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HBS Cases
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Graphic Packaging: Project Cowboy (A)

In July 2019, Graphic Packaging CEO Michael Doss was proposing a $600 million investment in a new machine to produce coated recycled board (CRB), a type of paper packaging used for consumer products (cups, cereal boxes, beverage boxes, etc.) that utilized recycled paper as an input.

  • Topics on: Climate Sustainability, Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Social Impact and Sustainability
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Andrew Isaacs
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Generation Z: Does Climate Concern Match Knowledge?

In Fall 2020, researchers tested how much graduate students at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business understood about climate change science. 144 MBA students took a 4-minute ‘pop quiz’ with eight short questions gauging their general familiarity with climate change. While the quiz was not comprehensive, the results indicated students’ basic knowledge was limited. The implications were stark: if well-educated students at an elite institution were uninformed about the causes of climate change, how effectively could they address climate-related issues as future leaders? Why was there a disconnect between caring about the environment and lacking knowledge of how it was threatened?

  • Topics on: Climate Sustainability
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ERB Institute
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Range Resources: A Commitment to Transparency

John Pinkerton, CEO of natural gas company Range Resources, must consider supporting or condemning a new bill passed by Congress that could add more regulations to one of Range’s most effective mining methods: fracking…

  • Topics on: Climate Sustainability, Climate Tech, Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Social Impact and Sustainability, Statistics
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Sustainability at Millipore

This case describes Millipore Corporation’s approach to becoming a more environmentally sustainable company. As he prepared for his quarterly meeting with the CEO, the Director of Sustainability needed to develop positions on several issues. Tactically,…
  • Topics on: Climate Investing, Climate Tech, Corporate Sustainability Strategy, Statistics
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1366 Technologies

Just months after declaring their intent to become a solar cell equipment supplier, van Mierlo and Sachs were again revisiting the issue of what the company should be. Becoming a successful solar cell manufacturer would potentially be much more lucrative…
  • Topics on: Business Analytics, Climate Justice, Climate Tech, Corporate Sustainability Strategy
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Jon Freedman
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The Business and Governance of Water

Water is the lifeblood of business. Virtually every business imaginable — everything from oil refining to semiconductor manufacturing to cloud computing — requires copious supplies of fresh water. However, there is a fixed amount of water on earth, and in any given place, the supply, demand, and quality of freshwater can change. As climate change makes many parts of the world hotter and drier, it is increasingly important for today’s business leaders to be able to understand water challenges and to implement solutions that will enable businesses to thrive in the future. In addition to understanding and navigating water quality and quantity challenges, business leaders must operate in a highly regulated environment.

Water is regulated at the multinational, national, regional, state and local levels, and it’s important to understand who the key external stakeholders are and how to engage with them in productive ways. THE BUSINESS AND GOVERNANCE OF WATER – THE WHARTON SCHOOL 2 Finally, future business leaders should learn about the growth opportunities in the global water sector. Water is an $800 billion global industry whose value chain includes operating water utilities, engineering firms, technology companies, and financial services firms.

  • Topics on: Climate Justice, Climate Sustainability, Corporate Sustainability Strategy

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Jason Jay
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En-ROADS Climate simulation tool

The En-ROADS Climate Solutions Simulator is a fast, powerful climate solutions scenario tool for understanding how we can achieve our climate goals through changes in energy, land use, consumption, agriculture, and other policies. The simulator focuses on how changes in global GDP, energy efficiency, technological innovation, and carbon price influence carbon emissions, global temperature, and other factors. It is designed to provide a synthesis of the best available science on climate solutions and put it at the fingertips of groups in policy workshops and roleplaying games. These experiences enable people to explore the long-term climate impacts of global policy and investment decisions.

En-ROADS is being developed by Climate Interactive, Ventana Systems, UML Climate Change Initiative, and MIT Sloan.

  • Topics on: Climate Justice, Climate Policy, Climate Science, Climate Sustainability, Decarbonization, Energy, Environmental Economics, Mitigation, Net Zero, Net Zero Strategies

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Gernot Wagner
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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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HBS Cases
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Mexico City Water Shortage

In this case, a property company, a water privatizer, and municipal engineers explore the causes of and solutions to a severe water shortage in Mexico City, a great global capital. The protagonist is a real estate investor doing due diligence on the magnitude of the…
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Bangladesh: Into the Maelstrom

In the fall of 2018, Rohima Begum considered her options as the small island, or “char,” on which her family’s house rested slowly but inescapably eroded into the mighty Brahmaputra River in northern Bangladesh. The country, once unceremoniously dubbed…
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Pedro Matos
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ESG Investing

This course explores the growth of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investing with a particular focus on the role of public capital markets in helping to address sustainable development goals (https://sdgs.un.org/goals). ESG is increasingly mainstream – for example, the largest global network of investors, the UN-sponsored Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) has now over 3,000 signatories managing with over US$100 trillion in assets (https://www.unpri.org/about-us/about-the-pri). However, there is an active debate regarding every aspect (definitions, measurement, regulation, etc.) with claims of “greenwashing” and also a backlash against ESG which strengthens the need for a critical and evidence-based exploration of the field. This course covers some of the major ESG investing approaches (screening, thematic, integration and engagement) in capital markets and takes a global perspective. It includes a special module on Climate Finance that covers the physical, transition and regulatory risks of climate change and the need to finance a shift to a net-zero carbon economy. A few guest speakers will provide additional ideas and tools to interpret the case studies and enrich the class discussion.

Course Objectives:

  • Explore the evolving ESG investing landscape both from the point of view of investors choosing investments and firms responding to investor activities
  • Understand how to incorporate ESG factors into investment decisions and analyze the different approaches across a range of asset classes.
  • Gain insights into climate risk and examine climate-focused investing solutions and their effectiveness in combating climate change.
  • Topics on: Climate Finance, Climate Investing, ESG

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