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How Lab - Grown Cotton can Decarbonize Textiles
- 19 JUN 2024
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- Climate Rising
Today’s episode is the fourth in our series on decarbonizing the roots of value chains,
where we’re looking deep into supply chains that serve many industries. Previously
we talked about the technical products of green concrete and green steel, and agriculture
through the lens of regenerative agriculture. Today we continue our focus on decarbonizing
agricultural products by focusing on lab-grown cotton. Luciano Bueno, founder and
CEO of GALY, joins me today to talk about how his biomaterials start-up uses sugar
to feed cells and grow cotton in the lab. Luciano will share how he rebounded from
a venture that failed, and then started GALY and grew it into the Series B company
it is today. I’ll also ask him to share his views of the future of lab-grown fabrics
and his reflections on entrepreneurship in climate tech more broadly. Host and Guest
Climate Rising Host: Professor Mike Toffel, Faculty Chair, Business & Environment
Initiative (LinkedIn) Guest: Luciano Bueno, Founder and CEO at GALY (LinkedIn)
Today’s episode is the fourth in our series on decarbonizing the roots of value chains,
where we’re looking deep into supply chains that serve many industries. Previously
we talked about the technical products of green concrete and green steel, and agriculture
through the lens of regenerative agriculture. Today we continue our focus on decarbonizing
agricultural products by focusing on lab-grown cotton. Luciano Bueno, founder and
CEO of GALY, joins me today to talk about how his biomaterials start-up uses sugar
to feed cells and grow cotton in the lab. Luciano will share how he rebounded from
a venture that failed, and then started GALY and grew it into the Series B company
it is today. I’ll also ask him to share his views of the future of lab-grown fabrics
and his reflections on entrepreneurship in climate tech more broadly. Host and Guest
Climate Rising Host: Professor Mike Toffel, Faculty Chair, Business & Environment
Initiative (LinkedIn) Guest: Luciano Bueno, Founder and CEO at GALY (LinkedIn)
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Ship of Renowned Polar Explorer Ernest Shackleton Found on Ocean Floor
Re: Nancy Koehn
- 12 Jun 2024
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- CNN
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
Re: Amy Edmondson, Arthur Brooks, Julia Austin, Jeff Bussgang, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & DJ DiDonna
- 11 Jun 2024
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- HBS Working Knowledge
The Home State Effect: How Subnational Governments Shape Climate Coalitions
- JULY 2024
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- Governance
Organized business interests often seek to block public interest regulations. But whether firms oppose regulation depends on institutional context. We argue that, in federal systems, sub-national policies and politics can have a home state effect on firms' national policy preferences and the lobbying coalitions they join. State policies that force firms to absorb regulatory cost can reduce the marginal cost of national policies, leading to preference shifts. In addition, firms regulated at the state level have incentives to strategically align with their state governments to avoid future regulatory cost. We test our argument in the context of U.S. climate politics, matching original data on the positions of electric utilities toward the Clean Power Plan and data on ad hoc coalition membership with data measuring state policy stringency and state government positions. Quantitative evidence is consistent with hypotheses: both state policies and state politics influence utilities' positions on national climate policy. Qualitative evidence from elite interviews helps clarify the roles of different mechanisms. Our findings underscore the importance of sub-national governments in shaping national lobbying coalitions.
JSW Steel: Balancing Growth While Decarbonizing
- JUNE 2024
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- Teaching Material
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 824-002.
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
- 11 JUN 2024
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- In Practice
What's on your vacation reading list? Harvard Business School faculty members plan to explore not only sober themes, such as philosophy and climate policy, but classic mysteries and hip-hop history.
Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (A): The State of Play
- JUNE 2024
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- Teaching Material
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-119. Miami-Dade County led the work to get South Florida designated a national climate resilience tech hub, the only one of 31 focused on climate change, an urgent major issue for the region in light of global warming and sea level rise. Venture capitalists saw the potential but not many investable ventures; some entrepreneurs created scalable ventures but without much regional support; economic development agencies were not yet fully building the ecosystem or just getting started. Most wanted more from government, higher education, and others. The label “climate tech hub” had to be backed by specific proposals to attract available funding. What are the gaps and missing ingredients? What actions might fill the gaps?
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