Faculty & Research - Business & Environment

March 2021
Case

Cedar Environmental: Innovation vs. Corruption in Lebanon?

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Youssef Abdel Aal

The case follows Ziad Abi Chaker, founder and CEO of Cedar Environmental, an environmental engineering company in Lebanon, as he weighs his options for how to grow the company despite facing barriers to growth, most notably the prevalent public corruption in his...

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

by Danielle Kost

                                       We asked experts from the HBS Business and Environment Initiative how the coronavirus crisis might change the way companies think about sustainability.

June 2013 (Revised September 2016)
Teaching Material

Governance and Sustainability at Nike (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Nien-he Hsieh and Lara Adamsons

Two members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate responsibility committee of Nike's board of directors. Set in 2012, the case traces the evolution of Nike's approach to environmental and social...