Environmental Impact - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

best be applied. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54809 August 2018 Review of Industrial Organization The Impact of the Entry of Biosimilars: Evidence from Europe By: Scott Morton, Fiona M., Ariel Dora... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

Environmental Policy Making and Implementation Author:Alnoor S. Ebrahim Abstract This paper explores how "learning" occurs in the context of environmental policy formulation and implementation.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 May 2024
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship

products and services, large companies have bought into the success of the trend by making bold “100% sustainable” statements about their business models. However, concerns over greenwashing – a term referring to misleading claims about corporate View Details

04 Nov 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

off his own consulting firm, Competitiveness.com, in 1993 to work exclusively on cluster competitiveness reinforcement projects. Consultant and Networker One of his firm’s first challenges was helping the 500-year-old leather industry in Catalonia to comply with the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

three-day school trip weaving woolen swatches on a collection of old-fashioned floor looms. Later that day, he notes, the students will learn about—and even pet—indigenous Appalachian wildlife (including a pink-eyed albino corn snake) before wading into nearby Greasy... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

January 2024
Case

ECOALF: Fashion for the Future

By: Elizabeth A. Keenan, Diego Aparicio, Carlota Moniz and María José Satrústegui

ECOALF, a Spanish fashion brand and sustainability pioneer, aimed to tackle the industry's challenges of excessive consumption and production. The brand's mission was to create timeless apparel exclusively from recycled and eco-responsible materials, matching the... View Details

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01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll

earned prestigious awards. This is the kind of benchmark I want Anglo to be known for. In Alaska, we’ve spent over $100 million on environmental and socioeconomic impact studies pursuant to developing a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining

28 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Novo Nordisk

others. This has resulted in bottom-line savings of 24 million and 14 million in socio-economic savings, and with annual environmental benefits including 586,000 tons of CO2 emissions reduction, 4 million cubic meters of water savings,... View Details

10 Apr 2012
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Ariely Publication:Health Affairs 31 (February 2012) Abstract Policies that mandate calorie labeling in fast-food and chain restaurants have had little or no observable impact on calorie consumption to date. In three field experiments, we... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Sep 2021
News

Green House

available in the building industry,” she recalls. She could, for instance, track the positive environmental impact of each dollar the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development spent on... View Details

20 Sep 2011
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W. Toffel, and Stephanie van SiceHarvard Business School Case 611-049 Seeking to go beyond global best practices in reducing environmental impacts, FIJI Water, a premium artesian bottled water company in the United States, launched a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

to arms. Innovation Through Fusion: Combining Innovative Ideas to Create High Impact Solutions by CJ Meadows (DBA 1996) De Gruyter Just as nuclear fusion produces massive energy by combining two nuclei, a fusion in business, technology,... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Kash Rangan

what benefits did they get? And then the even bigger question beyond cost efficiency and effectiveness is, what impact did the organization have? Granted it is very complex to get all the way to that level, but even signposts along the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.

On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog

sequence of field cases, ranging from internet startups to revitalized state-owned enterprises (SOEs), across a wide range of geographical and product markets. This stands in addition to a series of technical notes address the cultural, economic, political, labor,... View Details

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

meat consumption. That’s a big carbon pawprint! We’re helping them reduce their environmental impact through sustainably sourced ingredients that are flavorful and nutritious. PicoGreensJesse Lou, MBA... View Details

31 Oct 2023
Blog Post

Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978

crisis. She has explored all 63 national parks in depth and was a presidential appointee to the National Park Foundation board. Today, she supports immersive Field Science curriculum, embedding environmental and climate literacy in a... View Details

03 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy

28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-096.pdf Shamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Being Rated (Revised May 2008) Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Abstract We examine how firms respond to third-party ratings of their corporate View Details