Business & Environment

The 2nd annual Green Carpet Awards took place on Monday April 11th.

This university-wide event is intended to recognize the sustainably efforts made by faculty, staff and students. Individual winners from HBS include Stephen Coughlin, Edgar Ventura, Lauren Gilbert and Rebecca Westerling. The HBS Executive Education Occupant Engagement program was one of seven group projects to win an award. This video was featured at the Green Carpet Awards and includes five Harvard professors speaking about climate change: You Tube Video

Class of 1959 Chapel Earns University's First LEED Ebom Gold Certification

Over the course of two years, a number of energy conservation measures and alterations to the building's preventive maintenance and operational procedures were implemented culminating in LEED Gold certification. Since the process began, the Chapel has reduced its energy consumption by 49%.

HBS Receives City of Boston Green Business Award

HBS Operations has received a 2010 City of Boston Green Business Award in recognition of the numerous green technologies used at Shad Hall, the School's fitness and recreation facility and its showcase for sustainability. Energy-saving initiatives at Shad include a living green roof that required 64 cubic yards of growing medium spread over 5,000 square feet and planted with 9,000 perennials, photovoltaic panels, a cogeneration unit, and a full lighting retrofit.

Green Roof Installed on Shad Hall

What's a green roof? Think garden in the sky. In the case of Shad, the garden covers 5,200 square feet requiring 64 cubic yards of "dirt" spread to a depth of three and a half inches. The project underscores HBS's commitment to doing its part to help the University meet its ambitious goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent from 2006 levels by 2016. With completion of the living roof project, Shad has become the School's showpiece for sustainability.

Turbines Up and Spinning

Harvard Real Estate Services, in conjunction with Harvard Parking Services, has placed two 10 kW wind turbines atop the Soldiers Field Park Garage. After almost two years in planning stages, the structures were at last erected and set spinning on a bright day in September, 2009. View the project
fact sheet for more information.

Introducing the Green Corps

With 6 MBA student representatives on campus, their mission is to promote sustainable living through peer-to-peer education that encourages energy and water conservation, and recycling and waste reduction through activities and information sharing in each dorm and common area.