I'm pleased to announce and invite applications to a new Harvard Business School business and climate change fellowship program that will fund 7 scholars -- Visiting Faculty and Postdocs -- for 1-2 years to be in residence on the HBS campus, starting in the 2023-24 academic year. This BiGS Climate Fellows program is sponsored by the new HBS Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS). See attached for more information and application instructions.
I encourage you to consider applying and to forward this to colleagues who might be promising candidates.
Applicants can hold appointments at any rank (Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Post-Doctoral Fellow). The program welcomes scholars from diverse backgrounds and geographies, and are particularly interested in those whose work focuses on decarbonization, adaptation and resilience, climate accounting and finance, climate tech and entrepreneurship, systems change, and energy transition – in any part of the world.
BiGS Climate Fellows will have their own research agendas, but also should make a durable impact on the academic community studying business and climate change at HBS and/or other Harvard schools. This will often consist of working closely with at least one Harvard faculty member to develop a new scholarly working paper, a managerial article, educational material (such as a case or technical note), or by co-designing and co-leading an innovative short course (e.g., a one-week intensive course) on a business and climate change topic. Candidates should propose in their application how they might accomplish this objective, and are invited to reach out to faculty with whom they hope to collaborate before submitting their application. BiGS Climate Fellows can also pursue opportunities to present a business and climate change research project at a research seminar at HBS and other Harvard schools.
BiGS Climate Fellows will receive salary, a research budget, and housing and relocation support. They will have office space and administrative support on the HBS campus, and will hold visiting appointments at HBS with no teaching requirements and no intention of long-term appointments.
Applications are due December 1, 2022. The application is posted on the HBS BiGS website, both on the Fellows page and as one of the highlights on the main page. HBS hopes to extend offers to the Fellows before the winter break.
Please consider applying and forwarding this to promising candidates.
Best regards,
Michael Toffel
Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management
Faculty Chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative
Harvard Business School
mtoffel@hbs.edu | website | @MikeToffel
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