As an MBA student at HBS, you will prepare yourself for leadership in a rapidly changing world in which natural resources are increasingly scarce and the threat of climate change ever more urgent.
Shareholder Activism and Firms' Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks
- OCTOBER 2021
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- Strategic Management Journal
This paper examines whether—in the absence of mandated disclosure requirements—shareholder activism can elicit greater disclosure of firms’ exposure to climate change risks. We find that environmental shareholder activism increases the voluntary disclosure of climate change risks, especially if initiated by institutional investors, and even more so if initiated by long-term institutional investors. We also find that companies that voluntarily disclose climate change risks following environmental shareholder activism achieve a higher valuation post disclosure, suggesting that investors value transparency with respect to firms’ exposure to climate change risks.
Making a Marketplace for Captured Carbon: Steve Oldham, Carbon Engineering
- 20 MAY 2021
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- Climate Rising
Many of the innovators we’ve spoken with this season are launching technologies or
business models that produce less carbon than status quo approaches – leather made
from mushrooms instead of cows, for example, and vehicles that run on electricity
instead of fossil fuels. Other guests are finding new ways to finance those new technologies
or business models. In this episode, we meet Steve Oldham, the CEO of Carbon Engineering,
who is tackling climate change from a different angle – by developing a technology
that captures carbon already in the air. The potential benefits of this approach are
huge, but the challenges are at this point significant.
Many of the innovators we’ve spoken with this season are launching technologies or
business models that produce less carbon than status quo approaches – leather made
from mushrooms instead of cows, for example, and vehicles that run on electricity
instead of fossil fuels. Other guests are finding new ways to finance those new technologies
or business models. In this episode, we meet Steve Oldham, the CEO of Carbon Engineering,
who is tackling climate change from a different angle – by developing a technology
that captures carbon already in the air. The potential benefits of this approach are
huge, but the challenges are at this point significant.
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Vanguard Companies Tap Their Firm’s Collective Intelligence to Achieve Social Impact and Financial Success: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Re: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 27 Aug 2021
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- Economic Times