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- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
When I arrived at Klarman Hall, the buzz was much like an ordinary convening. People were checking in at the registration desk, pouring coffee, and catching up with colleagues. But this was not an ordinary convening. I was on the Harvard Business School campus... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Sending a warning about climate change dangers
Dan Abbasi (AB 1986, MBA 1998) has produced “Years of Living Dangerously,” a Showtime TV series about the impact of climate change. (Published April 2014) View Details
- April 2022
- Supplement
PG&E and the First Climate Change Bankruptcy
By: Stuart C. Gilson
- February 2024
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B6): Miami Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details
- February 2024
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B14): San Jose Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Hailey Chen and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Taking up the issue of climate change
As chairman of Walt Disney Studios, Alan Horn (MBA 1971) is in the business of creating magical worlds that captivate audiences. He also is passionate about the real-world issue of climate change and its... View Details
- 28 Mar 2018
- Video
The Role of Business Leaders in the Age of Climate Change
- 25 Nov 2019
- Podcast
Business and the Politics of Climate Change
What influence does business have on the politics of climate change? In today’s episode, we'll look at how climate change affects different businesses, and how proposed regulations like a carbon tax could help or harm business. Weighing in with their unique... View Details
- 04 Dec 2024
- News
Climate Change Experts See Dark Clouds Ahead
- 12 Sep 2019
Tackling Climate Change in the MBA Classroom
- 2024
- Working Paper
Climate Solutions, Transition Risk, and Stock Returns
By: Shirley Lu, Edward J. Riedl, Simon Xu and George Serafeim
Using large language models to measure firms' climate solution products and services, we find that high-climate solution firms exhibit lower stock returns and higher market valuation multiples. Their stock prices respond positively to events signaling increased demand... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Generative Ai; Large Language Models; Climate Finance; Climate Change; Innovation and Invention; Environmental Sustainability; AI and Machine Learning; Investment; Financial Markets
Lu, Shirley, Edward J. Riedl, Simon Xu, and George Serafeim. "Climate Solutions, Transition Risk, and Stock Returns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-024, November 2024.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Catalysts for Climate Solutions: Corporate Responses to Venture Capital Financing of Climate-tech Startups
By: Shirley Lu, George Serafeim and Simon Xu
We study whether incumbent firms increase their product focus on climate solutions in response to venture capital (VC) financing of climate-tech startups. Using large language models to measure a firm's focus on climate solutions, we find that incumbents in similar... View Details
Keywords: Climate Finance; Climate Change; Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Environmental Sustainability; Business Startups
Lu, Shirley, George Serafeim, and Simon Xu. "Catalysts for Climate Solutions: Corporate Responses to Venture Capital Financing of Climate-tech Startups." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-025, November 2024.
- 07 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
The theme of the 2022 Annual Climate Symposium was “Tackling Climate Together” with a focus on the intersectionality of climate change and the... View Details
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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment
Confronting Climate Change Effects of Climate Change The time to drive innovation is now The Climate Crisis is... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- Podcast
Rebecca Henderson: Can Capitalism Address Climate Change
As the impacts of climate change mount, questions have arisen about whether the capitalist economic system we have in place is able to adequately address them. But what if, rather than upending the system, we recognized the power capitalism offers when it is properly... View Details
- 28 Feb 2024
- Podcast
Visualizing our Changing Climate with Probable Futures
In this first episode of our series on adaptation, host Mike Toffel sits down with Spencer Glendon and Alison Smart of Probable Futures. They discuss how Probable Futures tools are educating decision makers to better understand how their organizations will experience... View Details
- 05 May 2010
- News
Leadership in the Age of Climate Change
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
Mobilizing Action on Climate Change and Water Quality
environment, in Ireland and in Europe, and in the world, I wanted to work with the Irish EPA. The main things we’re working on is water quality and climate change, trying to get people in Ireland mobilized and active, and View Details