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- 16 Feb 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
(MBA 2019) Jonas Lee (MBA 1993) Meghan Kenny (MBA 2019) Jonas Lee (MBA 1993) Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains Scaling carbon capture in Southwest Wyoming Photo credits: Meghan Kenny; Jonas Lee Todd Brix (MBA 1997) Todd Brix (MBA 1997) Carbon's Second Act A startup...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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Advancing the Mission
and generate ideas that have the power to change the world. Far-Reaching Impact From the Classroom to Casablanca Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Fueling Innovation
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- 01 Oct 2021
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Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
Plastic bottles are sorted for recycling at Cedar Environmental on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon. Professor Nien-hê Hsieh tries to bring his students to the “gray area”—that uncomfortable and all-too-common space where leaders face...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Finding sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises
market-based solutions to difficult problems. "Business can be the greatest force for good on this planet," says Goodwin. Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, he led the establishment of a nationwide recycling program that currently...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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Beyond the Plastisphere
global production of plastic packaging is on course to quadruple by 2050—no amount of conventional recycling will get us out of this mess. Instead, experts say we need to improve our mopping-up efforts through recycling, upcycling, and...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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A Healthy Profit
crew is offered medical checkups, and more than 90 percent of employees participate in yearly health fairs that provide free screenings and educational resources. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH “All of their cruise ships have an internal water View Details
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Dan Morrell
- 07 Nov 2016
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The Business of Saving Old Buildings
setting up a nonprofit foundation to do recycling of older buildings, and so I started the Architecture Heritage Foundation and was asked by the Boston Redevelopment Authority to come up with what they could do with the surplus wholesale...
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- 19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues
was—naturally—”What are your biggest costs?” Trash, they said—it was 30 percent of the municipal budget. So Cisco outfitted Barcelona’s recycling bins with sensors that would help determine how full they were at pickup. The results: Most...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
was created in 2002. Since then, the School has borrowed nearly $1.6 million for over a dozen projects, including: Energy-efficient lighting at Burden, Kresge, Morris, and Teele halls. A recycling program that now collects more View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Fueling Innovation
credit to a Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business. Photos by Evgenia Eliseeva, Nabil Kapasi, and Susan Young ADVANCING THE MISSION Far-Reaching Impact From the Classroom to Casablanca Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
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- 01 Dec 2014
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Instilling Production with Principles
pro-environmental policies are money savers and the key to her company’s continued success, Yang says. More Retail Revolutions Recycling the Consignment Shop Bigger than the local consignment shop and easier than eBay, thredUP, cofounded...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
have been a huge mistake. Two years earlier, she and her partner, Peter Strugatz, had purchased the assets of Great Harbor Design at public auction for $26,000. The former owner had invested $4 million in perfecting a durable building surface made from cement and View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
everything from handmade jewelry (think cufflinks made from old typewriter keys) to custom-made furniture (perhaps a coffee table constructed from recycled barn siding?). Incorporated in 1985, founded by parent volunteers (Gehrke took the...
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- 25 Jan 2012
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Is Tax Reform Viable?
to invest in the careers of politicians who will vow to keep our unfair tax advantages. —Dal LaMagna (MBA 1970) is president and CEO of Brooklyn, New York–based IceStoneUSA, which makes countertops out of recycled glass and cement. The...
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- 20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
long-term solutions to fundamental problems. In Haiti, a recycling program built to reduce flooding from clogged canals has helped to reduce cholera transmissions and create sustainable jobs. In Brazil, a business consortium is providing...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
customers, so of course it makes sense that we care for our employees and our communities as an extension of that. Eco-consciousness has been part of the company since the beginning, given our practice of recycling and renovating older...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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From the Classroom to Casablanca
sometimes you have to discover new knowledge in new places in order to solve problems.” ADVANCING THE MISSION Far-Reaching Impact Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Fueling Innovation
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2011
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‘Green’ Trailblazers
E-waste recycling Marcel Brenninkmeijer (AMP 155 1998) Good Energies Foundation London, New York, and Zug Foundation focused on poverty alleviation through sustainable access to renewable energy Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002) Serious...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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New Releases
mountaineer Yvon Chouinard, the company differentiates its clothing along environmental lines, using expensive organic cotton and polyester made from recycled bottles. Patagonia's margins shrank, but sales to its high-end retail clientele...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Do Good: Eat Chocolate
investing ahead of its growth, the company has become more focused on breaking even in the current economic climate. From the start, Endline knew that her approach to chocolate would be “colorful, whimsical, and playful.” The reusable, View Details
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Julia Hanna;
candy;
chocolate;
Crop Production;
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Food Manufacturing;
Manufacturing