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  • 22 Apr 2020
  • Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

[climate change] is a massive megatrend,” said Audrey Choi (MBA 2004), Morgan Stanley’s chief sustainability officer and chief marketing officer, during a panel discussion. “It’s a fundamental material risk to earnings and portfolios.”... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • October 2024 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

SWEN Blue Ocean: Impact Investing Goes to Sea

By: Vikram S Gandhi and David Allen
In August 2023, SWEN Blue Ocean, a €170 million impact fund that invested in startups contributing to ocean sustainability, faced a critical investment decision. Part of SWEN Capital Partners, an €8 billion, Paris-based private equity fund, Blue Ocean was co-founded in... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Science-Based Business; Technological Innovation; Financial Services Industry; France; Paris; Italy
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  • 19 Jul 2011
  • News

Brightening the Future

rural, off-grid Philippine villages. The well-publicized “Ride for Light” was intended to call the country’s attention to the need for safe, sustainable power alternatives to the widespread reliance on kerosene, wood, and batteries, which... View Details
Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Faculty Books

think about these subjects. High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage by Michael Beer (Jossey-Bass) Drawing on many management studies and his work with senior managers, Professor... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 17 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

the large team of researchers looking at COVID-19’s impact on issues of work and organizational psychology, prompting changes for practitioners and human resources professionals. Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • July 2012
  • Case

Generation Investment Management

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Matthew Preble
Examines the investment process of Generation Investment Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Energy Generation; Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Welfare; Financial Services Industry; India; United Kingdom
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  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Labs Enable Large-scale Research

Business Administration Advisor: James Cash, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at HBS Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab How can we help companies better use data, metrics, and AI/ML tools to decarbonize... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

One-on-One with Carter Roberts

countries and annual revenues in excess of $126 million. The privately financed organization has nearly 5 million members. Under his leadership, the WWF has launched an ambitious new strategy to focus its efforts on protecting nineteen of... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
  • 18 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

learn about the the role that finance can play in accelerating our response to climate change. Those conversations in the classroom setting and outside were critical in shaping my own view of what the role of businesses is in solving this... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

2016 Echoing Green Fellow Christine Su is co-founder and CEO of PastureMap. The for-profit software company helps sustainable ranchers record their grazing practices on mobile devices.  (Photo courtesy of Echoing Green.) A division of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

Responsibility and Access to Finance (1,179) http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6766.html http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-130.pdf Published: July 22, 2011 Paper Released: June 2011 Corporate social responsibility may benefit society, but does... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 30 Apr 2025
  • News

A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado

Cole. Approximately 60 people attended the in-person event, held at JLL in Washington, to get insights from alumni working in the public sector and nonprofit space. Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance Unit and has taught in a variety... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • Web

Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

availability and access to talent, financing sources, legal and regulatory environments, local culture, and exit markets. Career Focus: Global Entrepreneurship (GV) is a course for a variety of students. First, individuals potentially... View Details
  • 11 May 2020
  • News

Better Than Cash

savings, security, and transparency for both the payer and the recipient, and they can serve as the spark for larger societal change, Goodwin-Groen explains. “Digital financial inclusion can build a foundation for achieving the United Nations’ View Details
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

and growing and sustaining the enterprise. "We can't teach people how to come up with ideas, but we can teach them how to analyze ideas already available to them," he explains. "We also teach that entrepreneurs must react quickly not only... View Details
  • November 7, 2023
  • Article

How Courage Can Help Leaders Stay the Course

By: Ranjay Gulati
Keywords: Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Profit; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 22 Sep 2020
  • News

A Dialogue on Capitalism, Climate, and Social Change

  • 28 Jul 2015
  • Blog Post

Nairobi Love: Heading Home

experience at HBS thus far. While I was intimidated by being in class with hardcore finance folks for finance and accounting classes, I am amazed at how much I have learned in a year. While I had to do a... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Supercharged

contends, these low-end manufacturers could grow under the radar of more established automakers until they become “too big to fight—or too big to beat.” But the Chinese market—like its European and American counterparts—is being sustained... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn
  • Web

Multimedia Development | Information Technology

much more vibrant and emotional way. Robin Greenwood George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking, Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research 400+ media-rich cases since 1995 200+ faculty partners 750k+ units sold at HBP... View Details