Climate change

Extra ventilation often means using more energy - but it doesn't have to.

Why would a new Ceres report give low scores to Whole Foods, one of the nation’s largest purchasers of renewable energy, for the way it is responding to the challenge of climate change? Precisely for the word that Whole Foods uses to describe itself: “whole.” Many of the company’s actions on climate change are laudable, […]

Deconstructing the myth that infinite economic growth could ever be truly sustainable.

(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future. The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, and Scott Snook.) Earlier this year, at the Economist […]

While Tesla and others focused on bigger batteries and faster charging, Nio invested in customer experience, infrastructure, and leasing programs.

It's increasingly strange to have to say this, but pollution and global warming are bad for the economy.

Four strategies to drive real progress.

It should be.

The hope that an entrepreneurial industry can help reverse global warming misses one critical point: Innovation takes time. Lots of time.

An analysis of five major Australian corporations over a 10-year period.

The good, the bad, and the surprising from a new report.

A case study of Japanese electronics giant Hitachi reveals lessons for companies that want to decarbonize their supply chains.

They’re too self-interested.

Executives need guidance about managing their organizations' engagement with societal issues-including hot-button topics such as gender, climate, and...

What companies can do now to address poor air quality and other health concerns of climate-related disasters.

And any big company needs to take a hard look at its assets.

An E-liability project helped raise climate awareness and showed that small and medium-sized companies can benefit from using this methodology.

It’s hard to call yourself a green company if your cash assets are underwriting global warming.

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The mood outside the formal negotiations in Copenhagen — among the tens of thousands of business leaders, entrepreneurs, NGO representatives, and clean tech curiosity-seekers in town — has been overwhelmingly optimistic, celebratory even. But the moment talk turns to the latest news emanating from the Bella Center (where the actual negotiations are taking place), the […]