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Harvard University and Urban Mining Industries: Decarbonizing the Supply Chain
by Robert S. Kaplan and Shirley Lu

Our co-founder, Professor Robert Kaplan, and Shirley Lu (Harvard) co-authored a teachable case study describing Harvard University’s consideration to decarbonize its supply chain by replacing cement with a low-carbon substitute. The case illustrates the flow of emissions along a simple supply chain, from the manufacturing of the substitute to concrete production to Harvard University’s construction project.

Harvard Business Review

May 2023

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Getting a Clearer View of Your Company’s Carbon Footprint
by Robert S. Kaplan, Karthik Ramanna, and Stefan J. Reichelstein

E-liability accounting will help customers factor in a product’s environmental footprint into their purchasing decisions and will help create a competition dynamic that leads to reduced carbon outputs. Two pilot studies by an Asian tire manufacturer and a German cement producer illustrate how the E-liability methodology can do this.

Harvard Business Review

April 2023

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Getting Real about Measuring Environmental Impact 
with Karthik Ramanna

Our co-founder, Professor Karthik Ramanna, was interviewed on the Oxford Policy Pod about the issues with current approaches to environmental reporting and the advantages of E-liability as an auditable and verifiable accounting system.

Oxford Policy Pod

January 2023

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We Need Better Carbon Accounting. Here’s How to Get There.
by Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna

Our second HBR article explores how E-liability addresses current shortfalls in measuring and reducing carbon emissions in complex supply chains. It demonstrates how we can use E-liability to identify value-creating opportunities to streamline production practices and energy use, resulting in cleaner and more competitive goods.

Harvard Business Review

April 2022

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A Smarter Way to Measure GHG Emissions?

The Winners of the HBR McKinsey Award Explain.

“Accounting for Climate Change,” the first Harvard Business Review (HBR) article written by our co-founders introducing the E-liability accounting method, went on to win the 2022 HBR-McKinsey Award for “groundbreaking management thinking”, which in turn kicked off a series of pilot adoptions of the method by organizations around the world. This McKinsey piece highlights how their winning article proposes a breakthrough approach to measuring greenhouse gas emissions, using foundational cost accounting logic to assign emissions individual products across supply chains.

McKinsey & Company

April 2022

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Accounting for Climate Change

The first rigorous approach to ESG reporting

by Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna

The E-liability accounting system was introduced as the first rigorous approach to ESG reporting in an article co-authored by Professors Robert Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna and published in the Harvard Business Review (HBR). The article provides a detailed method for assigning “E-liabilities” across an entire value chain, and uses the example of a car-door manufacturer to demonstrate how this may work in practice. The article went on to win the 2022 HBR-McKinsey Award for “groundbreaking management thinking,” which in turn kicked off a series of pilot adoptions of the method by organizations around the world.

Harvard Business Review

November-December 2021

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