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- September 2021
- Management Science
Innovation in the 21st Century: Architectural Change, Purpose, and the Challenges of Our Time
| Understanding the process of innovation has been a central concern of management researchers, but despite this progress, there remains much that we do not understand. Deepening our knowledge is critically important given the enormous environmental and social challenges...
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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
| 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...
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- 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.
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- 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...
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- 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.
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- 2020
- Book
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
| 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....
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- 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...
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- 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.
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- January 2019 (Revised February 2020)
- Case
Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World? Inside GPIF's Embrace of ESG
| 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...
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- April 2017
- Cases with Notes
CLP: Powering Asia
By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and David Freiberg
| Teaching Note for HBS No. 115-038.
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- November 11, 2016
- Harvard Business Review (website)
The Fortune 500 Can't Go Along with a Rollback on Climate Policy
- April 2016 (Revised April 2017)
- Case
Reimagining Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Change
By: Rebecca Henderson, Tony L. He and Brian Tomlinson
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