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This is going to be your first Harley-Davidson! You can’t wait! For the past two years, you’ve been riding a beat-up 1981 Honda with a 750-cubic-centimeter engine that you bought for $450. All the while, you have been dreaming…
This course presents the economics of the world energy challenge { how to provide access to reliable and affordable energy while addressing adverse health, environmental, and climate impacts. Class lectures and discussions will examine the frictions among social, policy, and private objectives in energy and environmental markets. In this course, we will tackle questions such as the following: What role can businesses play in addressing climate change?
What can you do? Should governments subsidize renewable energy? If so, how should the subsidies be structured? What are the economic and policy barrier to decreasing carbon emissions and other air pollution from the transportation system, and how can they be overcome?
What are the short- and long-run impacts of Covid-19 on energy markets and the environment? How are electricity markets regulated and organized, and how do the regulatory institutions impact the transition to low-carbon electricity? Tech giants have committed nearly one billion dollars toward \permanent” carbon removal. How could we effectively spend this money?
After a successful financial turnaround during the 2008-09 recession, Ford must decide how much to invest in emerging technologies facing competitors like Tesla and LeEco. The (B) case provides an update following the dismissal of Fields and the appointment of former Steelcase CEO and Ford Smart Mobility (FSM) chair Jim Hackett as his successor. Faced with a drop of 37 percent in stock price, Hackett lays five themes to turnaround the company.
MIT OpenCourseWare is an online publication of materials from over 2,500 MIT courses, freely sharing knowledge with learners and educators around the world.
This case centers on SC Johnson’s CEO, H. Fisk Johnson, and his decision on how to move forward with Greenlist™ after the settlement of two lawsuits. SC Johnson developed the ingredient improvement process Greenlist™…
Guide developed by the U.S. NOAA Climate Program Office
This guide is intended to be used in two ways. The first is during synchronous and asynchronous training. Practitioners may use this as a workbook, marking it up with notes or filling out exercises. The second is as guidance when working with a community to implement the Steps to Resilience.
Each chapter corresponds to one of the Steps to Resilience and begins with objectives, a list of resources (such as worksheets and other guidance), roles and responsibilities for project team members, opportunities for community participation, and questions for assessing success.
Among those resources are two fully articulated examples of working through the Steps to Resilience in Charleston, SC, Louisville, KY and the fictional town of Nautilus. These examples are woven into a formal training program developed to help people learn and apply the Steps to Resilience in their own community focused planning and implementation.
The bulk of this material is presented as practical guidance rather than academic context. Supporting resources are available in two formats: (1) exercises and worksheets that are meant to be completed by practitioners, members of the planning team, or both; and (2) documented guidance, with in-depth facilitation tips, presentation templates, sources of information, collections of external resources, and job aids. Table 1 outlines all of the steps and objectives presented throughout this guide.
Given varying capacities, different pathways and levels of detail may be needed as practitioners and community members work through the Steps to Resilience. The Steps to Resilience should be applied flexibly to serve the needs of the community.
Should M&G stick with the original plan to simply act as a licensor or take a more active role in the biofuel marketplace?
This course aims to provide students with a fundamental grasp of key financial market issues concerning ESG, responsible business, and climate change. The course employs a blend of lectures, group presentations, and case studies. The curriculum is divided into two parts: Part 1 focuses on ESG, while Part 2 delves into climate change.
In Part 1, students will gain an overview of ESG, including its theories, various types of ESG risks, proposed causes and consequences of ESG/CSR, and its impact on performance. Part 2 concentrates on climate change matters, encompassing the pricing of climate change risks, the significance of carbon disclosures, and sustainable financing mechanisms like green bonds.
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.
Joe Whinney, founder and CEO of Seattle, Washington-based Theo Chocolate, has spent his entire professional career bringing sustainably harvested chocolate to developed nations. His company created the first organic,…
Climate change is not just a societal issue; it is a business issue. Tomorrow’s business leaders—today’s MBA students—need to understand the operational, financial, strategy, and leadership implications of climate impacts. This brief deck covers the why and the how of how to bring climate topics to the business school classroom—including go-to resources for finding syllabi, case studies, and interactive exercises.
How should East Light Partners, an early mover in New York State’s growing clean energy market, calculate the financial feasibility of a proposed community solar project situated in Hudson, New York?
5.S05 explores Building Sector Energy and Climate Innovations; such as technologies and services that strategically enhance building efficiency and electrification; incorporate site solar, battery storage, and electric vehicles; and are enabled to integrate with today’s increasingly renewable electric grids. Such innovations provide a foundation for a New Era for Energy Management: technology and business innovations supported by climate-centric public policies as well as a robust Green Capital market. These enable the energy management industry (over $200 billion worldwide) to rapidly grow due to: • Strong economics: with technology and price trends which are positive and dramatic. • Needed for Climate: Large scale energy management is a substantial and essential component of world carbon balance, and with no net cost (positive NPV).
Strong Demand for energy that is Digitized, Decarbonized, and Democratized: especially when market innovations make it costless (up front), riskless, effortless, and for some, a choice as to how and where their energy is produced (Prosumers). With enabling support from the instructors, materials, and assignments, class members examine and reflect on emerging technology, analytic, business, and policy innovations that help achieve today’s imperatives for a sustainable and equitable future. We then consider together strategies that may further advance Energy Management’s impact and benefits