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- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
The development of corporate integrated reporting (IR) standards has the promise to be one of the great business innovations of the 21st century, and could be pivotal in restoring public trust in business institutions, Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria told a... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kim Scott
My father forgot what was really important to him until it was too late. He was then left with an empty existence once he realized life had passed him by. I will live passionately. And I will use my energy to make those who are important... View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
than any other company." The case ends with key decisions for the future. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/113001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-054 Groom Energy Solutions: Selling Efficiency Groom View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412050-PDF-ENG Envision Charlotte: Building an Energy Cluster (Abridged) William W. GeorgeHarvard Business School Case 412-087 Charlotte, North Carolina, was one of the leading economic centers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
in the last 150 years of U.S. business history. Barriers to Acting in Time on Energy, and Strategies for Overcoming Them Author:Max Bazerman Publication:Environment (in press). (Adaptation of a paper that originally appeared in K. Gallagher, ed. Acting in Time on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- January 2018
- Case
Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather
By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Aldo Sesia
It is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a UK-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately held UK company that manufactured engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally friendly... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Venture Capital; Investment Strategy; Investment; Strategy; Ownership; Valuation; Energy Conservation; Equity; Technological Innovation; Environmental Sustainability; Performance Efficiency; Manufacturing Industry; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
Gandhi, Vikram S., and Aldo Sesia. "Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather." Harvard Business School Case 318-001, January 2018.
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
later, as an analyst at Fidelity and a portfolio manager at SAC Capital. “I spent 15 years researching and trading in the food and energy space,” says Tiller. “In the course of doing my research, I developed views not just on what was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
and tech-savvy efficiency" in a country where energy and optimism coexist with persistent poverty and corruption. He says the team came away with a more realistic view of the challenges, opportunities, and responsibilities that await a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Tackling the data dilemma
centers. HP’s answer is the Moonshot server system, introduced in 2013, which uses 89 percent less energy and 80 percent less space, and costs 77 percent less than a traditional server environment. “No other company is taking on the... View Details
- Profile
Folafolu Folowosele
Central America with an energy company, despite the fact that “I didn’t know Spanish, and I knew nothing about the energy industry!” Fola quickly mastered both – and learned something more. “I saw how... View Details
- Web
IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog
zero, and the need and ways to build a sustainable future. Students will explore the balance of maintaining basic development goals, such as improving infrastructure, reducing poverty, energy access, housing, transport services, water,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
worries by emphasizing green energy use and decreased water consumption. Meanwhile, lab-grown diamonds, which first entered the commercial jewelry market in the late 1980s and are forecasted to be 10 percent of the market by 2030, have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
“There’s no better horse in the world you could possibly hitch your cart to.” That’s how Matthew Nordan summed up the state of clean, green energy at the School’s Building Green Businesses conference in early March. During the session... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
to drive a cheaper car, or insulate their house and be a little more energy efficient,” says Minnick. At the same time, however, the plan would use the extra revenues generated from the carbon fee to issue a tax credit to middle-class... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 14 Oct 2014
- News
When it comes to climate change, companies must prepare now
operations to take advantage of the opportunities, and skirt the dangers raised by the prospect of climate change,” Reinhardt says. Each company must evaluate its use of energy in its own context. In some cases, other firms or governments... View Details
- Career Coach
Grace Keliher
Grace is passionate about climate and sustainability, social impact, and DEI. She understands how important it is to find inclusion and belonging in the workplace in addition to purpose and fulfillment. She has spent her career in the View Details
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49339 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-016 The Sino-Russian Rapprochement: Energy Relations in a New Era The United States could enhance or threaten China's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (B) Maarten W. Bos, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Kyle T. DohertyHarvard Business School Supplement 911-061 The case profiles OPOWER, an energy efficiency... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2023
- Blog Post
Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week
This is a repost from HBS Newsroom, see the original post here. “Climate change, and the energy and materials transition, is one of the most complicated and challenging business, geopolitical, and social issues of our century. At the same... View Details
- 22 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Earth Day 2022 with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative
The speakers were just as varied, from vegan Olympian Seba Johnson to prominent documentary director of Game Changers, Louie Psihoyos. Read More >> Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy By Alsey Davidson There are so... View Details