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Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 123-060. View Details

September 9, 2024
Article

Ten Questions for a Winning Climate-transition Business Strategy

The move to a low-carbon economy will create opportunities for innovation and growth. To make the most of them, leaders must understand the challenges they could face along the way. View Details

Keywords: Technology; Organizational Transformations; Business Model Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Climate Change; Transformation; Leadership; Business Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Change Management; Entrepreneurship

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April 2023 (Revised October 2023)
Supplement

Driving Decarbonization at BMW – Instructor Spreadsheet Supplement

By: Shirley Lu, George Serafeim and Michael W. Toffel

April 2025
Teaching Note

Blue Frontier: Disrupting Air Conditioning

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 325-088. View Details

July 2024
Teaching Plan

Elon Musk at Tesla

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 123-044. View Details

2016
Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Torsten Thiele and the Global Ocean Trust

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Sibel Yalman and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

Teaching Note for Case 316-039. View Details

June 2025
Supplement

Three years in his tenure as CEO, Cobuz must decide whether to launch a more than €500 million carbon-capture-and-storage facility. The project—Europe’s largest planned CCS installation—would cut almost 20 % of group emissions and unlock a €234 million EU Innovation... View Details

Keywords: CEO; Family

September 2005 (Revised June 2012)
Case

New Songdo City

By: Arthur I Segel, Brandon Blaser, Gerardo Garza, Albert Kim, John Richard and Andrew Murphy

The government of South Korea has chosen John Hynes and Gale International to construct New Songdo City. This is an entirely new city, about the size of Boston, between the new Incheon airport and the capital of Seoul. The proposed city is the government's attempt to... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Urban Development; Construction; Design; Climate Change; South Korea

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Resources - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Resources Webinar: Confronting Climate Change: From Business as Usual to Business as Vital This webinar, developed by the HBS Business and... View Details

13 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment

Education programs around the world. We have a group of core faculty who are particularly active in writing case materials on environmental topics including climate change, sustainable cities, clean energy, and integrated reporting. A... View Details

October 2024
Teaching Note

Vineyard Wind Starts Spinning (B): Breakdown and (C): Recovery and Progress

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 325-054 and 325-055. View Details

May 2024
Supplement

Harvard University and Urban Mining Industries: Decarbonizing the Supply Chain - Instructor Version

By: Shirley Lu and Robert Kaplan

February 2024
Supplement

X: The Foghorn Decision

By: Kyle Myers

May 2025
Teaching Note

Calyx Global: Rating Carbon Credits

By: Michael W. Toffel and Adam Chen

Teaching note to support the Calyx Global: Ratinng Carbon Credits case (HBS No. 625-102) View Details

January 2, 2024
Article

Academic ‘Elders’ Wanted: Inquire Within

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

Keywords: Business Education

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2013
Chapter

Assessing Potential Carbon Revenues from Reduced Forest Cover Loss in Liberia

By: Jessica Donovan, Keith Lawrence, Christopher Neyor, Eduard Niesten and Eric Werker

We conducted an analysis that explores the merits of a low-carbon development strategy for Liberia. This chapter describes both our cost-benefit analysis initiative and a plausible policy process for Liberia. We proposed a simple approach that models the costs and... View Details

Keywords: Carbon Revenue; Liberia; Deforestation; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Liberia

February 2009
Article

GHG Trading Framework for the U.S. Biofuels Sector

By: Subbu Kumarappan and Satish V. Joshi

Substitution of petroleum fuels with biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel has been shown to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These GHG reductions can be traded in the emerging carbon markets, and methodologies for quantifying and trading are still being... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; United States

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November 2011
Teaching Note

Duke Energy and the Nuclear Renaissance (TN)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Keywords: Energy Generation

July 2024
Teaching Plan

KOKO Networks: Bridging Energy Transition and Affordability with Carbon Financing

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 124-022. View Details