Global Strategy Interest Group Debate Series
Climate change and the energy transition have become increasingly important topics in strategy and management. The consensus is clear: without innovation and the engagement of all actors, we will not move the needle on climate change. Innovation is needed not only in new energy solutions, bridging energy divides, and building energy equity, but also in developing innovative financial solutions.
The voluntary carbon market has been touted as a potential financing mechanism for innovations that have yet to be funded by government subsidies—a way to drive forward progress in the fight against climate change. But is it truly effective?
This debate, presented by the Global Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society, brings together three (or four) thought leaders from academia and practice to discuss and debate the following critical question:
Voluntary trading of emissions credits is an effective or efficient way to reduce the rate of climate change.
This webinar is FREE for SMS members and $19 for non-members.
Panelists:
Florian Heeb
Florian is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Finance at Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE and Goethe University Frankfurt. He is also a Research Affiliate at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He explores the real-world impact of sustainable investing and how investors integrate impact into their decision-making. His work has been published in the Review of Financial Studies. Florian also serves as a member of the board of directors of ESG-AM, a Zurich-based asset manager focused on impact and sustainability. Before starting his academic career, Florian served in the executive management of South Pole, a market leader in corporate sustainability services. From previous positions at myclimate, ProNatura, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, he brings a broad understanding of environmental systems and climate policy. He holds an MSc in Environmental Science from ETH Zurich and a CAS in Strategic Management from the University of St. Gallen.
Andy King
Andrew A. King
Allen and Kelli Questrom Chair in Strategy and Innovation
Questrom School of Business
Boston University
Since the early 1990s, Professor Andrew A. King has been a leading scholar in sustainable business. In 2009, he helped found the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability and in 2015 he won the Academy of Management’s Distinguished Scholar Award. He holds Engineering degrees from Brown University and UC Berkeley and a PhD in Management from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Marco Montefiori
Marco Montefiori has more than twenty years of corporate experience in energy commodity trading for some of the largest energy companies in the world, both private and governmental.
He has run due diligence processes, invested in, fundraised for, advised and mentored early-stage startups in the energy transition across the spectrum from electricity retail to battery technologies, photovoltaic, hydrogen and lithium extraction.
As founder and president of the INSEAD Energy Club in Switzerland, he hosts energy events with the founders and senior leadership of disruptive technology companies in the energy sector, including carbon capture, solar thermal, and nuclear fourth generation.
Katherine Tatarinov
Katherine Tatarinov is Assistant Professor of Strategy at HEC Lausanne and SMS rep at large for the Global Strategy Interest Group.. Her research focuses on social innovation, digital transformation, and managing the grand challenges. Her work empirically analyses how organizations use technology and organization design to collaboratively solve the world’s biggest problems – through innovation, digital solutions, and ecosystem creation.
Her academic research is regularly presented at leading conferences, published in top international academic journals such as Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of Management Studies as well as practitioner journals, such as AIB Insights and Stanford Social Innovation Review, and received several prestigious awards such as the Peter J. Buckley and Mark Casson AIB Dissertation Award (2022) and the GSEM Young Researcher of the Year Award (2021) among others.
Katherine is the Managing Director of the non-profit Geneva Innovation Movement Association, where she translates her research findings into applicable insights and community building.