Business & Environment
Business & Environment
The vital connection between the natural environment and the business world has long been a central focus of our research at HBS – from Richard Vietor’s study of business-government relations in U.S. energy policy in the 1980’s to Michael Porter’s new concept of the relationship between the environment and competition in the 1990’s. Today, our faculty members focus on corporate environmental strategy, operations and reporting; sustainable cities and infrastructure; the role of government and environmental policy; clean energy generation and demand-side energy efficiency; and the effective management of natural resources essential to human prosperity.
Initiatives & Projects
The Business & Environment Initiative and the Social Enterprise Initiative deepen business leaders’ understanding of today’s environmental challenges and assist them in developing effective solutions.
Business & Environment Social EnterpriseRecent Publications
ReMo Energy: Sizing Up Investors
- September 2023 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Diamond Standard
- September 2023 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Stock Price Reactions to ESG News: The Role of ESG Ratings and Disagreement
- Article |
- Review of Accounting Studies
Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (A)
- August 2023 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Plug Power (A)
- August 2023 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
If 3 Was 9
- 2023 |
- Other Unpublished Work |
- Faculty Research
Residential Battery Storage - Reshaping The Way We Do Electricity
- 2023 |
- Working Paper |
- Faculty Research
Vytal: Packaging-as-a-Service
- July 2023 |
- Case |
- Faculty Research
Why Management Research Needs a Radical Rethink
- July 5, 2023 |
- Editorial |
- Financial Times
Accounting for Carbon Offsets
- July–August 2023 |
- Article |
- Harvard Business Review
This article presents an accounting framework based on five core principles. The first two define what can and cannot be counted as an offset and what may or may not be traded. The remaining principles set out basic accounting guidelines for offsets. Together they provide the foundation for a well-functioning market that accelerates innovation and deployment of improved offsetting technologies, leading to atmospheric decarbonization.