Harvard Business School: Integrating sustainability throughout the curriculum
This case study has been created from the Finance for the Future Awards. This entry was a finalist in the ‘Driving change through education, training and academia’ category.
At Harvard Business School (HBS), the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) and the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) bring environmental and social factors into finance and business education. These initiatives have built networks and communities of practice that raise the profile of sustainability and uphold it as a core business issue. The cross-disciplinary communities of practice attract faculty who are working on topics related to environmental sustainability and social change. This increases innovative research, which is then both published and embedded into courses.
‘The introduction of sustainability into core business school syllabuses, and the role the school plays in originating data, builds legitimacy in the academic sphere on issues such as climate change.’
Finance for the Future Awards judges