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- 01 Jun 2009
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Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
standard of living. But Amar Bhidé (MBA ’79, DBA ’88) thinks the “gathering storm” theory is not only wrong but alarmist and harmful. Writing in his book The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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The Sparkles in Our Skies
Bain, consumers—perhaps wary of greenwashing in the notoriously opaque industry—have thus far not discerned the difference between the sustainability of the two methods of production. With Aether, Hagemann hopes to change that. Convincing...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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The Science and Economics of Carbon Recycling
- 01 Dec 2020
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The Camel and the Unicorn
predecessors to modern computers. The computing revolution naturally followed, in part fueled by government projects like ARPANet, the Defense Department initiative that would lay the foundation for the modern internet. But powering all of this technological View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
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Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’
technologies––things like data analysis, using the internet to carry signals of information, advanced treatment technologies––things like that, and how to build sustainable businesses that improve the way water and wastewater are managed....
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- 31 Jan 2023
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Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Saigal (MBA 2014), founder and CEO of Kudos, a sustainable diaper company, and Sarina Siddhanti Garg (MBA 2015), founder of the South Asian formal clothing retailer Riya Collective. The women shared their startup journeys with guest...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2012
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New Fund Supports FIELD Module 3
HBS has received a $1 million commitment from the DS Foundation MBA Program Innovation Fund to help underwrite the costs of ongoing MBA curriculum innovation. The fund will be used to cover expenses first-year student teams incur while...
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- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
much and it's such an interesting, complex problem. But I'm also seeing this massive proliferation of invention and innovators and entrepreneuring and capital. DM: Which is good, says our student entrepreneur Aaron Sabin, because carbon...
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- 17 Apr 2019
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Financing the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
tax” to mitigate the environmental impact of development through investment in conserving water-absorbing grasslands. Now the senior director of financing land conservation at investment bank Seale & Associates, he is proudest of his years-long effort “to seek out...
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- 15 Dec 2017
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WiTricity Takes a Turn Toward Electric-Car Charging
- 03 Feb 2021
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Power Play
a ways off. But as he watched innovations like battery storage and solar drive sharp increases in demand, that clean-energy future didn’t seem so far away any longer. “We are moving off fossil fuels at a clip faster than anybody, even...
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Maureen Harmon
- 19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
opportunity to drive innovative environmental policy, Professor Michael W. Toffel told an audience of HBS and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) alumni at the University Club of Washington DC, on February 12, 2020. “The traditional approach...
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April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
attendance is required, and therefore students are engaged. Those are the real drivers of the learning here. Our entrepreneurship courses and our programs are fantastic, but if we weren’t building on the base of the overall MBA experience, they wouldn’t be nearly as...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2008
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Faculty Books
collection of Professor Porter’s articles from the Harvard Business Review is arranged by topic. Parts I and II present the well-known frameworks addressing how companies, nations, and regions gain and sustain competitive advantage. Part...
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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
- 01 Dec 2002
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Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
and educational programs in social enterprise with the partnership of AVINA, a foundation that supports sustainable development in the area; the HBS Latin America Research Center (LARC); and six cooperating universities throughout the...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation...
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- 20 Nov 2015
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Room to Grow
high-impact programs that take aim at statewide food policies, large-scale food operations, and regional food infrastructures to spark the innovations that will move them closer to that goal. “With the increasing awareness and demand for...
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Margie Kelley
- 09 Feb 2016
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Powering into the Future
Alexander Gruzen (MBA 1990) is CEO of WiTricity Corp., in Texas. In this video, he explains how his company is helping to lead the world toward a more sustainable future. “I wanted to create something very new and had a chance to join a...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS
successful door-to-door salesmen. Yunus described several sustainable “social businesses” (all profits to the enterprise) he has launched in Bangladesh. They include Grameenphone, which put cell phones into the hands of millions of poor,...
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