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  • 17 Jun 2025
  • Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience

business and the environment. Email bei@hbs.edu to learn more about upcoming events. The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, in collaboration with Harvard Business School’s Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) and Harvard View Details
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

$how Me the Money

petition that calls for greater transparency in the global financial system and stronger enforcement of international money-monitoring laws and regulations. For Baker, this is the latest salvo in a long campaign that began in Nigeria,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
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Lena teaches the required first year MBA course on Leadership and Corporate Accountability, an elective second year MBA course on Law, Management and Entrepreurship, and an elective second year MBA course on Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry. View Details
Keywords: Compliance; Governance; Fiduciary Duties; Responsibilities To Investors; Responsibilities To Customers; Restaurants; Sustainability; Private Equity Documentation; Start-ups; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition; Law; Laws and Statutes; Lawsuits and Litigation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Food; Environmental Sustainability; Private Ownership; Private Equity; Food and Beverage Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Europe; Chile; India
  • 06 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all, cigarette makers once used... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Mead Treadwell

goals for Arctic research is to put in place an environmental observing system that helps us understand changes in the Arctic, a critical component of the global system. We can’t get a fix on climate change just by focusing on what comes... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Transportation
  • March 2025 (Revised June 2025)
  • Background Note

Getting to Net Zero: The Role of the Financial Sector

By: Shawn Cole, Jonah Zahnd, Karina Chung and Jack Cenovic
In early 2025, momentum towards the goal of reaching net zero carbon emissions by 2050 continued in many parts of the world, even as it appeared to face a set-back following the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States. Financial institutions... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Law; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Risk and Uncertainty; Competitive Advantage; Financial Services Industry
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Cole, Shawn, Jonah Zahnd, Karina Chung, and Jack Cenovic. "Getting to Net Zero: The Role of the Financial Sector." Harvard Business School Background Note 225-066, March 2025. (Revised June 2025.)
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

How Green Was My (Silicon) Valley

DOERR AND ADVISEE: From bits and bytes to batteries and biofuels. Saul Loeb/Afp/Getty Images “A boyish billionaire in glasses,” John Doerr (MBA ’76) began to shift his focus from bits and bytes to batteries and biofuels about four years ago, according to Time magazine... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs
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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience - Blog - Business & Environment

Environmental & Energy Law Program (EELP), hosted a panel and networking reception during San Francisco Climate Week at the University Club of San Francisco focused on how communities, businesses, and... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

New Releases

time when 30 to 40 percent of Americans switch religions during their lifetimes. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard Divinity School, McLennan is a Unitarian Universalist minister and chaplain at Tufts University who has spent... View Details
  • June 2022 (Revised January 2023)
  • Case

South Africa – a 'Just Energy Transition'

By: Richard Vietor
South Africa, like most other countries, is in the process of reducing its carbon emissions to comply with COP26 and, hopefully, reach net zero emissions by 2050. However, because South Africa relies almost wholly on coal (93%) for electricity, and on coal for... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Economic Development; Climate Change; Coal Mining; Emission Reduction; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Law; Labor and Management Relations; Labor Unions; Natural Resources; Energy Policy; Energy Sources; South Africa
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Vietor, Richard. "South Africa – a 'Just Energy Transition'." Harvard Business School Case 722-069, June 2022. (Revised January 2023.)
  • 04 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

resolution and negotiation classes concerning how to enlarge the pie. I believe that the mindset of exploring wise tradeoffs is more common in business schools than in law or policy schools, where adversarial relations are too commonly... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Making a Difference in the World

“If each household ” Union of Concerned Scientists “Common Sense on Climate Change, Solution #3” “The top 3,000 .” UN Environmental Program Finance Initiative. 2010. “universal Ownership: Why environmental... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

federal government reacted with the passage of the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires all projects licensed by the government to file an environmental impact statement. The Clean Air Act, a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities
  • 2021
  • Other Unpublished Work

Obsolescence of the Obsolescing Bargain: Why Governments Must Get Investor-State Contracts Right

By: Louis T. Wells and Karl P. Sauvant
Gone are the days when governments could easily renegotiate natural resource and other investment contracts if foreign investors, e.g., reaped bonanzas from rising resource prices, surprisingly rich discoveries, or terms that were too favorable. Today, international... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Investment; Contracts; Natural Resources; Negotiation; Global Range
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Wells, Louis T., and Karl P. Sauvant. "Obsolescence of the Obsolescing Bargain: Why Governments Must Get Investor-State Contracts Right." Columbia FDI Perspectives, No. 298, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, February 2021.
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

An Unconventional Suggestion

minimize the local environmental impact of extraction, and speed the transition to cleaner, lower-carbon energy. The report’s analysis found “no inherent trade-off between environmental protection and... View Details
Keywords: April White; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

Q & A: Herb Kohl

cut spending. As a businessman, I know the money you don't spend often representsyour profit. In a Wisconsin vein, I'm working to change the formula by which dairy prices are paid to farmers. We are a dairy state, and because of a law... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Feb 2021
  • News

Locally Grown

Inspired by the natural beauty he found when he moved to Boulder, Colorado, Robert Fenwick-Smith (MBA 1988) created Aravaipa Ventures, an unusual venture capital fund to support environmentally sustainable technology businesses in the... View Details
  • 08 Jul 2016
  • News

So Why Don't You Have Your Dream Job Yet?

Big Think, “it's relatively easy to maximize one point on the triangle and it's often okay to maximize the second, but usually the third point slips.” Citrin, partner at executive search firm Spencer Stuart, offers a few potential examples: A job in a View Details
  • 01 Apr 1996
  • News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

they generated. That year, in an unprecedented partnership, New England Electric joined forces with an historic adversary — the Conservation Law Foundation, a leading environmental group — to develop a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb
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