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  • 04 Sep 2024
  • Video

Announcing the 2024-2025 Institute for Business in Global Society (BiGS) Fellows

  • 2025
  • Working Paper

An Empirical Examination of Business Climate Alliances: Effective and/or Harmful?

By: Matteo Gasparini and Peter Tufano
This research studies business alliances that seek to address climate change, offering empirical evidence to address claims advanced by alliance supporters and critics. We study eleven major alliances mostly focused on financial services firms and 424 major... View Details
Keywords: Antitrust; Climate Change; Financial Institutions; Competition; Network Effects; Alliances
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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Food & Agriculture Innovation will reduce agriculture impacts and help farmers adapt The Green Revolution in the 20 th century dramatically increased crop yields and reduced global poverty by half. [25] These... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1998
  • News

Not Your Typical Business Conference

Buttner's (HRPBA '58) informative talk on the importance of financial investing for women, to the three upbeat and entertaining panels on how to succeed in corporate, nontraditional, and entrepreneurial career pursuits, to a moving speech on the power of the human... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2017
  • News

The Business of Lego Batman

weekends in a row. He spoke with associate editor Julia Hanna about everything from his approach to a film’s business plan, to the challenges of managing internal growth on his teams—and how the Lego Movie is like The Avengers. READ MORE... View Details
Keywords: LEGO; Lego
  • 13 Feb 2024
  • HBS Seminar

Stijn van Osselaer, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

certification and standards programs designed to facilitate the growth of green industries and the early stages of ESG investing. The second path, which developed from the 1970s, grew out of the interest of big View Details
  • September 2009 (Revised September 2010)
  • Case

Genzyme Center (A)

By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
Keywords: Green Building; LEED Rating System; Economic And Environmental Performance; Program Evaluation And Assessment; Tradeoffs Between Process- And Performance Standards; Buildings and Facilities; Business Headquarters; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Improvement; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Green Technology Industry
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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

decision-making. Highlights Learn about the basic accounting equation organizations use to gauge performance. Examine how Green Mountain Coffee evaluates business performance and potential using financial... View Details
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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society

challenges. Each Roundtable focuses on regional challenges while exploring the evolving role of business in society. More about Global Leadership Roundtables Europe’s green transition Uncover the impact of... View Details
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2022, over 65 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some... View Details
  • Web

Policy - Business & Environment

Confronting Climate Change Policy From obstruction to leadership For much of the last 50 years, powerful segments of the business community have opposed government action on climate change. The fossil fuel industry in particular, seeing... 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
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology
  • Blog

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

on Climate Change by Joan Fitzgerald. I will also dip into Palaces for the People by Eric Klinenberg, a book about "social infrastructure" more generally, which offers insight into urban green spaces, an achievable climate solution.... View Details
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Finance & Investing - Business & Environment

and public sector responses. The wide-ranging effects of environmental risks, technological advances, infrastructure challenges, business model innovations, and national and international policy shifts are impacting the financial sector... View Details
  • September 2022
  • Case

ROI vs. ROI: The Grupo Baobá Family Office

By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Jiawei Ye and Grace Headinger
Fernando Scodro, a third-generation member of his family, mulled over the next step in integrating an ESG strategy into his family office’s investment portfolio. While his family office, Grupo Baobá, had made excellent progress in incorporating his family’s values into... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; ESG; Green Building; Family; Partnership; Latin America; Brazil; Buildings and Facilities; Green Buildings; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Financial Management; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Brazil; Latin America
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  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

when harnessed to development work. In 1992, having come under pressure from the Green Party in Germany, DaimlerBenz (as it was then known) started looking for ways to use more renewable natural fibers in its automobiles. At the same... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century Request the Data A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Robert S. Abbott Chicago Defender, 1905–1940 Benjamin Abrams Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corporation, 1922–1966... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2020
  • Blog Post

A Crash Course in Saving a Family Business

Jiyoon Han (MBA 2021) is getting a taste of what it’s like to be a case protagonist—learning how to pivot while measuring unforeseen challenges against new opportunities. When news broke in March about how COVID-19 would affect the Harvard View Details
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

The 85-year-old Business History Review, published quarterly by Harvard Business School, is the acknowledged leading peer-reviewed journal in the field. (BHR has recently been made available online through... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman