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- 09 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge
For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
and prevent further industrial pollution in communities near ports. The law also allocates $15 billion for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund,[31] which works both to stimulate the economy and make jobs and... View Details
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HBS - Key Metrics
Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reporting Program. The GHG inventory consists of direct emissions from onsite fuel combustion (Scope 1) and indirect emissions from purchased electricity (Scope 2) sources. In addition... View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
meat sector. Compared to intensive agricultural practices, Aleph's cultured (or lab-grown) meat solution held the promise of considerably reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as the use of land and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
fine-tuned the agency’s messaging to attract people who were more interested in combating rats than reducing greenhouse gas emissions. “We talked to them about the fact that one-third of the material in the... View Details
- 07 May 2024
- Blog Post
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria
Interested in offsetting your travel carbon footprint? Click here. Are you traveling soon, but feel concerned about the carbon footprint of your flight or drive? Planes and cars release greenhouse gas... View Details
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
graduation, Hilton’s experiences combined to lead him to Energy Impact Partners, where he perfected his skills as a venture investor. “I focused on early-stage startups that aim to displace or sequester a significant portion of global View Details
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Climate Impact - Business & Environment
farmland. We see our land’s ability to serve as a sink for anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions as a key element of the climate solution. As a farmland asset manager, we can direct restorative and... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
the contract. Importance of infrastructure and transportation: Bio-oil is economically attractive to BTG Bioliquids customers (e.g., oil and gas companies) that already have existing oil and gas pipelines... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
Confronting Climate Change Electricity Renewables, nuclear, and carbon capture offer massive market potential The combustion of fossil fuels to generate electricity is the largest source of greenhouse gas... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
sustainable fuel for the long term. When looking at decarbonization strategies, it’s important to remember that greenhouse gas emissions are just one part of the puzzle – and safety, availability,... View Details
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 07 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
production is incredibly resource intensive and that even a small shift in consumption and production can have a massive impact on greenhouse gas emissions. From there, Karen Skelton, Senior Advisor to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021) and James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021) Photo courtesy Syrup Tech Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world, says James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021), who worked in McKinsey’s retail sector before attending HBS. More than 8 percent of... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment
greenhouse gas emissions must be net zero by 2050 to keep global warming below 1.5° C and thereby avoid the most serious impacts of climate change. [1] Major Effects of Climate Change Temperature Rise 18 of... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Michael Skelly (MBA 1991) CEO, Grid United Rise Above Corporate Interests BIO Climate change is upon us. If we are lucky, governments will pull together and create policies to reduce emissions and bend the curve of ever-increasing View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Green Talk at HBS
Before an overflow audience in September, Scott Nyquist (MBA ’84) and Thomas Seitz of McKinsey gave a talk on the “The Future of Energy: How Geopolitics, Environmental, and Supply Risks Are Shaping the Industry.” Drawing on the consulting firm’s research on View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Organic Matter
with nearly 30 times the heat-trapping powers of CO2—represents 10 percent of US greenhouse gas emissions; according to the EPA, dairies and other livestock operations account for a third of that amount.... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne