OP-EDHBS Faculty Comment onEnvironmental Issues for EarthDayPublished: April 26, 2011Author: StaffHarvard Business School faculty members construction—to work together to create all innovators today are working hard on theoffer their views on the many business facets of aspects of the urban environment. Also premise that smart cities will perform better"going green." necessary are new systems and processes for environmentally, financially, and socially thanhelping cities operate efficiently and has been the case in most of the world's cities toeffectively, including the use of new date. A pretty smart way, we'd say, ofEarth Day focuses the world's attention on information and communication technologies protecting our environment.the both the dangers and opportunities facing already available but currently rarely used inthe planet. But sustainability and the this capacity. As always, more than half the Benjamin G. Edelman,intersection between business and the challenge is creating and implementing the newAssistant Professor ofenvironment are issues that need to be management processes that make smartaddressed all the time, as cities grow, resources technologies work. In short, the so-called "soft Business Administrationdiminish, and ecosystems are threatened by stuff" presents challenges that will occupy In most cities, the automobile is king of theboth nature and humankind. We asked a group management researchers and practitioners for commute, even ...