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  • 22 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention

world, but “I went into energy at Enron. I thought Enron was innovative. The company used creative finance to bring power projects to life.” After Enron folded, Nisha continued her career in sustainable... View Details
  • 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
  • 25 Jul 2024
  • News

Mentorship Program in Singapore is Still Lighting the Way to Success

several other universities including other Harvard schools—are leading professionals representing a broad range of sectors, from finance to government. A kick-off event each fall focuses on team-building among and across each cohort,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Straddling Two Worlds

one-year stint ended, Tierney joined the corporate finance division of White, Weld & Co. in New York and settled with his wife and three children in Connecticut. At White Weld, he developed a department that focused on transportation... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

manufacturer for eyewear companies. It grew over the years. Ultimately, the company would realize that it had a “diamond” in its own backyard, a core business that had been in the picture all along. Focusing on that core, the Hilsinger team grew the company into a... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Closing the 'Network Gap'

she could help. In an open message on LinkedIn, she offered her own contacts and experiences to any Black college student or recent graduate interested in the finance or tech sectors. “The next morning, my entire calendar was booked up,”... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • October 2019 (Revised November 2019)
  • Case

C16 Biosciences: Lab-Grown Palm Oil

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Olivia Hull
Synthetic biology start-up C16 Biosciences wants to solve a big problem: replace palm oil, a major contributor to deforestation and climate change, with a lab-grown substitute. CEO Shara Ticku has ambitious plans to supply her lab-grown palm oil to food manufacturers,... View Details
Keywords: Science-Based Business; Environmental Sustainability; Social Entrepreneurship; Product Development; Product Positioning; Venture Capital; Strategy; Decision Making; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Accounting for Product Impact in the Pharmaceuticals Industry

By: Amanda Rischbieth, George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the pharmaceuticals industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact estimates of accessible... View Details
Keywords: Product Innovation; Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Social Corporate Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Impact; Pharmaceutical Companies; Pharmaceuticals; IWAI; Product Design; Product Positioning; Society; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Product; Safety; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Alumni Bookshelf

How to Grow When Markets Don't by Adrian Slywotzky (MBA '80) and Richard Wise (Warner Books) Slywotzky brings his expertise in global strategy consulting to his sixth book, which examines the difficulties of sustainable growth and offers... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 07 Jan 2020
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Capitalism Be Fixed by Making Companies More Just?

Keywords: Re: Ethan C. Rouen & Charles C.Y. Wang; Financial Services
  • October 2024
  • Course Overview Note

Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in the Era of Climate Change (ROICC)

By: George Serafeim
This course overview note introduces the course Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in the Era of Climate Change to students. View Details
Keywords: Environment; Innovation; Technology; General Management; Organizational Transformations; Investments; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Finance; Accounting; Leadership; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Management
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  • 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
  • 30 Sep 2015
  • News

Looking to Rwanda’s Future

sustainable economy.” To date, Goldstein has made eight trips to Rwanda with his wife, Kaia Miller Goldstein, an economic development consultant who serves on Kagame’s Presidential Advisory Council with HBS Professor Michael Porter, a... View Details
  • April 2011
  • Teaching Note

Carbon Trading Simulation: Green Cement Inc. (TN)

By: Peter A. Coles
Teaching Note for 911051. View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Trade; Decisions; Risk and Uncertainty; Production; Pollutants; Price; Sales; Profit
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  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

safety nets, it has marginalized pockets of poverty that will seriously threaten the future of the larger society if we don't unlock their potential for sustainable development. What gives you the most satisfaction in your job? In 1994,... View Details
  • 02 Jul 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

people? Is profit as a "direct goal" overrated? Why then is it so frequently found among goals? What do you think? To read more: Michael Beer, High Commitment High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 25 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

relying on $500,000 in financing provided by family members, friends, and "angel" investors, recurred in accounts of what she was trying to accomplish. "This is by far the most challenging thing I've ever done," she... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 2021
  • Article

Decarbonizing Everything

By: Alex Cheema-Fox, Bridget LaPerla, George Serafeim, David Turkington and Hui (Stacie) Wang
We analyze how the use of different climate risk measures leads to different portfolio carbon outcomes and risk-adjusted returns. Our findings are synthesized in a rules-based investment framework, which selects a different type of climate metric across industries and... View Details
Keywords: Climate Risk; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Disclosure Metrics; ESG Ratings; Investing; Investing For Impact; Investment Strategy; Environment; Decarbonization; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Management; Environmental Accounting; Investment; Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return
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  • 14 Jan 2021
  • News

Better Than Cash

(UNCDF). Digital payments increase 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... View Details
  • 16 Oct 2014
  • News

Innovating for International Aid

is really the first time I can take my professional expertise in venture capital and finance and apply it in this fashion toward entrepreneurs and others working on solutions to major problems of a different type. “This isn’t a handout;... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman