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- 01 Sep 2024
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 01 Jun 2022
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The Science and Economics of Carbon Recycling
- 24 Apr 2014
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Mining precious metals through e-waste recycling
Every day, Americans throw away enough cell phones to cover a football field. That kind of disturbing statistic is what motivates Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) to extract precious metals from the 50 million tons of electronics discarded, globally, each year. She saw an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BRADOO: Mining old tech for gold by Constantine von Hoffman When most people's phones break, all they see is a problem. Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) sees an opportunity. Bradoo is the cofounder and CEO of BlueOak Resources, a company dedicated to finding safe ways to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
cholera was a waterborne disease, so he went looking for the root cause and found a canal system gridlocked with plastic garbage. Much of the plastic he found in the canals and on the beaches was recyclable, so he spent the next four years scaling a View Details
- 17 May 2017
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Can psychology influence the way we recycle?
- 15 Nov 2013
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Getting the green light
- 29 Jun 2010
- News
Cash for Clunkers: A Retrospective
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
resellers, while 35 percent become feedstock for companies making recycled products—old wool sweaters become new ones, or last year’s fashions become tomorrow’s couch-cushion stu ng. The market for recycled... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
rate—the amount of waste that it recycles and composts—has for years lingered below 18 percent, a fraction of what some other major American cities have achieved. And DSNY has been slow to adopt tools such as rat-proof containers and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
chain of custody certification, provide documented traceability so manufacturers, brands, and companies can trust the quality and the origin of the material they are using. Goodwin previously worked on ocean plastic issues as cofounder and CEO of Executives Without... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
then to Harvard for your MBA. Was biotech always in your career plan? In college, I set up an ambulance service in Saint Lucia. Then, during medical school, I started an organization that recycled medical equipment and donated it to the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection
of trying it, breaking it, and making it better. We’re about 10 years into that now. We’re working with this new material, which is called yulex, and now many other surf companies are using it. We’ve actually got it to the point where it really works, and now we have... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
Increase waste recycling in general. And, finally, focus on capturing the energy generated when decades-old trash decomposes. Public policy is a big factor in making a lot of this happen, Jackman points out. For starters, you have to make... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
largest fortune belongs to an electric car, space, solar, peer-to-peer finance, and infrastructure entrepreneur. He got there by working on things that matter. Hopefully soon we’ll be saying that she got there by scaling portable nuclear power, or biological plastics,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
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Kresge’s Afterlife
Illustration by David Plunkert Alumni looking to reminisce about Kresge Hall might want to book a trip to Jamaica. That was one of the destinations for the 50 truckloads of household and office goods that HBS donated to non-profits as part of its View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 Feb 2020
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Beyond the Plastisphere
global production of plastic packaging is on course to quadruple by 2050—no amount of conventional recycling will get us out of this mess. Instead, experts say we need to improve our mopping-up efforts through recycling, upcycling, and... View Details
- 16 Feb 2023
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Clearing the Air
(MBA 2019) Jonas Lee (MBA 1993) Meghan Kenny (MBA 2019) Jonas Lee (MBA 1993) Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains Scaling carbon capture in Southwest Wyoming Photo credits: Meghan Kenny; Jonas Lee Todd Brix (MBA 1997) Todd Brix (MBA 1997) Carbon's Second Act A startup... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
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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
- 25 Apr 2014
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Finding sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises
market-based solutions to difficult problems. "Business can be the greatest force for good on this planet," says Goodwin. Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, he led the establishment of a nationwide recycling program that currently... View Details