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- 01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
better absorb water and nutrients. Below the topsoil is subsoil: lighter in color and much denser, with more sand, clay, and rocks in its composition and very little organic matter. Below that, bedrock. December 5 marks World Soil Day, an...
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- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
reckless gambling of assets. Its hubris was to attempt to commoditize electric power, water, and broadband, despite what Salter called critical points of difference from natural gas. (Electric power and water are politically sensitive at...
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- 21 Nov 2015
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HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values
chemicals and water that you use to produce the items, but also the waste. People throw away 90 percent of what they are going to buy in the next two years. So it’s just amazing. In the US and in the UK, people throw away about 30 kilos...
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- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
scheme of life, it was a small sacrifice to make. Just a few weeks later, in the same body of water that I had been operating in, a shipmate and fellow guardian – Senior Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne – was killed by narco-terrorists...
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Capitalism as a System of Governance
My research interest is in further exploration of the analytic utility of an original conception of capitalism as an indirect, three level system of governance for the economic relationships within political entities, and mostly within nation states. This three level...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Deep Discovery
The British luxury liner RMS Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine on its New York-to-Liverpool run in 1915. The ship sank in 300 feet of water off the coast of Ireland; 1,198 (including 128 Americans) of 1,959 passengers and crew...
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- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World...
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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Thumbs Up Down Under
It was with mixed emotions that Rich Wilson (MBA '82) and his coskipper Bill Biewenga set sail from New York Harbor last September aboard their 53-foot trimaran Great American II, heading south on a long-planned voyage to Melbourne, Australia, fourteen thousand miles...
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By: Debora L. Spar
I'll have a girl, please
American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006
DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Batteries Included
Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz Supply-chain shortages put container shipping in the headlines during the pandemic, with images of vessels languishing in line at major ports worldwide. It made visible what Steven Henderson (MBA 2016), CEO and cofounder of Fleetzero,...
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- 25 Jun 2018
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Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’
Tamin Pechet (MBA 2007) founded and manages a platform of firms that support and invest in innovative water and infrastructure resources. He is CEO of Upwell, chairman of Imagine H2O, and founder of Banyan Water. In this interview, he...
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Water: reserves and usage
Where can I find data on water reserves and usage by country? World Water Development Report United Nations): provides a comprehensive review of the world’s freshwater resources. From 2003...
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- 06 Oct 2022
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Untapped Potential
Courtesy Tom Ferguson “Climate change is really water change,” says Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014). From the deadly floods that deluged western Europe in the summer of 2021, to the once-in-a-century drought conditions that have ravaged Brazil...
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- 15 Apr 2020
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How Sarah Kauss Built S’well
Sarah Kauss Sarah Kauss In a recent episode of NPR’s How I Built This, Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) discussed the formation of the reusable water bottle company S’well. The key revelation, she notes, came during a hike in 2009 with her mother,...
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Wastewater: treatment technology basics, market overview
Where can I find information on wastewater treatment technologies? Wastewater treatment technologies: basic information Water & Wastewater Treatment: A guide for the Nonengineering Professional View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Just Chillin’
Keeping things cool at HBS during the hot summer months is the chilled water plant, a 19,700-square-foot facility located underground near the B-School parking lot. With hundreds of thousands of gallons coursing through miles of pipe, the...
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Water: management strategy in agriculture
Where to find information on water management strategies in agriculture? GeoRef is a database by the American Geological Institute. It provides studies on the topic from various publications including maps and conference papers. You...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance by Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman (Harvard Business Press) Professor Raman and his coauthor explain how to use analytics to better manage inventory for faster...
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Origins of a Classic: Getting to Yes Turns 25
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Nancy J. Waters
Wheeler, Michael A., and Nancy J. Waters. "Origins of a Classic: Getting to Yes Turns 25." Negotiation Journal 22, no. 4 (October 2006): 475–481.