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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
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... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- News
New Funding for Female Founders
cruelty-free; its operations are carbon and plastic neutral, according to Prima. Saigal is co-founder and CEO of Kudos, a startup that has reengineered the disposable diaper for greater sustainability. Kudos announced the close of a $2.4... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Growing and Competing at the Local Level
on average reduce that by 44 percent. “I think what’s critical right now is understanding that 98 percent of the manufacturers in the United States are really small and medium sized. It’s that metal bender down the street, that plastic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Digging Deep
Above: Pieper, shovel-ready in Moab, Utah (photo by Vance Jacobs) On a wintry day three years ago, Susan Pieper (MBA 1992) watched her son, a devoted snowboarder, build jumps in the backyard of their Jackson, Wyoming, home, trashing a series of View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
No Rain Delay for Graduation 2008
Class Day 2008 was, in a word, wet. Umbrellas and clear plastic ponchos kept students, families, and friends assembled June 4 on Baker Lawn tolerably dry. Even drier were the 300 or so onlookers who opted to watch the proceedings live on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
sequestered in subzero conditions. Next to the freezer sits a vacuum seal machine used to rid books and documents of bug infestations. The airless environment inside a sealed plastic bag asphyxiates the paper-munching invaders without... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
store personnel.” Vicente Co (OPM 26) President, Philippine Plastic Industry Association “We converted our plastics plant into a manufacturing facility for Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs) and partnered... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
technology’s primary customers are the manufacturers of e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle (the market leader, at least for the moment), Sony’s Reader, and the others sure to follow. (Hearst, Plastic Logic, and new companies in China and... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
program started in Haiti two years ago to fight water-borne disease. Partnering with a local recycling center, Goodwin and his team helped create 26 centers, each one run by Haitian entrepreneur. The program, which washes and grinds View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
possibly could.” That was the proverbial “two-by-four whack upside the head” that made me realize we were dealing with a disease. Amy started treatment; soon after, on December 26, she died of an overdose at the facility. Going through the View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
made to contain the risk that such outside organic matter could introduce. Visitors are asked to dip the soles of their shoes into a shallow plastic water bath, so as to limit contamination by pathogens and insects. Entry into one of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
the disk’s metal clip and yanked open the tough plastic outer casing, Enriquez now removes from its inner sanctum a flimsy black vinyl circle. “This is the part that matters,” he declares, waving it triumphantly before the youngsters, who... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
scarcity Nicole Sherwood (MBA 2005) Jonathan Rose Companies New York Green real estate policy, planning, development, civic-development, and investment firm Scott Smith (MBA 1991) Opflex Solutions West Hyannisport, Massachusetts Manufactures, markets, and sells... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
a lower temperature. It’ll probably be a lot sweeter Julia: After tea, we move on to hay straws a product pitched as an environmentally friendly replacement for the restaurant’s compostable plastic straws. They’re introduced by Olivia... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
to locomotives. “No matter what the product, for over 130 years GE has been about imagination at work,” says Immelt. “It’s always been a combination of the dreaming and the doing.” Immelt came to GE straight out of HBS, holding various positions in the company’s View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he became chief executive of WPP,... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
sequestration, grasslands, and the food and agricultural sector. Audience members also contributed climate-smart investment advice, ranging from the role of bicycles in cities to alternatives to plastic and “single-use stuff.” More... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
awards and accolades from the World Economic Forum, the Wall Street Journal, and MIT’s Technology Review. “This is a $170 billion market screaming for a fundamental innovation,” says Evans. “It’s a fantastic opportunity.” Most recently CEO of the tech company View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
and enjoying it on your own." So he decided to rent out some of the cottages. The first guests ate at a common table, as they do today. "You make a social investment here. People who get no return on a social investment probably shouldn't come. We don't want the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
trash. It appeared to be a piece of plastic embossed with a stylized S. “I thought, is nothing completely safe from us?” He snapped a picture on his phone—evidence to show the world the need for better stewardship of the oceans—and... View Details