Environmental Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction

entrepreneurship has risen to confront environmental challenges that policy alone been unable to address. Bypassing the political fluctuations that lead to inconsistent and unreliable international promises, she discusses ways that... View Details

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

of Weak Interests By Gunnar Trumbull Empirical studies have consistently shown a capacity to coordinate when the collective interest is both material and evident. One of the early studies to assess the impact of group size on coordination... View Details

Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Social Enterprise Fall in Review Margot Dushin 05 Dec 2019 For the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, fall went by in a flash. The fall semester is a time fo... Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental View Details

10 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

array of the impacts that they generate (or can influence), from environmental conditions to employee health and safety to social conditions like the quality of public education. How can boards best organize... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Mar 2020
News

Leading Change

“Business and Climate Policy: Your Vital Role,” on February 12, 2020. Moderated by Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at HBS and Faculty Chair of BEI, the event drew 100 alumni and guests to the... View Details

13 Jul 2020
News

Locally Grown

local companies was dictated by Fenwick-Smith’s preferred working style and his convictions: He wanted lots of face time with young leaders and the burgeoning companies Aravaipa would fund, while also being mindful of the environmental... View Details

Keywords: April White

Fast Answer

Confronting Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

emissions, and greentech. More resources from HBS: HBS Working Knowledge - keep updated about Harvard Business School faculty on issues including science-based businesses, environmental sustainability, and climate change. HBS... View Details

09 Nov 2016
News

The Seeds of Learning

Adam Zmick (MBA 2011) is cofounder of Gardeneers, an environmental education organization based in Chicago, Illinois. In this interview, he explains the connections between learning about food and children’s preparation for a healthy... View Details

14 Jun 2018
News

Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa

financial return, but also a social and an environmental or conservation return. “Throughout my career, I saw what finance could do and the positive impact that it could have. And Africa's very exposed. At... View Details

2022
Case

Can Salesforce Compete in the Carbon Accounting Market?

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

This case describes Salesforce's development of Sustainability Cloud, a suite of software tools built to help companies measure, track, and report carbon emissions and other sustainability metrics. The goal of this case is to provide students with a background and... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Accountability; Applications and Software

Citation

Purchase

22 Jul 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance

Keywords: by Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim

29 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship

simple products like the Hippo Roller (a device used to carry drinking water) and insecticidal nets, realizing their potential to significantly improve communities. This revelation shaped my guiding principle: to use design and engineering to solve complex social and... View Details

Profile

Lindsay Steinmetz

Conversations with them reinforced my desire to be in social enterprise, where the complexities of social impact are tackled and debated. It was the energy they brought to public health, international development, education and corporate... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

17 May 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting

Keywords: by Ioannis Ioannou & George Serafeim

08 Nov 2016
First Look

November 8, 2016

hectares of land in Chile and Argentina that he converted to protected areas and national parks. The Chouinard strategy represented best practice green entrepreneurship, which if widely adopted might markedly reduce the environmental... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2012
News

Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources

Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Finance (taught in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Design), the BEI has generated 25 to 30 new environmentally related case studies each year. The BEI also hosts the annual alumni HBS... View Details

Keywords: Dalai Lama

19 Sep 2016
News

Sustainable Farming in the Arid World

three things for us. One is to desalinate water, the other is to produce electricity, and [the third is] to produce heating and cooling. That allows us to be incredibly neutral from an environmental impact... View Details

20 Nov 2015
News

Room to Grow

engaged campus community. Beyond the campus, the program’s impact is evident in a revitalized farming community in the surrounding areas and at other nearby colleges and school systems that are using the UMass model to start similar... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

2016
Working Paper

Shareholder Activism on Sustainability Issues

By: Jody Grewal, George Serafeim and Aaron Yoon

Shareholder activism on sustainability issues has become increasingly prevalent over the years, with the number of proposals filed doubling from 1999 to 2013. We use recent innovations in accounting standard setting to classify 2,665 shareholder proposals that address... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Activism; Activist Investors; Activist Shareholder; Corporate Social Responsibility; Environment; Corporate Performance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Investment Activism