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Podcast: Introducing Insight Unpacked, Season 3

Can We Still Build a Green Economy?

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Introducing Insight Unpacked Season 3: Can We Still Build a Green Economy?

In the last decade, we’ve seen powerful people and organizations take on the issue of climate change—making big pledges to reduce their carbon emissions by adapting their fleets, retrofitting their offices, or going paperless.

And yet global emissions are still at or near record highs. So what gives?

Welcome to Insight Unpacked—the series where our faculty break down a complex business topic. In this five-episode season, we’re asking, if climate change is already reshaping our environment, is there anything that companies, investors, policymakers, technologists, and ordinary people can do to turn things around? And are we even capable of doing that?

There’s reason for hope. But our work is certainly cut out for us.

Featured Faculty

Meghan Busse

Associate Professor of Strategy

Brayden King

Max McGraw Chair in Management and the Environment; Professor of Management & Organizations; Senior Associate Dean of Strategy and Academics

Klaus Weber

Thomas G. Ayers Chair in Energy Resource Management; Professor of Management & Organizations; Director of the Social Impact and Sustainability Program

Aaron Yoon

Associate Professor of Accounting & Information Management

David Chen

Adjunct Professor of Finance; Faculty Lead of Impact Investing

David A. Besanko

IBM Professor of Regulation & Competitive Practices

Adam Waytz

Morris and Alice Kaplan Professor of Ethics & Decision in Management; Professor of Management and Organizations; Professor of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences (Courtesy)

Matthew Roling

Clinical Assistant Professor

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