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- 02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising
Hotel Manzana Kempinski La Habana—the city’s first-ever luxury hotel—his morning meetings begin with something much more basic: “How much water do we have in the tanks?” On a sunny April day in the airy second-floor lobby, Benedetti...
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Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2011
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Whale Wars
ship-based helicopter, two Zodiac speedboats, and three Sea Shepherd vessels began pursuing the harpoon ships through the ice pack. The harpooners countered with powerful water cannons when our speedboats tried to get close enough to hurl...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Turning Point: One Step at a Time
work just as well. Luckily this meant I had plenty of places to hide. I found a tree a few hundred feet beyond the starting line and ducked for cover. Then I spritzed myself with water to ensure that I was appropriately sweaty and jogged...
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Christina Wallace (MBA 2010)
- 19 Jul 2011
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Brightening the Future
that inner voice led Ayala to launch Hybrid Social Solutions, Inc. (HSSI), a Philippine social business that distributes solar lanterns and water filtration devices specifically designed for the needs of poor communities. HSSI’s solar...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Slum for Sale
slum as defined by the United Nations: inadequate access to safe water and sanitation, poorly built housing, overcrowding, and insecure residential status (i.e., most people hold no legal title to their property). Despite these difficult...
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- 01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
temperate climates that have access to water and are in higher latitudes tend to be more developed than those in lower latitudes with tropical climates and minimal water access. Sachs explained that tropical...
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Susan Young
- 05 May 2023
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Fail Better
there were beautiful leaves coming down. I was looking out at the water and, you know, the sun was glancing off of the water, and I said, I can never do this again in my life. I can never have another meeting like this. What do I have to...
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- 29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of...
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- 03 Mar 2020
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Can This Man Change the American Diet?
around to you. That one’s probably brewed too hot. So this is a little bit of a delicate green tea. I can just tell tasting, it’s like it was probably brewed with, like, boiling water and it can’t handle that. So that’s why it’s got like...
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Agriculture
- 01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four
retrenching, returning to its roots. When the water is highest in the river, you can’t see the rocks. Right now you can see the rocks. There’s more clarity on which areas are not likely to be competitive and which will be important places...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Chai Ling
Freedom. Democracy. For five days, as Chai Ling lay in the suffocating darkness of a nailed-shut crate, these words sustained her more than her meager ration of bread and water ever could. Hidden in the hold of a leaky boat, waiting to...
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- 16 Dec 2016
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An Environmental Epiphany
Africa. We hiked for about eight days in the bush, far removed from any civilization. No roads. No cabins. Slept under the stars in between the animals. And one day, our guides told us we were going to hike to find some fresh drinking View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
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The Accidental Innovator
something that makes the content and the tools of a world-class education available to everyone, the way that clean drinking water and electricity are things that everyone should have in their lives. Even now, a student can have that...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Inside Out
subset of that 10 percent—the 1 percent costs of energy, waste, and water when looked at in terms of total cost of occupancy. The reason for this focus on the 1 percent is largely that these are easy targets. They are easy in two ways....
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office
regard to work—it’s mostly us coming together as a team and really understanding one other. Even our Slack channels have things like break rooms to replicate water cooler chat. We’ve got fitness channels—and I’m in that, challenging my...
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- 27 May 2021
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History’s Future
means embracing the local community. Among its early efforts to involve the community, the Royal Commission has funded a thousand scholarships for residents pursuing study in areas such as archeology and water management. It also has...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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The Accidental Innovator
create something that hasn’t existed before, an influential, international institution that will be around in 200 or 300 years. We don’t want be just a cute website, but something that makes the content and the tools of a world-class education available to everyone,...
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- 29 Sep 2022
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
patient treatment and contact tracing, including procurement of all supplies of oxygen and medical equipment; support for the private sector and employment; distribution of food kits and food stamps to more than 1 million households; and View Details
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Maureen Harmon
- 02 Dec 2018
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An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
is being used and advocate for climate-smart investments. Looking ahead to 2030, Ellis, of Inherent Group, emphasized opportunities in water reuse and efficiency, and Broido Johnson, of CBJ Energy, highlighted low-tech but high-impact...
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- 11 Sep 2009
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I Network, You Network, He, She, It Networks…
road would pick up his or her office mail (and any snail-mailed thank-you notes) in a timely fashion. Others wondered at her advice to mention personal interests that had come up in conversation (maybe the recruiter owns and breeds Portuguese View Details