How Sian Flowers Aims to Create a Low-Carbon Rose

An episode of the Climate Rising podcast, hosted by Harvard Business School Business & Environment Initiative, titled "How Sian Flowers Aims to Create a Low-Carbon Rose" was published on October 25, 2023 and runs 25 minutes.

October 25, 2023 ·25m · Climate Rising

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This bonus episode of Climate Rising features Harvard Business Review’s Cold Cast podcast with Brian Kenny interviewing HBS professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel about their teaching case about Kenya-based Sian Flowers. They discuss the company’s efforts to create a “low-carbon rose” by shipping them to their clients around the world by sea instead of by air without eroding their quality, and the effects this has on its production process. For transcripts and other resources, visit climaterising.org Guest/Host: ● Brian Kenny, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Harvard Business School and host of Cold Call ● Willy Shih, Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration ● Mike Toffel, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management

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This bonus episode of Climate Rising features Harvard Business Review’s Cold Cast podcast with Brian Kenny interviewing HBS professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel about their teaching case about Kenya-based Sian Flowers. They discuss the company’s efforts to create a “low-carbon rose” by shipping them to their clients around the world by sea instead of by air without eroding their quality, and the effects this has on its production process. For transcripts and other resources, visit climaterising.org Guest/Host: ● Brian Kenny, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Harvard Business School and host of Cold Call ● Willy Shih, Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration ● Mike Toffel, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management

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