Climate - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

cost and in less time. I will also discuss the role of ventures in addressing climate change. Some of the popular solutions to these challenges (e.g., Medicare for All, free community college, and elimination of fossil fuels) seem... View Details

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

strategies Gain insights into the climate risk inherent in investment opportunities Discover how to integrate risks into financial models Think critically about how and where to add value while avoiding “impact washing” Who Will Benefit... View Details

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

incentives that encourage them to give back, as skepticism about corporate America remains high and the world faces widespread global challenges brought on by COVID-19 and climate change. “In economics we talk more about how to deter the... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

lesbian, and I wasn’t there to out them. That’s what the climate was like at the time.” “I assured them I was a lesbian, and I wasn’t there to out them. That’s what the climate was like at the time.” By... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

March 2020 (Revised May 2020)
Case

Generation Investment Management

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Sarah Mehta

By January 2020, sustainable investment firm Generation Investment Management (Generation), founded in London in 2004, had grown from a shared vision among seven founders to a 90-person firm managing $27 billion in public and private equity. Throughout its history,... View Details

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Operations Management) Suraj Srinivasan Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems (also listed under General Management and Strategy) Ethan Rouen Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of View Details

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Career Support - Business & Environment

industry-focused programs with alumni and student leaders in energy, food and agriculture, and sustainability. Check the MBA Event Calendar for details. (Fall) Climate Symposium Each fall, student clubs host the View Details

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Contemporary African Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

of ancestry and identity; archives and history; memory and trauma; legacies of colonialism and apartheid; globalization and trade; and climate and natural resources. The works in this exhibition offer another view of the continent, one... View Details

28 Jun 2022
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The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Energy, IT, real estate, and sustainability

By: Rebecca M. Henderson

Professor Henderson’s current research focuses on the energy, information technology, and real estate sectors and the challenges firms encounter as they attempt to act in more sustainable ways. This work is an outgrowth of her decade-long examination of the... View Details

05 Feb 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

resurrect the truth. In the current climate encouraging increased disclosure, would for-profit organizations be better off emulating their governmental organization counterparts, where compensation is public information, and there are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

Portrait Project

Ratnika Prasad

life to balancing public mandates with the realities of environmental conservation. For me, climate change was a reality we lived with, experienced in wildly fluctuating rains that flooded my house, turbulent storms that eroded roads, and... View Details

23 Jun 2023
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Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

society. Last November, HBS hosted its first in-person alumni conference since March 2020. The Entrepreneurship Summit brought 355 alumni founders, builders, and investors back to campus. A second alumni conference, Accelerating Climate... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Z. Szajnfarber, J. Crusan, M. Menietti, and K.R. Lakhani. Michael W. Toffel : Winner of a 2023 Silver Anthem Award in the Sustainability, Environment and Climate category for the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s “ View Details

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Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019) - MBA

reporting requirements from Asian regulatory bodies in Hong Kong and Japan. How do you plan on continuing to leverage the HBS network going forward to continue to deepen your knowledge of climate & impact and where do you see some of the... View Details

26 Mar 2021
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How to Build a Resume That Stands Above the Competition

navigate their job search, many of which are outlined on the Resume & Cover letter page on our alumni website. Additionally, resources such as VMock provide a great first review of your resume and instant results. Any advice for navigating a job search in the... View Details

April 2023
Case

Strive Asset Management

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and Aldo Sesia

Strive Asset Management, which launched in 2022, was actively targeting several leading U.S. companies in the upcoming 2023 proxy voting season to stop acquiescing to those large asset managers and other institutional shareholders who were pressing those companies to... View Details

Keywords: ESG; Shareholder Activism; Asset Management; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Risk Management; Climate Change; Diversity; Equity; Financial Services Industry; United States