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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and advance faculty research that... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
And on the positive side, firms that do well on the ESG spectrum—environmental, social, and governance spectrum—and run their businesses with purpose, show a massive benefit in attracting and retaining talent—which is by the way, a huge... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- News
Accounting for Real Change
independent auditors. The COVID pandemic has revealed a similar problem, Cohen writes. “This time, it is the measurement of companies’ social and environmental impacts that must be made transparent.” One-third of the world’s professionally managed assets flow to View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the Business and Environment Initiative Five years ago, as George Serafeim recalls, if he had walked into the classroom on the first day and mentioned View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
focused on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) solutions. Yet they achieved both distinctions in May 2021 with the launch of MPower Partners, focusing on what they considered an untapped pool of talent: young entrepreneurs making a difference in the View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
financial returns and impact in the business model of investee companies. Quite a few of the large, global PE firms have launched impact funds over the last year. On the public side, I think ESG will become core to any financial analysis,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 26 Apr 2022
- News
Leading on Climate Change
and countries on their sustainability efforts—and agreed that ESG transformation is underpinned by leadership transformation, which requires vision, trust, credibility, and transparency. View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
instance, that insurance should have a big seat at this table. And a lot of the early days of climate and ESG and all the rest, focused more on banking and the asset management side of the house. I think folks are coming around to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
companies taking on these challenges. It’s been a steep ascent for ESG in recent years, from a fringy outlier straight to the mainstage, as investments increased tenfold from 2018 to 2020. And there’s no sign of that pace slowing. Some... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
have also presented consecutively at the same big investment conference and found the same thing. The first year, I think 40 people showed up for my session on ESG issues in investing, the next year 230. This year there were 600 for the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
these events will lead to meaningful discussions that eventually evolve into real-world impact.” The event also gave Chan the opportunity to connect with panelist Michael Ellis, a managing director at Inherent Group, an ESG... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Advance Racial Equity in the Office
those challenges. Quantitatively and qualitatively, define the standard of what “good” looks like, and then commit to bringing the same standard of rigor with which organizations approach any other aspect of the business, such as ESG or... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
this, Thakor explains, is that “we’re seeing the seeds of something that will ideally blossom over the coming decade. At the end of the day, it is becoming increasingly clear that companies that truly embody both DEI and ESG values are on... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
sectors. And then I think—perhaps a story that is still emerging—are asset allocators, sovereign funds, pension funds that are steadily embracing what are called, you know, ESG principles (environmental, social, governance criteria) and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Pilgrimage to the Museum: Man’s Search for God Through Art and Time By Stephen Auth (MBA 1985) Sophia Institute Press In Pilgrimage to the Museum, author-curator Stephen Auth takes you on a colorful journey through the history of... View Details