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- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
are in what Crutzen terms the Anthropocene epoch. It is one dominated by the impact of humans on the earth’s environment through such things as the rivers we dam, the things we burn and consume, the way we use land, and the materials such as View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
address plastic waste, conserve water resources and more. As more companies develop their climate strategies and implement projects, the question is not “will there be a job in climate for me” but “is this the climate job I find... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
range of new applications in food and medicine. (Los Angeles Times/Getty Images) Having cracked the problem of boosting oil production, engineering algae to make petrochemicals ranging from fertilizers to plastics ought to be relatively... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
markets, mobile money is designed to leapfrog plastic by going from cash directly to digital. Because the global economy is increasingly digital, billions of cash-based buyers and sellers are currently excluded from global commerce. These... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen, the family-owned company grew over the decades, moving from wooden toys to plastic "bricks," the building blocks of its construction sets. The products are designed around play themes such... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
address plastic waste, conserve water resources and more. As more companies develop their climate strategies and implement projects, the question is not “will there be a job in climate for me” but “is this the climate job I find... 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
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
Turmeric is prepared into medicine. Doucefleur In the early 1990s, an Indian plastic surgeon at the University of Mississippi, S. K. Das, was about to amputate the leg of a patient because of a wound that wouldn’t heal. Colleague Hari P.... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
consider that a realistic solution. Instead, they are currently focusing on a project replacing the current plastic materials used in the injection devices (e.g., the injection pen casing) with bioplastic to allow the injection devices to... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
is extremely impractical, especially when everything comes in plastic and sometimes that's really useful for hygiene. But there are certain ways that are new and different that we can think about reducing our waste, given the fact that... View Details
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
smile. ZMET, which is patented, grew out of his interests in anthropology, photography and cognitive neuroscience. It was sparked, in part, by a trip to Nepal and India ten years ago. On his travels, he presented villagers with plastic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
eroding quality of life mostly for the poor, and draining natural resources. This project explored ways to grow Wecyclers (a Nigerian plastics recyclable collection company) by analyzing the economic viability of a Collections Agent... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
Boston's Legal Sea Foods restaurant chain, where he met his future partner, Christopher Nessen. A production chef at the company, Nessen provided the culinary and technical expertise for Kettle Cuisine. He was well acquainted with the process of preparing foods,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
did something good for the environment, so you can have a cookie.” New experimental research shows that shoppers are more likely to buy virtuous organic items when they bring their own reusable bags to the store than when they opt for paper or View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
Later known as K-Dow Petrochemicals, it would be one of the largest manufacturers of chemicals and plastics in the world. Analysts widely hailed the planned joint venture as a game-changing deal for both companies. Shortly after the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne