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      • 2025
      • Working Paper

      An Empirical Examination of Business Climate Alliances: Effective and/or Harmful?

      By: Matteo Gasparini and Peter Tufano
      This research studies business alliances that seek to address climate change, offering empirical evidence to address claims advanced by alliance supporters and critics. We study eleven major alliances mostly focused on financial services firms and 424 major... View Details
      Keywords: Antitrust; Climate Change; Financial Institutions; Competition; Network Effects; Alliances
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      Gasparini, Matteo, and Peter Tufano. "An Empirical Examination of Business Climate Alliances: Effective and/or Harmful?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-060, May 2025.
      • April 2025
      • Article

      Corporate Ownership and ESG Performance

      By: Belen Villalonga, Peter Tufano and Boya Wang
      Using a sample of 3083 firms from 62 countries over 18 years, we analyze how the structure and identity of firms' material owners influence their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance. We find that firms with founding families or other individual... View Details
      Keywords: ESG; CSR; Family Firms; Social Responsibility; Environment; Sustainability; Ownership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Governance; Environmental Sustainability
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      Villalonga, Belen, Peter Tufano, and Boya Wang. "Corporate Ownership and ESG Performance." Journal of Corporate Finance 91 (April 2025).
      • December 2024
      • Supplement

      Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change (B)

      By: George Serafeim, Debora L. Spar, Peter Tufano, Hugo Etchegoyhen and Emilie Billaud
      The (B) case explores Northvolt’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on November 21, 2024, highlighting the company’s struggles to scale operations amid a global EV market slowdown and internal production challenges. While the (A) case detailed Northvolt’s ambitious... View Details
      Keywords: Batteries; Electric Vehicles; Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Energy; Green Technology; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Technological Innovation; Risk Management; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transportation; Green Technology Industry; Europe; Sweden
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      Serafeim, George, Debora L. Spar, Peter Tufano, Hugo Etchegoyhen, and Emilie Billaud. "Northvolt: Building Batteries to Fight Climate Change (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 325-083, December 2024.
      • October 2024
      • Case

      NextGen CDR Facility: From Davos to Details

      By: Peter Tufano, Emily A. Chien and Karina Val
      Next Gen CDR is a startup that pools corporate commitments to purchase Tech CDR, which promises to permanently remove and store carbon from the atmosphere to combat climate change. A partnership between South Pole and Mitsubishi Corp., Next Gen has secured initial... View Details
      Keywords: Climate Change; Partners and Partnerships; Corporate Governance; Investment; Agreements and Arrangements
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      Tufano, Peter, Emily A. Chien, and Karina Val. "NextGen CDR Facility: From Davos to Details." Harvard Business School Case 325-056, October 2024.
      • Fall 2024
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      The Case for Climate Alliances

      By: Matteo Gasparini, Knut Haanaes, Emily Tedards and Peter Tufano
      Business leaders are under pressure to address the climate crisis, but they can’t do so alone. Climate alliances can help leaders and firms be more ambitious, responsible, and effective in driving the systems change necessary to save the planet. View Details
      Keywords: Climate Change; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships
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      Gasparini, Matteo, Knut Haanaes, Emily Tedards, and Peter Tufano. "The Case for Climate Alliances." Stanford Social Innovation Review 22, no. 4 (Fall 2024): 48–57.
      • May 14, 2024
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      One Way to Help Employees Build Emergency Savings

      By: Timothy Flacke and Peter Tufano
      Intentional cooperation between two organizations — BlackRock, a major asset management firm, and national non-profit, Commonwealth — created the conditions for the nation’s largest payroll processor, multiple U.S. employers, retirement record keepers, and others to... View Details
      Keywords: Saving; Personal Finance; Income; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships
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      Flacke, Timothy, and Peter Tufano. "One Way to Help Employees Build Emergency Savings." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 14, 2024).
      • March–April 2024
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      How Companies Should Weigh in on a Controversy: A Better Approach to Stakeholder Management

      By: David M. Bersoff, Sandra J. Sucher and Peter Tufano
      Executives need guidance about managing their organizations’ engagement with societal issues—including hot-button topics such as gender, climate, and racial discrimination. Success in this realm does not mean avoiding public controversy or achieving unanimous support... View Details
      Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Social Issues; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Judgments; Management Practices and Processes
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      Bersoff, David M., Sandra J. Sucher, and Peter Tufano. "How Companies Should Weigh in on a Controversy: A Better Approach to Stakeholder Management." Harvard Business Review 102, no. 2 (March–April 2024): 108–119.
      • January 2024
      • Case

