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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
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 and created a new profit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
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 Jun 2022
- News
The Science and Economics of Carbon Recycling
- 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
- News
Can psychology influence the way we recycle?
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Getting the green light
- 29 Jun 2010
- News
Cash for Clunkers: A Retrospective
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... 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
- 04 Apr 2024
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The Making of a Medical Milestone
On March 16, doctors at the Massachusetts General Hospital made history when they successfully transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig to a living human. The groundbreaking procedure marked a significant milestone in animal-to-human transplant, or... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
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
- News
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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating a more just and celebrated multicultural world
products are sold at Whole Foods, specialty stores, and online. Endline’s approach to chocolate is “colorful, whimsical, and playful.” The reusable, recyclable tins that serve as sweetriot’s packaging feature artwork submitted by art... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Feedback
building) that would harm the harmony of the campus. —Gaëtan Hannecart (MBA 1994) via LinkedIn Kresge’s Afterlife Re: Campus recycling Great efforts by HBS to recycle this used furniture! Sad to see that... View Details
Keywords: feedback
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
line of upcycled drinking glasses. To acquire the raw materials, the founders identified a partner in the Houston area that had relationships with local bars and restaurants. Now, instead of tossing empties in the municipal recycling... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Going Green at HBS
Ivy is not the only green growing at Harvard, as the University-wide Green Campus Initiative, begun last year, takes hold. At HBS, in areas such as water use, lighting, and cogeneration, smart systems are now saving the School more than $200,000 per year. These... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Advancing the Mission
Growing up in India as the children of government workers, Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) had an innate sense of the inequalities and problems facing their country and an optimism to want to do something about them. Together, the siblings cofounded... View Details