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  • 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
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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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership

with the certainty necessary to make investments." In 2009, Duke joined a business coalition called USCAP (United States Climate Action Partnership) to encourage Congress to pass laws limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Should Duke Energy... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Energy; Utilities
  • 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
  • 02 Dec 2018
  • News

An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

On the 50th floor of a global law firm, overlooking a cold and rainy Manhattan skyline in November, more than 70 Harvard Business School alumni gathered to learn from each other and confront the business implications of climate change... View Details
Keywords: Allison Webster; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 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 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
  • 09 Mar 2010
  • News

Leading the Green Tech Revolution

Keywords: Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs
  • 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
  • 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
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Policies | MBA

Regional Director, Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, J. W. McCormack POCH, Room 222, Post Office Square, Boston, MA 02109-4557. Annual Security & Fire Safety Report Availability The University is required by federal View Details
  • 06 May 2019
  • Research & Ideas

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

that are thoughtfully resourced and leave a smaller environmental footprint. Investors are paying attention, too, with impact investing hitting $60 billion in 2015. Attention to the negative impacts of work on health is also on the rise.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 05 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit

forest at a nearby Tata Thermal Power Plant. While peering out from a 150 meter-high coal power plant boiler, we saw a large swath of mangroves in the distance. Later, we arrived at the Godrej headquarters, where we were greeted by Godrej’s Head of 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
  • September 2010
  • Article

Making Self-Regulation More Than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment

By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Using data from a sample of U.S. industrial facilities subject to the federal Clean Air Act from 1993 to 2003, this article theorizes and tests the conditions under which organizations' symbolic commitments to self-regulate are particularly likely to result in improved... View Details
Keywords: Adoption; Code Law; Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Organizations; Governance Compliance; Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; United States
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Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "Making Self-Regulation More Than Merely Symbolic: The Critical Role of the Legal Environment." Administrative Science Quarterly 55, no. 3 (September 2010): 361–396. (Lead article; Featured in the Stanford Social Innovation Review (Summer 2011) and in Behind the scenes of the Administrative Science Quarterly.)
  • 16 Jun 2023
  • Blog Post

The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)

non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and management consulting firms. We interviewed leaders from NGOs like World Wildlife Fund, Environmental Defense Fund, and CDP about how they work with companies on their climate initiatives and... View Details
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