Emerging Perspectives on Climate Risk: Current Business Leaders & Future Business Leaders
Abstract
Increasingly, global companies have to balance short-term objectives with longer-term
opportunities in response to a changing climate. Corporations have a great deal to
gain from reframing climate-related risks into opportunities for growth, innovation,
and operational efficiency. In turn, business schools have an opportunity to train
emerging business leaders in mitigation and response strategies to address environmental
and climate-related risk. This multi-faceted research project examines how corporations
view non-financial risk, particularly as it relates to climate change and in turn,
how MBA students – as a proxy for emerging business leaders – perceive climate-related
risks and opportunities. Results indicate that corporations are aligned in their focus
on non-financial risks as a category but vary across industries on the importance
and relevance of what constitutes ‘material’. MBA students place greater value on
mitigating environmental and social disruption risk when primed of its importance
but do not feel adequately prepared to address emergent social and environmental issues
as corporate professionals.
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Blake, Adam; Bonney, Devon; Geoffrey, Luke; Gibson, Amanda; & Duggan, Amanda (2018). Emerging Perspectives on Climate Risk: Current Business Leaders & Future Business
Leaders. Master's project, Duke University. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/16568.Collections
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