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- 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...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
question: The data and analysis in the latest IPCC report amplified the reality that climate change is widespread, rapidly intensifying, and attributable to human activity. It also signaled both a...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 05 May 2010
- News
Leadership in the Age of Climate Change
- February 2024 (Revised April 2024)
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B8): Minneaoplis-St. Paul Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Praveen Kumar and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occured between 2018 and 2024, highlting major green initatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an...
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- 12 Sep 2019
Tackling Climate Change in the MBA Classroom
- February 2024
- Supplement
Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B4): Columbus Climate Action Snapshot
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Coelin P. Scibetta and Jacob A. Small
Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occured between 2018 and 2024, highlting major green initatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an...
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- Web
Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment
Confronting Climate Change Effects of Climate Change The time to drive innovation is now The Climate Crisis is...
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- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
The Evolving Academic Field of Climate Finance
By: Matteo Gasparini and Peter Tufano
The urgency and the magnitude of climate change will affect every aspect of our economies, societies, and planet. The academic finance research has begun to study the financial implications of global warming, although this body of literature is small. The field has...
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Keywords:
Climate Finance;
Finance Academia;
Greenhouse Gas;
Sustainable Finance;
Financial Decisions;
Educational Finance;
Finance;
Climate Change;
Transition
Gasparini, Matteo, and Peter Tufano. "The Evolving Academic Field of Climate Finance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-057, January 2023.
- Teaching Interest
Business Opportunties in Climate Adaptation
By: John D. Macomber
This is a Short Intensive Program or SIP at Harvard Business School. It’s an optional student offering prior to the formal start of the Spring semester the following week. SIPs tend to cover new material on current topics, to be less formal than the HBS Case Study... View Details
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
It was a dramatic contrast on our screens last week. As Hurricane Dorian unleashed nature’s fury on the Bahamas and danced with a wide swath of the East Coast of the United States, I flipped to the CNN Climate Town Hall, where Democratic presidential candidates...
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by John Macomber
- September 2016
- Teaching Note
Nuclear Energy: An Answer to Climate Change?
By: Michael W. Toffel and Glen W. S. Dowell
This case asks students to take the perspective of a nuclear energy industry association whose objective is convincing politicians and the public about the merits of its industry. The association is considering whether to approach environmental nongovernmental...
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- 01 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies
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by Erin M. Reid & Michael W. Toffel
- 2020
- Chapter
Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build
By: John D. Macomber
As fires, floods, and droughts increasingly threaten homes, businesses, and other institutions, climate risk has become financial risk. This implies that homeowners and investors have been making location decisions without properly pricing the cost of potential peril,...
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Macomber, John D. "Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build." In Climate Change: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review. Vol. 12. HBR Insights Series. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
- March 2022
- Article
Carbon Footprinting and Pricing under Climate Concerns
By: Marco Bertini, Stefan Buehler, Daniel Halbheer and Don Lehmann
This article studies how organizations should design a product by choosing the carbon footprint and price in a market with climate concerns. The authors first show how the cost and demand effects of reducing the product carbon footprint determine the profit-maximizing...
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Keywords:
Carbon Footprint;
Carbon Offsetting;
Climate Impact;
Net-zero Emissions;
Pricing;
Climate Change;
Product Design;
Price;
Environmental Sustainability;
Marketing
Bertini, Marco, Stefan Buehler, Daniel Halbheer, and Don Lehmann. "Carbon Footprinting and Pricing under Climate Concerns." Journal of Marketing 86, no. 2 (March 2022): 186–201.