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- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
market.” As developers, Janice and her team are packaging financing and technology know-how to execute cost and energy saving projects, using the ORC or “Organic Rankine Cycle” process. The ORC process can make major reductions in CO2...
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- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
$60 billion will be left on the table if financial institutions do not create greater efficiencies in sustainable infrastructure capital deployment. Her timing for advocating for these changes is spot-on, given this summer’s passage of the Inflation View Details
- 17 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS
Projects, internships, and fellowships. HBS’s efforts reflect Harvard-wide sustainability and climate goals Back in 2014, Harvard launched a five-year Sustainability Plan which set clear University-wide goals and priorities in five areas: View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
your company with a "quality flashlight," said Reinhardt. You may find that revisiting your many systems—design, production, delivery—will yield internal cost reductions that can be better spent on social benefits. For this...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Winslow Homer: American Passage By William R. Cross (MBA 1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux In 1860, at the age of 24, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sold Harper’s Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into boxwood blocks and transferred...
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- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
gas regulations are more likely to share greenhouse gas emissions levels and reduction targets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-026.pdf The Rich Get Richer: Enabling Conditions for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
explicit limit on carbon emissions from oil sands and a price on carbon. Suncor, which produces more than 400,000 barrels per day of bitumen and synthetic oil must reduce its emissions at the same time that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
Photo credits: Aaron Sabin; Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. This is the first episode of "Clearing the Air", a three-part series focused on the business of carbon...
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- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
legal change applied). These reductions in agency costs were followed by an increase in average leverage and a reduction in interest costs. Finally, we can estimate the welfare implications of agency costs,...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
goals are two-fold: to help reduce auto emissions and make the fleet more climate friendly, as well as to “help boost driver recruitment.” Analysts said the Domino’s announcement is a reminder that corporate fleets are a key early driver...
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- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
greenhouse gas regulations were more likely to include quantitative emissions data and reduction targets in the information they shared. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-026.pdf...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
authorities in the U.S. and the EU in formulating environmental regulations in three areas: automotive emissions for health-related (criteria) pollutants, packaging waste, and global climate change. Automotive View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
group had generated. These ranged from stabilizing the company's current carbon emissions to complete carbon neutrality. The UBS Corporate Responsibility Committee would meet early next week. Suter wondered which option he should support....
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
sector. Analyzing millions of emissions tests, we find empirical support for our hypotheses that particular product portfolios and forms of governance can mitigate moral hazard. Download the paper:...
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- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
motivating tools to achieve desirable organizational outcomes. We focus on reduction of carbon emissions as a setting in which to examine how target difficulty and monetary incentives provided to managers...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
of the contribution successful microfinance makes to the reduction of global poverty. This paper seeks to address aspects of the creation of economic value and social value in microfinance, which the author believes contains insights...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
will require governments, citizens, and firms to work collaboratively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a task that requires information on companies' emissions levels, risks, and reduction opportunities....
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
employment regulation. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50041 November 2015 Accounting Review The Effect of Target Difficulty on Target Completion: The Case of Reducing Carbon Emissions By: Ioannou,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
motorists. We started to talk with states and with federal officials. We generated a plan to take 800,000 to a million trucks off the highway. Ultimately, the project saved half a billion dollars in trucking costs, half a billion dollars in congestion costs, a million...
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