Rebecca Henderson, Harvard Business School
Rebecca Henderson, Harvard Business School
Business and the Public Sector - II. Diagnosis - The Environment
Business and the Public Sector - II. Diagnosis - The Environment
This week’s seminar will focus on the environmental issues we face and will feature Professor Jody Freeman of the Harvard Law School. Jody is a leading scholar of administrative and environmental law and the founding director of the Harvard Law School Environmental Law and Policy Program. She served in the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in 2009-10 and, amongst a variety of achievements, led the Obama Administration's landmark fuel-efficiency standards. After leaving the administration, Freeman served as an independent consultant to the President's bipartisan Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
II. Diagnosis: Unpacking the relationship between the private sector, institutional structures and the broader social and political context
The Environment
Moderator: Rebecca Henderson (HBS)
Speaker: Jody Freeman (HLS)
Discussant: Michael Young (FAS)
Pre-reading:
"The Obama Administration’s National Auto Policy: Lessons from the 'Car Deal',” By Jody Freeman 35 HARV. ENVTL. L. REV. 343 (2011).
"Powering the planet," MRS Bulletin, Vol 32, October 2007 Nathan Lewis.
“Private Environmental Governance," Michael Vandenberg, Cornell Law Review, Vol 99, 2013.