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  • Fall 2020
  • Daedalus

Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual and the End of the World as We Know It

By: Rebecca Henderson
How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution...
  • 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.
  • May 2020
  • AEA Papers and Proceedings

Tackling Climate Change Requires Organizational Purpose

By: Rebecca Henderson and George Serafeim
Unchecked climate change presents a profound threat to economic growth and political stability but despite widespread public concern about the issue, global emissions of greenhouse gases have not declined. Indeed current “business as usual” predictions imply that...
  • 30 Apr 2020
  • Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

by Danielle Kost
Tackling one of the biggest crises of our time—climate change—requires leaders to embrace a new vision of business, argues Rebecca Henderson.
  • 2020
  • Book

Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire

By: Rebecca Henderson
Free market capitalism is one of humanity’s greatest inventions and the greatest source of prosperity the world has ever seen. But this success has been costly. Capitalism is on the verge of destroying the planet and destabilizing society as wealth rushes to the top....
  • January 2020
  • Teaching Material

Climate Change in 2020: Implications for Business

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Sophus A. Reinert and Mariana Oseguera
This note provides general information about climate change and its implications for business. Included is an overview of climate change science and a number of its impacts, including rising sea levels, changing weather patterns and extreme weather, pressure on water...
  • 06 Nov 2019
  • Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

by Rebecca Henderson
With climate change scorching the planet, business leaders have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to change the world—and make money in the process, says Rebecca Henderson.
  • January 2019 (Revised February 2020)
  • Case

Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World? Inside GPIF's Embrace of ESG

By: Rebecca Henderson, George Serafeim, Josh Lerner and Naoko Jinjo
In the fall of 2018, Hiro Mizuno, the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of GPIF, the Japanese Government Pension Fund, was reflecting on his efforts to integrate Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues into every aspect of GPIF’s portfolio. His efforts ranged...
  • April 2017
  • Cases with Notes

CLP: Powering Asia

By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and David Freiberg
Teaching Note for HBS No. 115-038.
  • November 11, 2016
  • Harvard Business Review (website)

The Fortune 500 Can't Go Along with a Rollback on Climate Policy

By: Rebecca Henderson
  • April 2016 (Revised April 2017)
  • Case

Reimagining Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Change

By: Rebecca Henderson, Tony L. He and Brian Tomlinson
  • March 2016 (Revised June 2016)
  • Case

Gotong Royong: Toward Sustainable Palm Oil

By: Rebecca Henderson, Hann-Shuin Yew and Monica Baraldi
In late 2015, Jeff Seabright, chief sustainability officer at Unilever, had to report to Unilever CEO Paul Polman on the effort to transform palm oil cultivation. Historically, palm oil was produced using unsustainable methods that included burning large tracts of...
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