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- 26 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Business and the Environment
States, climate change is becoming a priority. Sustainability will drive business in the next 25 years. The transition to a low-carbon economy will bring about significant investment opportunities. It is a... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
Coca-Cola and Walmart, and governments like South Africa and Bhutan and even China, investing in sustainability," he says. The 51-year-old Atlanta native is married to Jackie Prince Roberts, director of View Details
- 29 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact
energy investment group. Those two seemingly separate worlds coalesced into one; I was able to use the tool kit I’d built over the years from my private sector experience in consulting and traditional banking in a space where I felt I was... View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
Hourdequin (MBA 2005), managing directors at the Lyme Timber Company in Hanover, New Hampshire, work hard to make the double bottom line a reality. Founded in 1976, Lyme Timber Company is a timberland investment management organization... View Details
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
March 4, Harvard Business School gathered senior executives, risk experts, and leading investment professionals from some of the world’s largest asset managers to share how they’re approaching these complex questions. The conference,... 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 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
easy to find circular economy models that are interesting, but few have achieved the scale and financial sustainability Apple has,” says George Serafeim, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration, who heard Claure tell... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... 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
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
Merkl: Managing water resources for a sustainable future. Photo Courtesy of Andreas Merkl They say all rivers lead to the sea. If that is true, then it's only fitting that Andreas Merkl (MBA 1989) should find himself today at the helm of... View Details
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
innovative design in the built environment. To create an environmentally sustainable built environment, design that focuses on maximizing natural resource efficiency, planning that fosters public health, business models that attract the... View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
as important as rewarding investors is using the power of business to build a better society. Roundtable members committed to building up local communities, investing more in employees, fostering diversity and inclusion, embracing View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
drive organizational change. Change is always hard, but if you can persuade your employees that it will help change the world, they will often do everything they can to make it work. Many firms are already investing in the kinds of... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
something? Based on my experience as a real estate and construction CEO and my academic research on urbanization, new cities, and the finance of sustainable infrastructure, I propose these simple ABCs (actually A-F) for business leaders... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... 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