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  • 15 Apr 2020
  • Video

Climate Change Exhibit Overview: From Business as Usual to Business as Vital

  • 31 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

Consider areas where you can have the biggest impact and use that as a jumping off point. Guests were adamant: it’s possible to have a career of passion and fulfillment. Incorporate climate and... View Details
  • 05 Nov 2019
  • Blog Post

Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact

the spectrum, which was part of what drove me to enroll in the MBA program.  What influenced your decision to go into clean tech? I’m definitely passionate about the environment and interested in finding ways to contribute to solutions to our environmental challenges,... View Details
  • March 2025
  • Teaching Note

Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena: Ticket to a Greener Future

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 325-110. CEO Tim Leiweke reviewed the process by which his newly formed Oak View Group had managed a major rebuild of a landmark arena in Seattle which attracted a National Hockey League franchise and major entertainers concerned about... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Leadership; Bids and Bidding; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Green Buildings; Construction; Partners and Partnerships; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Seattle
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  • 24 May 2021
  • Blog Post

Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

from a business standpoint and from a climate impact standpoint, that emerged. That element of surprise areas of leverage are incredibly potent. None of the areas of highest View Details
  • 10 May 2023
  • Video

Driving Climate Performance Through Accountability and Governance

  • 05 Jan 2022
  • News

Can Capitalism Address Climate Change?

  • 02 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #11: Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy

Climate Stories Episode #11 – Mary Jo Veverka (HBS 1978): Fostering Actionable Climate Literacy “Students are our futures. Look at the impact of Hurricane Ian. We need to focus... View Details
  • February 9, 2024
  • Article

Addressing Climate Change with Behavioral Science: A Global Intervention Tournament in 63 Countries

By: Madalina Vlasceanu, Kimberly C. Doell, Joseph B. Bak-Coleman, Boryana Todorova, Michael M. Berkebile-Weinberg, Amit Goldenberg, Eric Shuman and et al.
Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, we tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Policy; Knowledge Sharing; Values and Beliefs
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  • 28 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition

On March 24, five teams of Harvard students came together to pitch innovative impact investment opportunities in early-stage social enterprises. The students were participants in a hands-on impact investing... View Details
  • 18 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'

Consumers who are eager to mitigate climate change can take many actions, such as reducing the number of airline flights they take or installing solar panels on their homes. But the planet is in a race against time, and individual action alone won’t help most countries... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis; Financial Services; Mining
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

When Insurers Exit: Climate Losses, Fragile Insurers, and Mortgage Markets

By: Ishita Sen, Pari Sastry and Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva
This paper studies how homeowners insurance markets respond to growing climate losses and how this impacts mortgage market dynamics. Using Florida as a case study, we show that traditional insurers are exiting high risk areas, and new lower quality insurers are... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Natural Disasters; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Insurance Industry; Florida
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  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities
  • 23 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 06 Jan 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

Summing Up Do we even need a stringent climate change agreement? Judging from this month's comments, a question can be raised about the necessity of a climate change agreement, stringent or not, as a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • 05 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

potential anchor’s impact will be magnified by early allocation to the fund. About the Author Sean Silverthorne is editor-in-chief of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: Kaipungyai] Related Reading Investors Have More Than... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities
  • Fast Answer

Confronting Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

Investing Network - Read the GIIN's latest Op-eds and publications, along with Investor Spotlights, Investment Profiles, and third-party research from other leading impact investing organizations.  View Details
  • Web

Confronting Climate Change - Business & Environment

by factors associated with climate change and the wide-ranging effects of environmental risks are impacting the financial sector in unprecedented ways. Industrial Production & Materials Reducing Waste... View Details
  • 08 Aug 2024
  • Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: London

and Paul then discussed the interplay between government and businesses towards a net positive future and how a number of elections in 2024 could impact climate goals. They discussed how businesses could... View Details