Corporations at Climate Crossroads (Hsueh 2025) - Weekend Book Review

English Podcast starts at 00:00:00Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:20:29Hindi Podcast Starts at 00:39:07Welcome to Revise and Resubmit. This is Weekend Book Review. 🎙️✨Hey friends 👋 I’m buzzing to crack open "Corporations at Climate Crossroads: Multilevel Governance, Public Policy, and Global Climate Action" by Lily Hsueh, published on 02 September 2025 by MIT Press. 📚🌍 This one hits like a drumbeat. It starts small. It grows. It gathers evidence. It crescendos. It asks business to look in the mirror, then look outward to policy, then look upward to global governance, and act.Here’s the hook 🔗: Hsueh shows that climate action inside the world’s biggest firms is not guesswork. It is a system. It is bottom-up and top-down. It is internal leadership meeting external institutions. From 2011 to 2020, across Fortune Global 500 companies reporting to CDP, she maps who moves first, who follows regulation, who learns through global governance, and how managerial capabilities turn pressure into performance. There are numbers. Big ones. There are cases. Sharp ones. There is a framework of multilevel governance that explains why some firms self-regulate boldly while most respond to incentives, constraints, and opportunities to learn. 🔍📈And the guide behind the map? Lily Hsueh, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Arizona State University, a former Visiting Scholar at Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment, an American Fellow of AAUW in 2020–21, and a scholar whose work has appeared in the Financial Times, Fortune, and PBS NewsHour. She blends economics, political science, and management to show how leaders navigate uncertainty with complementary capabilities, regulatory engagement, and strategic bets that matter when the heat is on. 🧠🔥So let’s read with purpose, ears open to the rhythm of evidence and eyes on the levers that actually move emissions. If you were a corporate decision maker tomorrow morning, which signal would tip you from mere compliance to true conviction on climate action? 🤔🌱🙏 Thank you, Lily Hsueh, and thank you, MIT Press.🎧 If you enjoyed this, subscribe to the podcast on Spotify and to our YouTube channel Weekend Researcher.💿 We’re also available on Amazon Prime Music and Apple Podcast. Tap follow, ring the bell, and join the conversation. 🔔✨ReferenceHsueh, L. (2025). Corporations at climate crossroads. MIT Press. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13675.001.0001‌Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcherSupport us on Patreonhttps://patreon.com/weekendresearcher