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Bruce Usher
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Impact America

How should Impact America Fund, a prominent early-stage socially-conscious investment think about its ongoing strategy after initial fundraising success?

  • Topics on: Behavioral Economics, Climate Sustainability, Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Social Impact and Sustainability
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ERB Institute
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ERB Toolboxes, Impact Assessment

Each of our Erb Institute toolboxes is designed to help you better implement decision-making strategies for sustainability at your company. These toolboxes cover a wide variety of topics and are routinely updated to keep up with changing innovations and trends.

  • Topics on: Climate Finance, Climate Investing, Climate Sustainability, Climate Tech

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ERB Institute
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ERB Toolboxes, Materiality Assessment

Each of our Erb Institute toolboxes is designed to help you better implement decision-making strategies for sustainability at your company. These toolboxes cover a wide variety of topics and are routinely updated to keep up with changing innovations and trends.

  • Topics on: Climate Finance, Climate Investing, Climate Sustainability, Climate Tech

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Open CC
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Marketplace Simulations: Conscious Capitalism – Bikes (Play against the computer)

This is the play against the computer version of Conscious Capitalism. For the play against classmates version, see https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/MP0015-HTM-ENG. Now available in English, Portuguese, and Spanish.

The goal of the Conscious Capitalism® Bikes simulation is to develop conscious leaders that build sustainable businesses that benefit all stakeholders. Target Course: Capstone strategy, management, and entrepreneurship for undergraduates and graduates. Students are challenged to operate a conscious business in contrast to the traditional profit-maximizing paradigm. They deal with ethical, environmental, and sustainability issues in addition to the usual management challenges of running a business. It is fun, realistic, relevant, and spirited. Conscious Capitalism® Bikes is a collaborative effort between Conscious Capitalism, Inc and the makers of Marketplace simulations. Game Scenario: Student teams start up an international bicycle company. Two innovative technologies, an economical form of carbon fiber and advanced 3D printers, make it possible to build carbon fiber bikes of any size and shape. The new carbon fiber bikes are still pricey, but more affordable than current models. Will buyers pay the premium for a light weight, really cool, carbon fiber bike tailored to their needs? There is also a new mindset emerging in global commerce, Conscious Capitalism. Will the students take on an expanded goal to become a profitable, conscious business that aligns and harmonizes the interests of employees, customers, suppliers, the community, and shareholders? Instructor Involvement: Instructor/student interaction is encouraged. Students are highly receptive to coaching, targeted lectures, and exercises that enhance their business skills. Student work is online, self-guided with an intuitive interface, built-in instructions, help files, and helpful warnings. There are 6 decision rounds of 2 to 3 hours. Designed for small to medium classes, team or individual play. This product was designed and developed to comply with WCAG 2.0 AA standards.

  • Topics on: Climate Finance

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Greg Niehaus
  • Course Syllabi

Climate Change Risk Management, Insurance, and Finance

After providing background on climate change risk and how it is modeled, the course covers important risk management and financial topics, such as the appropriate discount rate for valuing expected climate damages, potential impediments to private market incentives for adaption, mitigation, insurance, and financing of innovation to reduce GHG emissions. Public policy responses are then discussed. The last third of the course will focus on the impact of climate change risk on insurance and securities markets. The course is designed for Risk Management and Insurance Majors and Finance Majors who are interested in applying risk management and financial concepts and tools to issues raised by climate change.

  • Topics on: Climate Finance, Climate Investing, Climate Policy, Decision, Risk, and Operations

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Frederic SAMAMA
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Capital Market Mobilization for Mitigating Climate Change and Biodiversity Loss

Climate change and biodiversity loss are existential threats to the planet, our own health and well-being, and the global economy. The course will identify several key players and leverage points in the capital market and elaborate on whether and how a “systems change” could be achieved to tackle these urgent challenges. In addition to governments and NGOs, the mobilization of capital markets plays a pivotal role. To mobilize capital markets, a thorough understanding of capital markets as well as the mechanisms and obstacles at work is required, as well as innovative solutions that overcome these obstacles. This course will provide a deep dive into several financial innovations that aim to overcome these obstacles and help mobilize capital markets to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss at the system level. In this course, students will learn to think at the system-level, to understand the opportunities and challenges faced in mobilizing capital markets, and to assess concrete obstacles and whether and how financial innovations can bring scalable solutions for the benefit of society.

  • Topics on: Climate Finance, Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Decision, Risk, and Operations

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Bruce Usher
  • Case Study

Keystone Solar

What factors should an alternate energy company consider when deciding whether to operate a project once it has been built?

  • Topics on: Climate Finance, Climate Sustainability, Operations, Social Impact and Sustainability
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HBS Cases
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Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa

In July 2021, Sunil Lalvani, founder and CEO of Project Maji, a non-profit social enterprise headquartered in Dubai that had already provided sustainable, clean water solutions to 80,000 people living in rural communities across Ghana and Kenya, was facing an important decision.

  • Topics on: Climate Finance, Climate Sustainability, Corporate Sustainability Strategy
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Gernot Wagner
  • Course Syllabi

Climate Policy

Climate change is the world’s most perfect public policy problem: it’s more global, more long-term, more uncertain, and more irreversible than most others. It stands alone in the combination of all four. That also turns it into the world’s most perfect global externality problem: the benefits of fossil-fuel use are internalized, the costs largely externalized.

And while misguided market forces are the root cause of climate change, guiding them in the right direction is fundamental to the solution. In this course we explore the fast-changing global climate policy landscape shaping business. We explore the economic principles at work, analyze individual corporate and finance efforts to lead, dive into the regulatory environments around the world, and look to how the clean-energy race creates unique challenges and opportunities.

  • Topics on: Climate Policy, Climate Sustainability

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Gernot Wagner
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Business school teaching case study: capture or cut carbon to make steel greener?

Iron ore + coal = iron + carbon dioxide. This chemical reaction, known long before the invention of the periodic table, is a key part of the steelmaking process and has helped build the modern world. But every tonne of iron generates more than two tonnes of CO₂, giving the iron and steel sector outsize importance in addressing climate change: it is responsible for one-tenth of global annual greenhouse gas emissions.

Greener methods are helping, such as recycling steel and producing iron in furnaces powered by natural gas, a somewhat cleaner fossil fuel than coal. Combined, they offer ways to reduce carbon emissions by as much as 70 per cent. These methods account for nearly a third of global steel production, with the remainder from coal-powered furnaces.

  • Topics on: Climate Finance, Decarbonization, Energy
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Favio Farinella
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Public International Law and Regional Integration

We have 2 units out of 16 that make up the Programme of the subject. We teach international environmental cases, the evolution of legal protection from isolated species to the concept of sustainable development; the relation between environment and economy and the main international instruments that intend to protect the environment, both general and thematic.

  • Topics on: Climate Sustainability

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