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  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

The City Solution

sidebar, next page) also underscores the opportunities for business and investors in a newly climate-conscious world. Efficiency has become a bottom-line imperative and sustainability an organizing principle that companies can use to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 17 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?

On May 10, 2023, Harvard Business School assembled a group of experts to discuss the path “Toward a Decarbonized Future: Why Pays? Who Profits?” In a discussion led by HBS Professor Peter Tufano, the experts described a series of vexing realities impacting the View Details
  • 24 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

corporations and governments alike need to focus on. Consequently, the career opportunities for MBAs are now unlimited- you can shape sustainability strategy at traditional companies and banks, drive products and operations at startups... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Decarbonization Factors

Keywords: by Alex Cheema-Fox, Bridget LaPerla, George Serafeim, David Turkington, and Hui (Stacie) Wang
  • Article

Households' Willingness to Pay for 'Green' Goods: Evidence from Patagonia's Introduction of Organic Cotton Sportswear

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Michael Crooke, Forest L. Reinhardt and Vishal Vasishth
To shed light on individuals' willingness to pay for "green" goods (i.e., goods that are supposed to have lower adverse environmental impacts either in production or in use), we study data from the introduction by Patagonia, Inc., of organic cotton sportswear in the... View Details
Keywords: Spending; Consumer Behavior; Environmental Sustainability; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 13 Mar 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey

Keywords: by Amir Amel-Zadeh and George Serafeim
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Uniting business, industry, and governments to save the planet

Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) took over as president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the largest network of international conservation organizations on the planet, in 2005. Since then, he has been working to bring leaders in business, industry, and government to the... View Details
  • 17 Oct 2019
  • News

Venturing Away from Venture Capital

profitable since 2016 and grew nearly 70 percent in 2018, with revenues of $100 million. As a result, she sees no reason to take on more funding. “We have a really sustainable business at this point,” Lin says. “We’re growing at a nice... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
  • 17 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

two key questions that leaders must address to keep the mission on course while still making enough money to sustain that mission: One, whom should you hire to strike a healthy balance between idealism and the bottom line? And two, what's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Investing in new technologies to accelerate change

Girish Nadkami (MBA 1988), a venture capitalist in Switzerland, talks about the impact of investing in new technologies for communications, robotics, and environmental start-ups. (Published April 2014) View Details
  • February 1999 (Revised February 2001)
  • Case

CAMPFIRE Program, The: Wildlife Management in Zimbabwe

By: Robert E. Kennedy and Karen Beth Kaufman
Examines an innovative, village-based management program in Zimbabwe. While the program has been quite successful, executive director Steven Kasere is concerned about the future. The program has become quite controversial in the environmental community, and the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Programs; Financing and Loans; Environmental Sustainability; Conflict and Resolution; United States; Zimbabwe
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Decarbonization Factors

By: Alex Cheema-Fox, Bridget LaPerla, George Serafeim, David Turkington and Hui (Stacie) Wang
In the face of accelerating climate change, investors are making capital allocations seeking to decarbonize portfolios by reducing the carbon emissions of their holdings. To understand the performance of portfolio decarbonization strategies and investor behavior... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Investment Management; Factor Investing; Investor Behavior; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Investment; Management
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  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline

airlines filed for bankruptcy. "You've got to think where the competitive dynamics of a business or industry are going to lead over time," Buffett said. "What causes unusual profitability," he emphasized, "is not demand or a great idea, it's View Details
  • Web

Finalists | New Venture Competition

gaps in medical equipment access by enabling sharing and redistribution through an asset-light model sustainable biopolymer production. Lexi Linh Pham (MDE 2025) Siddharth UR (MDE 2025) Jen Li (MBA 2025) Luke Fiorante (MDE 2026) Breaking... View Details
  • 25 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

found the "Levers of Change: Orchestrating Food Systems Transformations" and "Threads of Change: Sustainable Solutions in Apparel and Textiles" panels especially thought-provoking. A key insight that stuck with me is how disconnected we... View Details
  • 27 Feb 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: HBS Visits Jindal Steel Works (JSW) Steel Dolvi Plant

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course... View Details
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

performance based on historical data that should help users to avoid a common mistake of overestimating the sustainability of strong (or poor) current performance. Finally, the model shows the direct linkage between variables that are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2019
  • Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

School’s Digital Initiative under the title Sustainability is an Innovation Problem. About the Author Rebecca M. Henderson is the John and Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard University, where she has a joint appointment at the... View Details
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

In the business of empowering women entrepreneurs

As a cofounder and managing director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF), Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) backs female-led, early-stage ventures in digital media and sustainable products and services. Dodi says these emerging consumer... View Details
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Real estate: emerging markets

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Assessment of global financial markets, including emerging market financing from... View Details