The HBS Club of Chicago is hosting - The Intersection of Agribusiness & Climate: Professors D. Bell and F. Reinhardt
Are you interested in connecting with other alumni leveraging their careers to combat climate change? BEI invites you to join our Alumni in Climate Networking Series for a chance to connect with local alumni to discuss ideas, trends, opportunities, and challenges at the intersection of business and the environment. During this event, Professor David Bell nd Professor Forest Reinhardt will discuss how businesses and governments are altering their strategies and operations in light of global climate change. They will discuss the pros and cons of different approaches, and how much of an impact certain solutions, such as regenerative agriculture, could have on our climate. They will draw from recent cases and research coming from HBS’s Agribusiness Seminar.
Complimentary food and wine will be served.
This event is open to all Harvard alumni only.
Professor David E. Bell
David E. Bell is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and the George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Emeritus. He has taught marketing many times in the MBA program including as course head.
During his career at HBS, David has taught a variety of other courses to both MBAs and executives, including risk management, retailing, ethics, and managerial economics. Professor Bell runs the annual Agribusiness Seminar for executives and has taught an MBA course on the same topic.
He has held a number of administrative positions at HBS including head of the Program for Management Development (PMD, 2002-06), terms as chairman of the School’s marketing faculty (2002-08, 2013-19) and as Senior Associate Dean for Planning and Recruiting (2008-12, 2016-18).
David has a BA degree from Oxford University and a PhD from MIT.
Professor Forest L Reinhardt
Forest L. Reinhardt is the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and HBS’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotions and Tenure.
Professor Reinhardt is interested in the relationships between market and nonmarket business strategy, the connections between the activities of government entities and those of firms, the behavior of private and public organizations that manage natural resources, and the economics of externalities and public goods. He is the author of Down to Earth: Applying Business Principles to Environmental Management, published by Harvard Business School Press. Like that book, many of his articles and papers analyze problems of environmental and natural resource management. Focusing especially on the energy and agricultural sectors, he has written numerous classroom cases on these and related topics, which are used at Harvard and elsewhere in MBA curricula and in executive programs.
Professor Reinhardt chairs and teaches in Harvard Business School’s Agribusiness Seminar, an executive education program held each January on the HBS campus. Professor Reinhardt has taught HBS’s required MBA courses on Strategy and on Business, Government, and the International Economy. He has developed and introduced elective courses on Food and Agribusiness, on Energy, and on Business and the Environment, analyzing these topics from economic and political perspectives, and considering the strategies both of incumbent firms and startups.
This event is open to all Harvard alumni only.
EVENT DETAILS
Date: Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Time: 5:30-8:00pm Central
Location: The William Blair Building
150 North Riverside Plaza, Chicago IL 60606
COST: Harvard Alum - Complimentary
Registration Closes on Tuesday, Mar 26.
Registration - HBSCC