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- 12 May 2023
- Video
Students Strive to Solve Climate Change
- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 19 Oct 2017
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Innovative Finance for the Common Good
Whether it's a vaccine or green bond, drought insurance, pay-as-you-go financing for solar electricity in Kenya, or discounted metro cards in New York, innovative finance is as much about incentives and sound decision making as it is about money; when it works,...
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- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment Initiative Careers...
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- 24 Nov 2020
- News
Investors Demand Climate Change Action
- 26 Apr 2015
- News
Investors’ climate change ‘gamble’ exposed
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966)
career, which is more than most can stand. In other words, you can’t know how much money you might make before the bubble bursts. That is so commercially painful that the big investment firms are almost never bearish except for now, which is very unusual. Looking...
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- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
either mitigation or adaptation. It’s both. Businesses can and must play a key role in driving society’s ability to mitigate and adapt to climate change. Professor John Macomber, a Senior Lecturer in the View Details
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Finance Curriculum - Faculty & Research
Finance Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) Finance I This course examines the role of View Details
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Finance - Faculty & Research
Finance Finance May 2014 Article Dynamics of Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from a Long-Run Field Experiment By: Shawn A. Cole, Daniel Stein and Jeremy Tobacman This paper estimates how...
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- 26 Mar 2018
- News
Funding Climate Change Solutions
In this video, Ousseynou Nakoulima (MBA 2009), director of the Green Climate Fund, discusses why his organization employs a holistic strategy to its work in developing countries. “The Green Climate Fund is a...
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- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental...
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by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
- June 2008 (Revised October 2008)
- Case
International Carbon Finance and EcoSecurities
By: Andre F. Perold, Forest L. Reinhardt and Mikell Hyman
In late 2007, EcoSecurities had to decide whether to undertake a new Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in China. EcoSecurities was an aggregator of carbon credits and also invested directly in projects that produced carbon credits. Governments and firms...
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Non-Renewable Energy;
Cost Management;
Investment Return;
Business and Government Relations;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Investment;
Cash Flow;
Valuation;
Pollutants;
Environmental Sustainability;
Financial Services Industry;
China
Perold, Andre F., Forest L. Reinhardt, and Mikell Hyman. "International Carbon Finance and EcoSecurities." Harvard Business School Case 208-151, June 2008. (Revised October 2008.)
- March 2023 (Revised March 2023)
- Case
Allianz Türkiye: Adapting to Climate Change
By: John D. Macomber and Fares Khrais
Allianz Turkey is a property casualty insurance company operating in a region experiencing increasing losses from natural catastrophe events related to climate change, for example hail, wildfire, and flooding. There are also substantial other natural catastrophe...
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- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
This year the theme of Climate Week is highlighting what businesses and governments can do to meet their climate targets. In that spirit, we have reached out to recent HBS alums working in the View Details
- Article
Accounting for Climate Change
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
Corporations are facing growing pressure—from investors, advocacy groups, politicians, and even business leaders themselves—to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from their operations and their supply and distribution chains. About 90% of the companies in the S&P...
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Keywords:
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation;
Social Accounting;
E-liabilities;
Business And The Environment;
Climate Change;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability
Kaplan, Robert S., and Karthik Ramanna. "Accounting for Climate Change." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 6 (November–December 2021): 120–131.
- February 2020 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
Australia: Commodities, Competitiveness, Climate and China
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Laura Alfaro
For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms—inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit, and growing dependence on China. Between 1996 and 2007, however, Australia had most of these issues under control...
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Commodities;
Competitiveness;
Carbon Tax;
Environment;
Capital Flows;
Current Account;
Mining;
Economy;
Problems and Challenges;
Climate Change;
Taxation;
Competition;
Financial Condition;
Government and Politics;
Inflation and Deflation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Australia
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Laura Alfaro. "Australia: Commodities, Competitiveness, Climate and China." Harvard Business School Case 720-028, February 2020. (Revised August 2021.)
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
This year the theme of Climate Week is highlighting what businesses and governments can do to meet their climate targets. In that spirit, we have reached out to recent alums working in the View Details
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Energy / Cleantech
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
This year the theme of Climate Week is highlighting what businesses and governments can do to meet their climate targets. In that spirit, we have reached out to recent alums working in the View Details