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- 29 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.
Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Miles Barr Erdin Beshimov Jutta Friedrichs Nathan Trujillo Business Track Runner-Up Ubiquitous Energy distributes electricity to “off-grid” communities worldwide via low-cost paper solar panels that are easy... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
solar energy has become cheap enough to compete with gas and coal. Wind energy is typically more effective than solar, and due to advances in engineering, more wind locations... View Details
- 07 May 2024
- Blog Post
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria
and renovation practices. HBS has installed solar PV* and solar thermal along with green roofs on many of our buildings. (*Note: SRECs, which represent the environmental benefit, are sold to the Harvard... View Details
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Climate Impact - Business & Environment
Chopra GMP 2012 | Founder & CEO, Metafin “Metafin is India’s first vertically integrated clean energy lender enabling access to energy and financial inclusion in rural India. With over 600 View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
associated with ESG issues, and creating sustainable investment solutions. Omar's role prior to HBS was Decarbonization Strategy Execution Lead at Saudi Aramco. Ashwin Bhanot (MBA 2023, Section A), Summer Internship: Summer Associate (Investment Team) at Clean View Details
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
solar-powered irrigation for Indian farmers. While solar irrigation can reduce agricultural production costs by up to 25% and eliminate 132M tons of CO2 emissions annually, upfront costs remain a barrier. Solara aims to make ownership... View Details
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HBS - Key Metrics
electricity from the grid, electricity from our solar panels (solar renewable energy credits [SRECs], which represent the environmental benefit, are sold to the Harvard Utility to meet its state renewable... View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
There can be long dry spells when nothing seems to go right, and bumpy paths whether unexpected obstacles loom. But advanced leaders get through it and thereby product new models for the world. Richard Fahey wanted to bring affordable alternative View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
on those foundations to accelerate the time to deployment.” At Harvard College, Hilton started an energy club and set up a solar technology demonstration for Earth Day. He studied engineering and sought out... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
responsibility efforts, including investing in solar energy and environmentally friendly farming with his sights set on reducing the company's carbon footprint. "The more we leaned into development in... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
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HBS - The year in Review
and working on campus. Conservation measures yielded $29 million in estimated savings in the last decade, and also brought in $2 million in incentives and $130,000 from solar renewable energy credits. More... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
better, the system would work well with alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power, unlike the existing energy system, which has a tough time with renewables.... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
like that. We saw that there was an opportunity to bring cleaner and cheaper energy through solar energy to these companies. “We started CrossBoundary View Details