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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Preserving Patagonia
recognized that conserved land has many embedded values: limited development (environmentally friendly real estate), sustainable agriculture, carbon sequestration potential, recreation (eco-tourism), water rights, and more. Profits for... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- News
Progress Through Preservation
a former urban developer, likes the art of closing. The Trust helps to negotiate land transactions between landowners and public entities or groups hoping to preserve it. It also focuses on conservation... View Details
- 15 Mar 2015
- News
An Urban Planner Gives the Lowdown on LA
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
than just financial gain,” he stresses. Some of his most successful deals have involved conservation easements that minimize investment risk while creating economic value from parcels that merit conservation. He has worked extensively on View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
Terminal, Bryant Park, and the surrounding neighborhood—working for a time with Dan Biederman (MBA 1977), a pioneer in revitalizing urban spaces through public-private partnerships—Zuckerberg joined the family-owned Samson Investment Partners in 2001. His interest in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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The Burden Legacy
16, landed his first job as a reporter and camera assistant with a New York newsreel company. He joined RKO Pictures in California in 1929, rising from production assistant to associate producer. At the dawn of World War II Shirley... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
the Charles River, an Enterprise Research Campus that will include two lab buildings, a University conference center, a hotel, and two residential towers, is projected to come online by the end of the decade, according to Carl Rodrigues, CEO of the Harvard Allston... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Don’t Mess with His Texas
his ranch land to the state so that it will be protected forever, the San Antonio Express-News reported (June 8, 2009). “You see it, and you just want to take care of it,” said Waters. A Texas native, Waters worked on Wall Street before... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
15 years old, and his extended family quickly swooped in to seize his assets—a common move known locally as a land grab. Dlodlo’s mother, who was left to raise five children single-handed, fought off her in-laws as long as she could.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
in potential employees. "Our primary goal is to gauge the integrity and empathy of these young men and women," he says. If you think it's hard to get into Harvard Business School, consider what it takes to land a job as a consultant at... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
increase the productivity of our land and raw materials, what’s ahead of us is a fourth industrial revolution—a “resource revolution” that creates more alignment, stability and resiliency in our world. Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006) Managing... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Leveraging MBA Skills for the Public Good
conservation and historic preservation projects. “I wrote, coordinated, and administered the grants for a local land trust,” she says. “I never felt my education was wasted, even if it wasn’t paying work. I... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Creation of parks connects people to nature and each other
Will Rogers (MBA 1985) recognizes the power of the natural world. As president and CEO of the Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit that works to conserve land for use as parks and gardens, he helps ensure that nature sticks around... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
Wolfgang Klietmann, MD (OPM 12, 1987), president of the association, lauded Wyss for his “service to humanity and society in health care, research, education, and preservation of the environment, and as patron of the arts.” (In 2008, Wyss... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
yin and yang between the improvement of the built environment and the preservation of nature,” says Rosenfeld, a member of the California advisory board The Trust for Public Land. “I’d like to think we’re protecting the natural world... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
Katy Prairie Conservancy’s goal of preserving and restoring prairie lands west of the city. The prairie land absorbs large amounts of water, providing natural water management... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
eleven responses and landed three interviews. “It was,” she says, “a searing experience because I felt it was totally directed at women.” Two job offers came from government — OMB and Defense — but Cohen opted for a private-sector... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
issues, and basic survival needs. You need to be able to show people how preserving the environment can help them economically. For example, we created a buffer zone around a national forest by establishing an "extractive reserve." We... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
1984) The Nature Conservancy Worldwide locations A charitable environmental organization that works to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Tapping into a sustainable enterprise that provides income for indigenous Mexican families
Fredo Arias-King (MBA 1996, AM 1998) helps indigenous forest dwellers and their families in central Mexico stay on their land and thrive financially while also safeguarding their local environment. As founder of Green and Tapped... View Details