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Here's our current climate conundrum: The climate crisis is the single biggest challenge facing the planet, renewable energy is cheaper than fossil fuels in most areas of the world, yet society is struggling to both regulate and incentivize the global reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. This course offers an in-depth look at how diverse levers, from carbon markets to legislative and regulatory mandates to grassroots movements, are accelerating the adoption of climate solutions. The course begins with the origins of international climate policy in the Kyoto and Paris Agreements, which have created an international consensus around national carbon targets. We look at how the development of both regulated and voluntary carbon markets offer potentially significant means of meeting net zero goals, the former by setting a regional price on carbon as compliance markets take off around the world, the latter by financing technological advancement and providing capital flows for unfunded climate projects in the Global South. In parallel, we explore how a range of policy measures from air and water regulations to state mandates for battery storage, energy efficiency, and renewable energy to federal tax incentives have bent the curve on domestic carbon emissions. We look at how new trade policies based on carbon intensity have the potential to create a virtuous circle across supply chains. And we evaluate the role that investors, organized labor, consumers and grassroots movements have played in much of this work. Lastly, the course covers how technology is increasingly enabling decarbonization mechanisms (eg through digital monitoring of the environment) and how our growing understanding of the carbon cycle, including sophisticated nature-based and engineered carbon removal solutions, is opening a whole new sector of climate tech and transition investment. The course will be taught from the perspective of long-time practitioners and will include case studies and visiting entrepreneurs and policy makers.

This course is intended for Master's level students. It surveys our planet's greatest sustainability challenges, and some of the possible ways that humankind might overcome each through proactive leadership. The course material includes readings from multiple disciplines: from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and from business and policy studies. By the end of the course, you should have a basic understanding of the global biological, cultural, social, and economic processes involved in environmental sustainability. Our objective is for you to carry forward this understanding into your career, to enable you to make a difference for the future of our world.

Taxes affect a wide variety of business decisions, including the efficient formation of businesses, the creation of cash and equity compensation plans, operational planning across jurisdictions with competing tax regimes, M&A tax structure, and retirement planning (to name a few). This course first provides a conceptual framework for incorporating taxation into business decisions, linking concepts from accounting, corporate finance, business law, and economics. The course then provides real-world examples to illustrate both the business impact and the societal impact of specific tax policies, including the effects on business investment, job creation, and cross-border tax competition. The course provides a holistic view of how the business of taxes impacts companies, tax advisors, citizens, and the government.

Climate change poses one of the most salient emerging risks - and opportunities - to financial markets. This course discusses the fast-moving frontiers of climate finance. It will particularly focus on the role that private markets play in accelerating the growth of the companies facilitating the transition to a carbon-neutral economy. The course will consist of a mix of lectures introducing frameworks and relevant background information, case studies, and guest speakers. There will be two hands-on homework exercises where students evaluate real-world investment opportunities - one at the venture-capital stage and one at the private-equity stage. After taking this course, students will (a) be familiar with the unique challenges of financing climate tech at scale; (b) understand the key climate disclosure requirements, frameworks for financed emissions, and methods for 'impact measurement'; and (c) develop some practical experience with portfolio allocation for sustainability-focused investment funds. No prior finance knowledge is required.

As a leader, some of the most critical decisions you will make will be about people. Whom should you hire? With whom should you partner or collaborate? In whom should you invest? Whether you are a manager, a founder, or an investor, developing your ability to evaluate and select exceptional talent will accelerate your impact. This course has been designed to teach leaders the practical skills of talent assessment, so you can deepen your knowledge of leadership behaviors, recognize leadership potential, and increase your confidence in selection choices. During interactive lectures, you will contemplate prominent leadership theories to understand the behaviors associated with high performance leadership, and you will debate the efficacy of selection data and methodologies. In highly experiential classes, you will learn how to design an effective selection process and how to conduct structured behavioral based interviews to evaluate leadership potential. Using 360 input from supervisors, peers, and subordinates, you also will deepen your understanding of your own leadership potential, identifying which leadership behaviors you can develop further to accelerate your impact. Through this process of self-reflection, you will deepen your understanding of assessment, sharpen your evaluation instincts, and learn to identify growth opportunities for yourself and others.

In addition to having leadership roles in corporations, investment firms, and other organizations, today's MBAs will be tomorrow's university trustees and major donors. They will find many of these institutions in a state of crisis involving identity, equality, and discourse. During the past half century, American universities and the leadership of major corporations have evolved from being largely white, male, and Protestant to becoming more diverse in many ways. However, some of the policies that have contributed to this progress are being abandoned or distorted. For example, the Supreme Court recently prohibited race-based affirmative action, a major vehicle for achieving diversity. And diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, originally designed to counter discrimination based on individuals' identities, have sometimes become vehicles for creating stark divisions among people with different identities. The university's missions of seeking truth and engaging in critical inquiry have been undermined by both progressive and conservative actors. Affective polarization has dramatically increased, and civil and critical discourse are in steep decline throughout society's institutions. Controversies about the war in Gaza have only exacerbated these problems. We will examine the nature and causes of these and related problems, and consider possible solutions for reducing polarization, restoring discourse, and achieving genuine equality. Although our main focus will be on institutions of higher education, we will also examine these issues in corporations and other organizational settings. In the conduct of the class, we will try to model civil, critical discourse. Students who opt to take the course for a grade will write a paper of approximately 10 single-spaced pages on any topic related to the course. Students who opt to take the course on a pass/fail basis will be assessed based on four reflection papers. In both cases, students' performance will also be evaluated based on class participation.

'There are only four kinds of people in the world. Those who have been caregivers. Those who are currently caregivers. Those who will be caregivers, and those who will need a caregiver.' -- Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter. We have a broken care system in the U.S. Americans spend $648 billion annually on care, and it is expected to grow. There is a significant labor shortage of trained caregivers. Currently, 53 million Americans serve as unpaid family caregivers to someone who is aging, ill, or living with a disability. The childcare market is similarly unaffordable, fragmented, and broken. Every business leader today is confronting the complexities of a workforce of young parents, often challenged to find care for their children and/or their parents and family members. These markets, often referred to as the Care Economy, are overlooked and ripe for reinvention with the potential for enormous social impact. This course will expose students to key insights about the Care Economy from the perspective of entrepreneurs, investors, caregivers, and business leaders. We will explore the spectrum of care needs, from children to older adults, and how other developed economies such as Singapore, Denmark and Japan have created their care systems and addressed the needs of working families. During the course, students will meet several distinguished thought leaders working to build a better care system, including the CEO of a leading care navigation company, major investors in the care economy, key business leaders spearheading public-private partnerships for caregiving, and policy innovators. The course will include cases, panels with entrepreneurs, class exercises, and lectures. Class topics will include:-How employers¿ support for employees with caregiving responsibilities can benefit their organization.-Understanding the breadth of industries and services that encompass the Care Economy. -Learning about the ¿triangle¿ of payors, purchasers and users of care services and products.-Identifying the different needs and complexities of caring for infants, children, older adults. -The Care Economy innovation ecosystem: opportunities, challenges, and best practices.-The important role of policy, both within organizations as well as local, state and national initiatives, to create a better care system for people from their 'first breath to their last.'