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- 24 Apr 2014
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A taste of home leads to jobs creation and community improvements
created jobs and improved his community’s water system. Focusing on efficiencies to fuel growth and create jobs, Scharfman’s Specialty Cheese has doubled its workforce to 100 people over the past five years. By partnering with government...
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- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
residents with tangible results: When a BOS:311 app user posts a photo of a downed tree limb, for example, the responding public works team often adds a photo of the clean street as well as the workers. “It closes the loop,” she says, “and allows us to reengage with...
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Dan Morrell
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis
of algae biofuel, both a clean energy source for heavy transportation modules (trucks, planes, trains, and ships) and a carbon-catching technology. A MARKET-BASED APPROACH TO SOLVING THE WORLD’S WATER CRISISJennifer Tisdel Schorsch (MBA...
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- 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20
in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in subsidiaries in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, France, India, and the United States. Investment versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about the Argentine Water Privatization Authors:Rafael Di Tella,...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment
School Juan Pablo Del ValleHBS MBA 2001 Chairman of the Board, Orbia “In an era of climate change, one of the greatest challenges of sustainable urbanization is managing the efficiency of water systems. At Orbia, we are striving to make...
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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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Frances Dixon
independent research project on water technologies. “I’m interested in private sector solutions. There are a couple of Boston startups that are investigating new technologies for filtering water or...
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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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- 02 Nov 2020
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2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Tyler Teykl (MBA 2017)
beauty of HBS is that it puts you into the alumni network where there is never a cold call. What is the most inspiring/exciting project you’ve worked on? The summer prior to entering my RC year, my wife, Shannon, and I traveled into rural Nicaragua with Living View Details
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Paul Scharfman
created jobs and improved his community’s water system. Focusing on efficiencies to fuel growth and create jobs, Scharfman’s Specialty Cheese has doubled its workforce to 100 people over the past five years. By partnering with government...
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Clint Lawrence
I peek over the edge. I can no longer see the white sand of the sea bed. Without hesitation, I jump into the deep blue Caribbean water and swim to shore. I am five years old and my dad is standing on Paradise Beach, shocked but proud. His...
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Courtney Fairbrother
Massachusetts Water Resource Authority and Rocky Mountain Institute. Work Experience: Higher Education, Sustainability Operations, State Government, Non-profit Think Tank, Energy Development, Consulting
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Jennifer Kelly
made a difference by working through grassroots organizations; I saw ways businesses could contribute that were not dependent on donations." As an example, Jennifer refers to the Manila Water Company. "They found a way to lower...
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- 26 Sep 2018
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Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
the world that has benefited everything from lemurs in Madagascar to sage grouse habitats of Wyoming, forests in New England to water quality on the Rappahannock River. Such efforts have also a spurred significant innovation in financing...
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April White
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- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
could teach the richest nation on earth about how to finance infrastructure. But, there are important lessons in multiple examples of roads, power, ports, and water projects that actually get built, thanks to successful funding models....
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
talented professionals across the world to help evaluate and support these interventions. Over the past 10 years, ADP has funded more than 50 promising nonprofits to transform hundreds of thousands of lives by building schools, clinics, biogas plants, and drinking...
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Mike Contillo
I called it magic water. My parents separated when I was young. I spent a lot of time with my grandfather. Each morning, he boiled tap water, which he chilled overnight in a glass carafe. Each afternoon, he poured two glasses of magic View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Room to Write
window that looks out into the woods.” —Keith D. Wright Sr. (PMD 67, 1994), Spiritual Oars for Dark Waters “During the cold months when I reside in San Francisco, I write at a favorite coffee shop. My first draft is always handwritten.”...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
soft gloss paint. To top it off, the building’s dome and finial were cleaned and resurfaced with new 23½-karat gold leaf. The academic year kicked off with a heated competition known as RC Field Day. Sections vied for domination in dizzy-bat, a View Details
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Georges F. Doriot