Sustainability

With wind and solar cheaper and more prevalent, political willpower is what’s needed now to clean up the power grid, says climate activist Bill McKibben.

Reinvention, regulations, and the rise of green energy were highlights of the annual MIT Platform Strategy Summit.

For PanAgora’s chief investment officer, mining new data sources is central to an ESG investment strategy.

Kara Penn, MBA ’07, applies insights from ‘smart mistakes’ to her organizational work at Mission Spark, Hustle Fund, and The Listening Challenge.

From gun safety to voting rights to climate action, CEOs from Levi Strauss and Unilever describe how they decide which social issues to back, and why.

With Browning the Green Space, Kerry Bowie deploys a passion for streamlined efficiency to promote equity and inclusion in clean energy.

Institutional investors like Goldman Sachs and Citigroup have pledged to invest in projects that tackle the climate crisis. Here’s how they’re doing it — and where challenges remain.

Research topics include analyzing firm behavior, data-driven sequential decision-making, inequality and worker power, and renewable energy integration.

Addressing climate change means matching data with targeted action. Tracking the right metrics, and using them the right way, is essential.

To jump-start sustainable investing, make sure investor goals are aligned, refresh outdated mental models, and standardize how impact is ranked and measured.