Browsing HBS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "environmental sustainability"
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BYOB: How Bringing Your Own Shopping Bags Leads to Treating Yourself, and the Environment
(2015)As concerns about pollution and climate change have become more central in public discourse, shopping with reusable grocery bags has been strongly promoted as environmentally and socially conscious. In parallel, firms have ... -
Engaging Supply Chains in Climate Change
(2013)Suppliers are increasingly being asked to share information about their vulnerability to climate change and their strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Their responses vary widely. We theorize and empirically ... -
Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building Policies in California
(Elsevier, 2014)We study how government green procurement policies influence private-sector demand for similar products. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on ... -
The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance
(INFORMS, 2014)We investigate the effect of corporate sustainability on organizational processes and performance. Using a matched sample of 180 U.S. companies, we find that corporations that voluntarily adopted sustainability policies ... -
Sustainable Operations Management: An Enduring Stream or a Passing Fancy?
(2013)Paul Kleindorfer was among the first to weigh in on and nurture the stream of Sustainable Operations Management. The thoughts laid out here are based on conversations we had with Paul relating to the drivers underlying ... -
Technology Choice and Capacity Portfolios under Emissions Regulation
(2016)We study the impact of emissions tax and emissions cap-and-trade regulation on a firm's technology choice and capacity decisions. We show that emissions price uncertainty under cap-and-trade results in greater expected ...