      Net Zero Insurance Alliance: An Alliance in Crisis

      By: Peter Tufano and Karina Val
      The Net Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), a UN-convened alliance of major global insurers, was formed in 2021, but by 2023 had lost over 60% of its members. While NZIA had enjoyed a rapid and productive start by setting standards for the industry and sharing best... View Details
      Keywords: Climate Change; Insurance; Standards; Alliances; Business and Government Relations; Cooperation; Insurance Industry
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      Tufano, Peter, and Karina Val. "Net Zero Insurance Alliance: An Alliance in Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 324-063, January 2024.
      • November 29, 2023
      • Article

      To Earn Trust, Climate Alliances Need to Improve Transparency

      By: Peter Tufano, Chris Thomas, Knut Haanaes, Matteo Gasparini, Robert Eyres and Christopher Chapman
      Businesses are increasingly joining together as part of climate alliances to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels. But these alliances raise antitrust issues: When competitors collaborate, it can come at the expense of customers or workers. To mitigate... View Details
      Keywords: Climate Change; Partners and Partnerships; Corporate Disclosure; Energy Sources
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      Tufano, Peter, Chris Thomas, Knut Haanaes, Matteo Gasparini, Robert Eyres, and Christopher Chapman. "To Earn Trust, Climate Alliances Need to Improve Transparency." Harvard Business Review (website) (November 29, 2023).
      • November 2023 (Revised June 2025)
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      Aviva plc: Examining Net Zero

      By: Peter Tufano, Brian Trelstad and Matteo Gasparini
      The board of Aviva Plc, one of the world’s largest insurers, must review its climate risk exposures and evaluate next steps. Risk experts at the firm have conducted a robust set of analyses prepared for its regulator, the Bank of England, simulating how various climate... View Details
      Keywords: Analysis; Climate Change; Insurance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Risk Management; Adaptation; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Europe; United Kingdom
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      Tufano, Peter, Brian Trelstad, and Matteo Gasparini. "Aviva plc: Examining Net Zero." Harvard Business School Case 324-008, November 2023. (Revised June 2025.)
      • September 2023 (Revised October 2024)
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      Forecasting Climate Risks: Aviva’s Climate Calculus

      By: Mark Egan and Peter Tufano
      In late 2021, Ben Carr, Director of Analytics and Capital Modeling at Aviva Plc (Aviva)—a leading insurer with core operations in the UK, Ireland and Canada,—was preparing for an upcoming presentation before the company's board which included its CEO, Amanda Blanc,... View Details
      Keywords: Climate Risk; Climate Finance; Forecasting; Insurance; Risk Measurement; Climate Change; Risk Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Insurance Industry; United States
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      Egan, Mark, and Peter Tufano. "Forecasting Climate Risks: Aviva’s Climate Calculus." Harvard Business School Case 224-025, September 2023. (Revised October 2024.)
      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      The Evolving Academic Field of Climate Finance

      By: Matteo Gasparini and Peter Tufano
      The urgency and the magnitude of climate change will affect every aspect of our economies, societies, and planet. The academic finance research has begun to study the financial implications of global warming, although this body of literature is small. The field has... View Details
      Keywords: Climate Finance; Finance Academia; Greenhouse Gas; Sustainable Finance; Financial Decisions; Educational Finance; Finance; Climate Change; Transition
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      Gasparini, Matteo, and Peter Tufano. "The Evolving Academic Field of Climate Finance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-057, January 2023.
      • October 17, 2022
      • Article

      When Climate Collaboration Is Treated as an Antitrust Violation

      By: Matteo Gasparini, Knut Haanaes and Peter Tufano
      Carbon emissions transcend firms and borders—they are a massive, unpriced externality. Companies across industries are increasingly waking up to the need to cooperate in the fight against climate change but the law might get in the way. Across Europe and the U.S.,... View Details
      Keywords: Climate Impact; Climate Finance; Antitrust; Anti-trust; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Law
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      Gasparini, Matteo, Knut Haanaes, and Peter Tufano. "When Climate Collaboration Is Treated as an Antitrust Violation." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 17, 2022).
      • May 2022
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      Can Gambling Increase Savings? Empirical Evidence on Prize-Linked Savings Accounts

