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- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
life so that they could print expiration dates on the packages. It turned out the greens lasted only a few days in fiber-based packaging as compared with two weeks or longer in plastic. The fiber acted as a desiccant, drying out the... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
A Clean Start
chemical (a substance used as a building block for other chemicals) from carbon dioxide. After four months of weighing alternatives, he settled on formic acid: a commodity chemical and energy-rich electrofuel, or carbon-neutral synthetic... View Details
- Portrait Project
Aaron Chadbourne
Yiayia. Although the fresh native produce at her roadside vegetable stand was among the finest in the area, customers were largely attracted by her theatrical flair and infectious enthusiasm. Waving her hands in the air, she would brandish an ear of corn, peeling back... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind
without going all the way out to sea. We also met with a European utility company that is building a green hydrogen plant near these turbines. This new facility will soon take electricity generated by the... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
venues. The development, an adaptive reuse of a school building and former Jewish synagogue, received statewide recognition for incorporating the highest standards for green buildings, an energy microgrid,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
A Day in the Life as a ‘Spreadsheet Ranger’
overseeing all divisions and external relationships. We chat with him about logistics for our river trip tomorrow. The Green River is one of the two main river systems that run through the middle of Dinosaur’s 200,000-acre park and the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades
the nearby Spangler Center, a small green tent on the grounds of the School took on symbolic importance for students and other members of the HBS community last February. The two-person tent was pitched by the HBS Armed Forces Alumni... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
problems. Supply chains will be disrupted. There will be new conflicts over water, resources, and human migration. The very physical integrity of factories and buildings will be threatened. So what can businesses do? For most firms,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
paper to the ground as quickly as we have. Designing and building modular shelters accommodating over 200 homeless people in Delhi and influencing the World Bank project to take into consideration housing design and safety when financing... View Details
- Profile
Gordon Ross
area with a horrendous natural disaster where major things went wrong. Yet I’ve never met so many positive, optimistic people. New Orleans is an advertisement for the human spirit and how it can pull you through.” Managing a different kind of View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
the campaign to make India open-defecation-free connects with a growing trend in green finance. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Naina, when you were leading HSBC, you had the opportunity to represent the bank at conferences, touching on issues... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
The groves of academe are fields rich with possibilities for memorial naming, from entire campuses and buildings to individual benches. HBS has honored individuals and groups of people by putting their names not only to View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Back to School
school, which was long on tradition and rather short on market analysis, how to build its brand, think about the school as a business, and use the admissions process as a competitive advantage. “It goes back to what you learn in... View Details
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
run a factory on that? A hospital? Or any business, really?” asks Chidalu. (00:53) Chidalu was determined to empower those being left behind in the push toward a sustainable future. “So I started delving deep into that and researching renewables and finding out how we... View Details
- 31 May 2013
- News
Seeing the Light
Opal, moved to New Hampshire, where Opal opened an art gallery. When Evans's work, some of which was on display in the gallery, began outselling that of the other artists, the Evanses decided to decamp to Woodstock, Vermont, where they purchased the prestigious Gallery... View Details
- Portrait Project
Rick Ambrust
still have work to do here. The freedom to fail will allow me to take chances, to enjoy who I am, to build that scuba shop at some point, to be a drummer in a band, to proudly wear my cheesehead in public.1 In fact, if I ever think I am... View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
Vacuum is commercializing technology developed at Harvard that mimics the ocean's natural process of absorbing C02 using renewable electricity. Click Here to Watch Alumni Track Winner: FleetZeroSteven Henderson, MBA 2016Fleetzero is View Details
- 17 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
6 Things to Know About Sustainability at HBS
Sustainability is a core value at HBS, and we endeavor to build a healthier, more sustainable, and inclusive community. We know that environmental sustainability is of growing interest to our student community and teamed up with the HBS... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
companies, on communities, and, most of all, on employees. "The initial drive was to build empathy around the decisions that are so core on a human level," Sucher says. "They wanted people to learn about that." View Details