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  • April 2024
  • Teaching Note

Harvard University and Urban Mining Industries: Decarbonizing the Supply Chain

By: Shirley Lu and Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-076. View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Blockchain; Supply Chain; Green Technology; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability
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  • Blog

Have You Checked out Podcasts from HBS?

Explorations of the impact of climate change on business After Hours: HBS faculty views on the crossroads of business and culture Cold Call: Transformation of HBS cases into podcast format The Disruptive... View Details
  • 2022
  • Book

Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy

By: Isabelle Ferreras, Julie Battilana and Dominique Méda
What happens to a society—and a planet—when capitalism outgrows democracy? The tensions between democracy and capitalism are longstanding, and they have been laid bare by the social effects of COVID-19. The narrative of “essential workers” has provided thin cover for... View Details
Keywords: Democratic Capitalism; Essential Workers; Sustainability; Equality and Inequality; Climate Change; Social Issues
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  • January 2024
  • Case

Net Zero Insurance Alliance: An Alliance in Crisis

By: Peter Tufano and Karina Val
The Net Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), a UN-convened alliance of major global insurers, was formed in 2021, but by 2023 had lost over 60% of its members. While NZIA had enjoyed a rapid and productive start by setting standards for the industry and sharing best... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Insurance; Standards; Alliances; Business and Government Relations; Cooperation; Insurance Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Impact: Business in an Age of Sustainability

What is the role of business in addressing climate change? How should asset managers weigh the social impact of their investments? What steps should a company take to ensure transparency in management and compensation? View Details
  • 22 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Earth Day 2022 with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative

from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability By Aditya Desai I began my HBS admissions application essay with the following sentence: “I aspire to help build organizations that are advancing sustainability and addressing the issue of View Details
  • 18 Jul 2024
  • Blog Post

Building the Future: An HBS Alumna’s Journey in Sustainable Infrastructure Investment

HBS classmates who worked in more developed markets, allowing me fill knowledge gaps. It wasn’t until I took classes like Global Climate Change with Professor Gunnar Trumbull and worked on an Independent... View Details
  • Web

Forest L. Reinhardt | About

and economics of climate change and explores the relationships between climate change and business operations. Trailers for the courses are at... View Details
  • November 2023 (Revised August 2024)
  • Background Note

Life Cycle Assessment: An Overview

By: Willy C. Shih, Michael W. Toffel and Kelsey Carter
Life cycle assessment (LCA) is a holistic approach to quantifying the environmental impacts—including resources consumed and wastes produced—associated with the entire life cycle of a product, from the production or extraction of the raw materials used in its creation,... View Details
Keywords: Life-cycle; Environmental Performance; Design; Environmental Management; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Measurement and Metrics; Standards; Accounting; Environmental Accounting
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  • July–August 2023
  • Article

Accounting for Carbon Offsets

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna and Marc Roston
Markets for carbon trading function poorly, and many traded offsets do not actually perform as promised. Without robust protocols for monitoring offsets and in the absence of proper accounting mechanisms, market-based approaches to reducing atmospheric GHG will be... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Regulation
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  • March 1, 2020
  • Other Article

Walking the Talk

By: Peter Tufano
Keywords: Climate Change; Business Education; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • November 2011 (Revised January 2014)
  • Teaching Note

FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?

By: Michael W. Toffel and Francesca Gino
Keywords: Energy; Pollutants
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  • 16 Jan 2025
  • Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Sophie Levin (MS/MBA 2022) - How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future

programs and a supportive community—so they can bring their solutions to market faster. In this way, Newlab plays a key role in advancing the commercialization of technologies that address climate change and... View Details
  • Web

BiGS Research | Institute for Business in Global Society

challenges and support human values in the 21st century. The Ownership Project Details BiGS Research Topics Climate Change Businesses today are increasingly expected to play a leading role in mitigating the... View Details
  • Profile

Joseph Abel

little, it’s very difficult for them to compensate. For them, climate change is a life-and-death issue. The scale of the issue is very different in India. We talk about putting more Priuses on the road [in... View Details
  • April 1994 (Revised March 1995)
  • Case

China (C): Energy and the Environment

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Describes energy and environmental policy in China during the period 1980-1993. China has implemented ambitious plans for electrification and the substitution of fossil fuels (mostly coal) for biomass. The environmental consequences of these changes, at the local and... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Pollutants; Climate Change; Business and Government Relations; Globalization; Energy Industry; China
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  • March 2024
  • Article

Establishing the Foundation for Carbon Trading Markets

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna and Marc Roston
Poor measurement practices and inadequate controls have led to extensive trading of carbon offset instruments that do not materially reduce the supply of atmospheric GHG. We introduce five carbon offset accounting principles, built from fundamental financial-accounting... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Offsetting; Accounting; Carbon Accounting; E-liabilities; Measurement; Trading; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Sustainability
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  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Mead Treadwell

goals for Arctic research is to put in place an environmental observing system that helps us understand changes in the Arctic, a critical component of the global system. We can’t get a fix on climate View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Transportation
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

UN President Speaks at HBS

environment. In his presentation “Globalization and the Sovereignty of Nations: Does Globalization Mean That National Sovereignty Is on the Decline?” Kerim, from Macedonia, cited the fight against climate View Details
Keywords: Government
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Peak Earth?

quarterly letter to investors that has become a must-read not only for the financial community but also for anyone concerned about climate change, resource depletion, and the environment. Grantham, whose firm manages more than $100... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance