics; Environmental Sustainability
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          • 20 Mar 2013
          • Research & Ideas

          How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

          Michael Beer and his coauthors at the Center for Higher Ambition Leadership, the executives underscored the importance of higher-ambition goals, including engaging with and developing employee and customer commitment, contributing to the community in which they... View Details
          Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman