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  • April 2025
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How Central Banks Manage Climate and Energy Transition Risks

By: Esther Shears, Jonas Meckling and Jared Finnegan
Central banks have begun to examine and manage climate risks, including both transition risks of moving from fossil fuels to clean energy and physical climate risks. Here we provide a systematic assessment of how and why central banks address climate risks on the basis... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Risk and Uncertainty; Climate Change; Transition; Risk Management
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  • September 2024
  • Case

TechEnergy Ventures: Innovating Through Corporate Venture Capital

By: Rebecca Karp and Lena Duchene
This case examines TechEnergy Ventures, the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of the Techint Group, and its role in scaling innovation within the energy sector. Founded in 2021, TechEnergy Ventures operates with a mandate to invest in disruptive technologies to... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Alternative Energy; Renewable Energy; Metals and Minerals; Mining; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Finance; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Growth and Development Strategy; Adaptation; Diversification; Innovation Strategy; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Italy; Europe; Latin America; Argentina
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  • June 2025
  • Case

Power Struggles: Hydro-Quebec’s Energy Dilemma

By: Juan Alcacer and Danika Couture-Peck
In 2024, Maxime Aucoin, Executive Vice President and CFO of Hydro-Quebec, faced a series of compounding challenges as the utility confronted rapidly rising electricity demand, public pricing constraints, and strained stakeholder relationships. As the steward of... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Vertical Integration; Energy; Energy Industry; Canada
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  • March 2024 (Revised November 2024)
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Kawasaki Heavy Industries Bets on Clean Hydrogen

By: Gunnar Trumbull, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI), an engineering manufacturer headquartered in Japan, was aiming to scale up its hydrogen production and establish a global hydrogen supply chain. The initiative was in line with Japan's energy strategy, as the country seeks to transition... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Demand and Consumers; Competition; Growth and Development Strategy; Infrastructure; Supply Chain; Manufacturing Industry; Energy Industry
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  • September 2022
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Energy Innovation Funding and Institutions in Major Economies

By: Jonas Meckling, Clara Galeazzi, Esther Shears, Tong Xu and Laura Diaz Anadon
Accelerating energy innovation for decarbonization hinges on public investment in research, development and demonstration (RD&D). Here we examine the evolution and variation of public energy RD&D funding and institutions and associated drivers across eight major... View Details
Keywords: Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Energy Policy; Government Legislation; Energy Sources
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  • 2023
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Green Bargains: Leveraging Public Investment to Advance Climate Regulation

By: Jonas Meckling and Jesse Strecker
Climate policy has entered a new era as public investment is increasingly moving to center stage, including recovery spending and long-term climate investment plans. While essential for decarbonization, public investment is not enough – the carrots of investment need... View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; Environmental Regulation; Climate Change; Policy; Motivation and Incentives
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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

models. Video Recording Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits? Faculty Moderator: Peter Tufano (MBA 1984, PHDBE 1989) , Baker Foundation Professor Speakers: Scott Jacobs (MBA 2007) , CEO & Cofounder, Generate Capital Girish... View Details
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Business Opportunties in Climate Adaptation

By: John D. Macomber

This is a Short Intensive Program or SIP at Harvard Business School.  It’s an optional student offering prior to the formal start of the Spring semester the following week.  SIPs tend to cover new material on current topics, to be less formal than the HBS Case Study... View Details

Keywords: Resilience; Climate Risk; Climate Impact; Fire Protection; Insurance Risk Exposure; Hedge Fund; Public Health; Public Health Measures; Climate Change; Adaptation; Infrastructure; Real Estate Industry; Transportation Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Africa; Latin America
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Blog - Business & Environment

Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC View Details
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Hiring Organizations

Hydration Curio Digital Therapeutics Inc. Custom Truck One Source Cyprium Partners D D. E. Shaw Group, The Danone Databricks Datadog David Protein DaVita DC Advisory De Soi Decarbonization Partners DECKED Deloitte Delta Air Lines Diageo... View Details
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Accelerating Solutions - Business & Environment

finance to supply chain, and from CEOs to CFOs, climate has become a business imperative that extends across sectors and disciplines. HBS professors share the latest insights. Highlights Video Full Panel Video Inching Closer: Who Will Pay for a View Details
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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

Decarbonization By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel and Susan Pinckney June 2025 | Teaching Note | Faculty Research Teaching note for Arla Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A), HBS No. 624-003... View Details
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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

Family Firms ; Leadership ; Succession ; Succession Planning ; CEO Succession ; CEO Role ; Decarbonization ; Resilience ; Innovation ; Organizational Transformations ; AI and Machine Learning ; Digital Strategy ; Digital Transformation ;... View Details
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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

accessed October 18, 2019. “ Forests and Climate Change ,” International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), November 2017. “ Food Regenerative Agriculture ,” Project Drawdown, 2019, accessed October 15, 2019. Rebecca Duff, Michael J Lenox, “ Batten Report Path to... View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment

Government and the International Economy Pakistan at 75: When Will the "Nazuk Mor" End? Singapore: "From Third World to First" Thailand: Red Shirts, Yellow Shirts, and a Green Revolution Data Science for Managers Arla Foods: Decarbonizing... View Details
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Events - Business & Environment

Designing for Decarbonization: Spotlight on Carbon Dioxide Removal Organizers: Energy & Environment Club; Sustainability Club 12 FEB 2025 | Columbia University; Harvard Club of NYC Open to Harvard Community Design for Decarbonization is a... View Details
  • 30 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration

essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. Visit Date:... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
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About - Business & Environment

Elective Curriculum course Tough Tech Ventures, which will include climate related topics. BiGS Climate Fellows Jonas Meckling Associate professor at the University of California Berkeley The political economy of decarbonization With a... View Details
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ハーバード - Global

infrastructure, its technological ambitions, and Japan's commitment to hydrogen provided a strong foundation for success. KHI could potentially lead the hydrogen industry and support Japan's decarbonization goals. Was it a smart choice... View Details