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- 07 Oct 2019
- News
Weighting accounts for impact
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
your values Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values Fashion designer Stella McCartney shows that luxury and sustainability need not be mutually exclusive in a case study by Anat Keinan. Demonstrate bottom-line...
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- 2014
- Working Paper
Making the Business Case for Environmental Sustainability
Can a business case be made for acting sustainably? This is a difficult question to answer precisely, largely because there is no generally accepted definition of the term "sustainability". Is it acting sustainably to protect the human rights of the firm's workforce?...
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Henderson, Rebecca. "Making the Business Case for Environmental Sustainability." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-068, February 2015.
- 19 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The Globalization of Corporate Environmental Disclosure: Accountability or Greenwashing?
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues
Professor Shon Hiatt highlights the benefits of federalism in fostering state policy experimentation and explains the impact of these laws on innovation and entrepreneurship in the U.S. geothermal power sector.
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- 15 Dec 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions
Keywords:
by Lisa L.Shu & Max H. Bazerman
- Web
Impact Investments
Zochowski Why Impact Investing? Impact investing has become a central, rapidly expanding part of the investment landscape in the United States and across the world. Impact...
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- December 1996
- Background Note
Environmental Behavior And Corporate Reputation
Greyser, Stephen A. "Environmental Behavior And Corporate Reputation." Harvard Business School Background Note 597-014, December 1996.
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
stellar cast of practitioners, management researchers, and business and environmental historians. As co-organizer of the event with HBS Professor Amy Edmondson and Swedish business historian Anki Bergquist, I was thrilled as the...
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- 2004
- Chapter
Institutional Pressure and Environmental Management Practices
By: Magali Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
Keywords:
Management Practices and Processes;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability
Delmas, Magali, and Michael W. Toffel. "Institutional Pressure and Environmental Management Practices." Chap. 10 in Stakeholders, the Environment and Society, edited by Sanjay Sharma and Mark Starik, 230–245. New Perspectives in Research on Corporate Sustainability. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004.
- February 2013
- Article
Exceptional Boards: Environmental Experience and Positive Deviance from Institutional Norms
By: Judith Walls and Andrew J. Hoffman
This paper explores the phenomenon of positive organizational deviance from institutional norms by establishing practices that protect or enhance the natural environment. Seeking to explain why some organizations practice positive environmental deviance while others do...
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Keywords:
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Networks;
Organizational Culture;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Environmental Management
Walls, Judith, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "Exceptional Boards: Environmental Experience and Positive Deviance from Institutional Norms." Special Issue on Greening Organizational Behavior. Journal of Organizational Behavior 34, no. 2 (February 2013): 253–271.
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Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment
justice—particularly the disproportionate effects on marginalized communities locally and globally. Impact Weighted Accounts The mission of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project is to drive the creation of financial accounts that reflect a...
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- August 2021 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion
By: Michael W. Toffel, Ken Pucker and Eren Kuzucu
Allbirds is a footwear startup focused on simple design, comfort, and sustainable natural materials. The case describes the company’s product development process that works with suppliers to develop natural materials including wool and sugarcane to substitute for...
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Keywords:
Decarbonization;
Climate Impact;
Environmental Strategy;
Innovation;
Product Design;
Supply Chain Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Product Development;
Climate Change;
Environmental Management;
Environmental Sustainability;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Fashion Industry;
United States;
California
Toffel, Michael W., Ken Pucker, and Eren Kuzucu. "Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion." Harvard Business School Case 622-024, August 2021. (Revised December 2022.)
- October, 2023
- Article
Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: Housing Market Impacts of Removing Legacy Pollutants
By: Alecia Cassidy, Robyn C. Meeks and Michale R. Moore
The Great Lakes and their tributaries make up the largest freshwater system on the planet, providing drinking water and recreational value to millions of people. Yet manufacturing plants left a legacy of toxic pollutants in the region, tarnishing it as part of the...
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Keywords:
Valuation Of Environmental Effects;
Housing Demand;
Water Pollution;
Water Quality;
Infrastructure;
Pollution;
Consumer Behavior
Cassidy, Alecia, Robyn C. Meeks, and Michale R. Moore. "Cleaning Up the Great Lakes: Housing Market Impacts of Removing Legacy Pollutants." Journal of Public Economics 226 (October, 2023).
- 2017
- Article
Natural Environmental Responsibility in Indian Corporations: A Mixed Method Study
By: Shashank Shah
The world is going through unprecedented environmental crisis. The type of destruction and dissolution of natural resources and elements by individuals and institutions that has been witnessed in the last century is much more than that witnessed in the previous...
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Keywords:
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Natural Environment;
Management Practices and Processes;
Research;
Framework;
India
Shah, Shashank. "Natural Environmental Responsibility in Indian Corporations: A Mixed Method Study." Journal of Human Values 20, no. 2 (October 2014): 129–151.
- 2012
- Chapter
Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy
By: Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
A broad literature has emerged over the past decades demonstrating that firms' environmental strategies and practices are influenced by stakeholders and institutional pressures. Such findings are consistent with institutional sociology, which emphasizes the importance...
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Keywords:
Management Practices and Processes;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Natural Environment;
Business Strategy
Delmas, Magali A., and Michael W. Toffel. "Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy." In The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment, edited by Pratima Bansal and Andrew J. Hoffman. Oxford University Press, 2012.
- 02 Nov 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Accounting for Organizational Employment Impact
- 2022
- Chapter
Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The case of Wilderness Safaris
By: James E. Austin, Megan Epler Woods and Herman B. Leonard
This chapter analyzes the entrepreneurial conception and evolution of the Wilderness Safaris (WS) ecotourism enterprise operating in eight African countries. It illuminates a series of factors that contribute to positive environmental impact as well as financial...
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Austin, James E., Megan Epler Woods, and Herman B. Leonard. "Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The Case of Wilderness Safaris." Chap. 7 in World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Sustainability, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship, Volume 1: Environmental and Social Entrepreneurship, edited by Peter Gianiodis, Maritza I. Espina, and William R. Meek, 175–196. World Scientific Publishing, 2022.
- October 2023
- Case
Prime Coalition: Estimating Climate Impact
A case on CRANE, a tool to help investors and green technology companies estimate the future climate impact of new technologies and products, called emissions reduction potential (ERP). The case includes material on CRANE’s methodology for estimating future carbon...
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Keywords:
Carbon Emissions;
Environmental Accounting;
Analysis;
Climate Change;
Green Technology;
Innovation and Invention;
Measurement and Metrics;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Social Enterprise
Rigol, Natalia, Benjamin N. Roth, Brian Trelstad, and Amram Migdal. "Prime Coalition: Estimating Climate Impact." Harvard Business School Case 824-119, October 2023.