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- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
Productivity is also consistent with a clean environment. Environmental pollution normally is a sign of inefficient and unproductive use of resources and is almost always a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
proportion such as 10 percent. Further, in terms of job quality, those employed in factory jobs generally are less safe, use more energy, and pollute more than those in services. With the decline in real... View Details
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
installing an electric heat pump in every household in the U.S. would reduce annual emissions by 160 million metric tonnes [3]. Lastly, heat pump adoption will lead to less pollution and cleaner, safer air.... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
Regulators often punish companies for bad behavior—for instance, by fining them if they pollute the environment. But instead of focusing on what business leaders are doing wrong and constantly slapping their... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021) and James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021) Photo courtesy Syrup Tech Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world, says James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021), who worked in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 Apr 2021
- Cold Call Podcast
Disrupting the Waste Industry with Technology
Keywords: Re: Shai Benjamin Bernstein
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
mechanism." The basic concept is straightforward enough: A cap is set on carbon emissions. Companies can then buy and sell a limited number of emission permits, which allows them flexibility in their View Details
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
enforcement on air pollution controls. In California, OpenCounter streamlined registration for small businesses and provided zoning clearances in a fraction of the usual time. In New York, Mark43 is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
and interpreting data about industrial environment performance because it brings together information about companies' environmental management, provided voluntarily by managers in real time, with companies' View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
The decline of the community newspaper in the United States has been steep and severe. A quarter of American papers have folded in the last 15 years, and industry-wide consolidation has eviscerated the... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
that has proven effective in pollutant absorption both above and beneath the surface of water. Smith has been working closely with fishermen in the Gulf area to help rid the affected waters of the propylene... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
information about a company he or she manages. The student must make decisions about pollution-reducing investments and production levels in the face of uncertainty about pollution permit prices. Students... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2019
- News
Smarter Farming
intensification of land. That means putting more animals on our land than we've ever had before. And for many, it has been successful. But now we've found that our farmland is heavily polluted with... View Details
- 28 Apr 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
Sweden’s Northvolt Electric Battery Maker: A Startup with a Mission
- Article
From Blood Diamonds to Dirty Gold: How to Buy Gold Less Tainted by Mercury
By: Kristin Sippl
This is a quick and easy news article on the link between poverty, mercury pollution, and gold mining. It explains the problems in the jewelry industry as well as public and civil society attempts to address them. View Details
Sippl, Kristin. "From Blood Diamonds to Dirty Gold: How to Buy Gold Less Tainted by Mercury." The Conversation (December 22, 2015).
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
will operate, recognizing that’s decades not quarters. This requires considering our current and future customers, communities, employees, and shareholders—not just the people we are working with today. The... View Details
- February 1984 (Revised March 1984)
- Teaching Note
Environmental Protection Agency: Emergency Pesticide Exemptions, Teaching Note
By: David E. Bell
- June 2024
- Article
Economics of Enhanced Methane Oxidation Relative to Carbon Dioxide Removal
By: Conor Hickey and Myles Allen
Mitigating short-term global warming is imperative, and a key strategy involves reducing atmospheric methane (CH4) due to its high radiative forcing and short lifespan. This objective can be achieved through methods such as oxidising methane at its source or... View Details
Keywords: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Pollutants; Research; Measurement and Metrics
Hickey, Conor, and Myles Allen. "Economics of Enhanced Methane Oxidation Relative to Carbon Dioxide Removal." Art. 4043. Environmental Research Letters 19, no. 6 (June 2024).