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As a lifelong member of the HBS community, you have access to insights, training, expertise, and support from faculty and fellow alumni that will help you navigate opportunities and challenges throughout your life and journey.

Balancing Profitability and Social Accountability

Professors Debora Spar and George Serafeim discuss ways to develop an action plan to drive and measure performance improvement on key environmental and social issues.

Big Ideas from Klarman Hall

Watch recent videos featuring HBS faculty members, alumni, and other subject experts addressing timely topics on business and society, recorded live in Klarman Hall. Includes presentations from the 2022 Fall Reunions and other events.

Career Coaching for You, for Free

An HBS career coach can guide your career development and job search process through six free coaching sessions per year, including self-assessment, interviewing prep, and offer negotiation tips.

Keep Learning with Alumni Virtual Programs

Expand your knowledge and skills with online programs led by HBS faculty and other subject experts. View videos of recent sessions from Alumni Programs, HBS Clubs, HBS Initiatives, and other partners.

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19 Jul 2023
Harvard Business Review

How to Effectively Market Green Products

A study involving nine leading brands reveals the messaging that resonates and boosts market share.

19 Jul 2023
HBS Climate Rising Podcast

Managing Electricity to Meet Net Zero Targets

How companies can decarbonize their electricity when pursuing net zero climate goals, from increased efficiency to electrification to generating their own carbon-free electricity.

Re: Michael W. Toffel (Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management)

13 Jun 2023
Harvard Business Review

A Game Plan for Funding Carbon Offsets

How perpetual bonds can make nature-based offsets a realistic strategy for dealing with climate change.

Re: Robert S. Kaplan (Senior Fellow Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus)

19 May 2023
HBS Business & Environment Initiative

Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change

Where to find rays of sunshine amid the gloomy news about our planet.

11 Apr 2023
HBS Cold Call Podcast

A Rose by Any Other Name: Supply Chains and Carbon Emissions in the Flower Industry

Sian Flowers ships its products by ocean to save money and energy, but is a flower that travels halfway around the world truly a “low-carbon rose”?

Re: Willy C. Shih (Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration); Michael W. Toffel (Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management)

16 Mar 2023
BiGS - HBS Business and Global Society Institute

Collaborating for Climate

Professor Peter Tufano discusses why collaboration is necessary to combat climate change.

Re: Peter Tufano (Baker Foundation Professor)

13 Feb 2023
HBS Working Knowledge

Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

More companies than ever use ESG reports to showcase their social consciousness. But are these disclosures meaningful or just marketing?

Re: Ethan C. Rouen (Terrie F. and Bradley M. Bloom Associate Professor of Business Administration)

14 Dec 2022
HBS Climate Rising Podcast

Nature-based Carbon Removal: DroneSeed’s Reforestation Model

Grant Canary, CEO of DroneSeed, on how his startup has developed a business model to address both climate and financial risk.

Re: Michael W. Toffel (Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management)

13 Dec 2022
HBS Alumni Programs

Balancing Profitability and Social Accountability

Professors Debora Spar and George Serafeim discuss ways to develop an action plan to drive and measure performance improvement on key environmental and social issues.

Re: George Serafeim (Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration); Debora L. Spar (Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean, Business in Global Society Unit Head, General Management)

01 Dec 2022
HBS Alumni Bulletin

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Institute to amplify the work of the Business and Environment Initiative

Re: Michael W. Toffel (Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management); George Serafeim (Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration); Peter Tufano (Baker Foundation Professor); Rebecca M. Henderson (John and Natty McArthur University Professor); Shirley Lu (Assistant Professor of Business Administration); By: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 2022
HBS Alumni Bulletin

Contributing to a Better Future

HBS institute furthers the study of business’s role in confronting societal challenges

Re: Drew Keller (MBA 2022); Debora L. Spar (Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean, Business in Global Society Unit Head, General Management); By: April White

16 Nov 2022
HBS Climate Rising Podcast

US DOE’s Jigar Shah & the State of Carbon Removal

Director of the Loans Program Office shares some of the technical and finance challenges and opportunities of carbon removal solutions.

Re: Michael W. Toffel (Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management)

09 Nov 2022
Harvard Business Review

From Droughts to Floods, Water Risk Is an Urgent Business Issue

New regulations are forcing companies to confront the issue.

02 Nov 2022
HBS Climate Rising Podcast

McKinsey's Climate Consulting

How the company works with its clients to address climate risk and find opportunities through its pillars of net-zero strategy, green business building, decarbonization transformation, net-zero financial institutions, and sustainable investing.

Re: Michael W. Toffel (Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management)

26 Oct 2022
Harvard Business Review

Climate Risk Is Growing. Is Your Company Prepared?

Four steps for protecting your property - prioritize, transfer, avoid, or minimize - before the next “big one” hits.

Re: John D. Macomber (Senior Lecturer of Business Administration)

16 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

As Climate Risk Grows, So Will Costs for Small Businesses

Lessons in risk management based on research on Texas businesses affected by Hurricane Harvey.

11 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

Why Companies Aren't Living Up to Their Climate Pledges

With many organizations struggling to deliver on their climate commitments, here are five remedies to get back on track.

10 Aug 2022
HBS Climate Rising Podcast

How Ceres Supports Corporate Boards to Accelerate Climate Action

Learn how Ceres works with corporate boards to facilitate systemic change in private sector climate action, including why boards are a critical part of the equation.

Re: Michael W. Toffel (Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management)

02 Aug 2022
HBS Working Knowledge

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

Businesses don't need to sacrifice the bottom line to support the planet. In the book Purpose and Profit, Professor George Serafeim offers a roadmap for companies ready to embrace their role as societal change agents.

Re: George Serafeim (Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration)

01 Aug 2022
Harvard Business Review

It’s Time to Invest in Climate Adaptation

We need measures to help people, animals, and plants survive the climate crisis.