      By: Shawn A. Cole, Benjamin Iverson and Peter Tufano
      This paper studies the adoption and impact of prize-linked savings (PLS) accounts, which offer lottery-like payouts to individual account holders in lieu of interest. Using microlevel data from a bank in South Africa, we show that PLS is attractive to a broad group of... View Details
      Keywords: Household Finance; Banking; Savings; Prize-linked Savings; Lottery; Household; Personal Finance; Saving; Banks and Banking
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      Cole, Shawn A., Benjamin Iverson, and Peter Tufano. "Can Gambling Increase Savings? Empirical Evidence on Prize-Linked Savings Accounts." Management Science 68, no. 5 (May 2022): 3282–3308.
      • 2022
      • Chapter

      Crises and Collective Purpose: Distraction or Liberation?

      By: P. Tufano
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      Tufano, P. "Crises and Collective Purpose: Distraction or Liberation?" In Business School Leadership and Crisis Exit Planning: Global Deans' Contributions on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of EFMD, edited by Eric Cornuel. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
      • February 1, 2022
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      Business Schools Must Do More to Address the Climate Crisis

      By: Concepción Galdón, Knut Haanaes, Daniel Halbheer, Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Katell Le Goulven, Mike Rosenberg, Peter Tufano and Amelia Whitelaw
      Business schools have much to contribute to the fight against climate change. They are experts in organizational transformation, performance measurement, operations, marketing, leadership, and governance. A group of eight business schools has come together to find... View Details
      Keywords: Climate Change; Business Education; Environmental Sustainability; Education Industry
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      Galdón, Concepción, Knut Haanaes, Daniel Halbheer, Jennifer Howard-Grenville, Katell Le Goulven, Mike Rosenberg, Peter Tufano, and Amelia Whitelaw. "Business Schools Must Do More to Address the Climate Crisis." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (February 1, 2022).
      • September 2021
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      Perceptions on Undertaking Regular Asymptomatic Self-testing for COVID-19 Using Lateral Flow Tests: A Qualitative Study of University Students and Staff

      By: Marta Wanat, Mary Logan, Jennifer A. Hirst, Charles Vicary, Joseph J. Lee, Rafael Perera, Irene Tracey, Gordon Duff, Peter Tufano, Thomas Fanshawe, Lazaro Mwandigha, Brian D. Nicholson, Sarah Tonkin-Crine and Richard Hobbs
      Objectives: Successful implementation of asymptomatic testing programmes using lateral flow tests (LFTs) depends on several factors, including feasibility, acceptability and how people act on test results. We aimed to examine experiences of university students... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19; Self-testing; Health Pandemics; Health Testing and Trials; Behavior
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      Wanat, Marta, Mary Logan, Jennifer A. Hirst, Charles Vicary, Joseph J. Lee, Rafael Perera, Irene Tracey, Gordon Duff, Peter Tufano, Thomas Fanshawe, Lazaro Mwandigha, Brian D. Nicholson, Sarah Tonkin-Crine, and Richard Hobbs. "Perceptions on Undertaking Regular Asymptomatic Self-testing for COVID-19 Using Lateral Flow Tests: A Qualitative Study of University Students and Staff." BMJ Open 11, no. 9 (September 2021).
      • August 13, 2021
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      New Child Tax Credit Should Be a Call to Action for Banks

      By: Bob Neuhaus, Daniel Schneider and Peter Tufano
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      Neuhaus, Bob, Daniel Schneider, and Peter Tufano. "New Child Tax Credit Should Be a Call to Action for Banks." American Banker (August 13, 2021).
      • August 2, 2021
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      Missing Voices in the Child Tax Credit Frenzy—Parents

      By: Peter Tufano and Daniel Schneider
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      Tufano, Peter, and Daniel Schneider. "Missing Voices in the Child Tax Credit Frenzy—Parents." The Hill (August 2, 2021).
      • Winter 2020
      • Article

      Training Leaders to Win Wars and Forge Peace: Lessons from History

      By: P. Tufano
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      Tufano, P. "Training Leaders to Win Wars and Forge Peace: Lessons from History." Business History Review 94, no. 4 (Winter 2020): 807–833.
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