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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
Nova Scotia native Greg Murray divides his time between a town house in Halifax’s city center and Athol Farms, a 400-acre cattle ranch on the Northumberland Strait. A longtime entrepreneur, his latest venture, the Clean Air & Water... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Reunions to Remember
Once again the early days of June brought hundreds of alumni back to Soldiers Field to reconnect with familiar faces, make some new friends, get a close-up view of the newest developments on campus, and catch up on the latest research by HBS faculty members. Hailing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
atmosphere. We set the bar at nature. Plants breathe in carbon dioxide, and they extract water from the soil to make a variety of molecules. But then when the plant dies, carbon dioxide is inevitably released. It’s a circular carbon... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
immediately became a bestseller, with total sales exceeding 1 million copies by mid-1964. Often credited with kick-starting a range of governmental actions in the United States and abroad, including the Clean Water Act and the founding of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
employees and from a variety of outside parties. We have, of necessity, been continuously involved at all levels, from setting and implementing strategy for the college and its place in Bhutan to negotiating contracts, hiring, updating IT systems, and overseeing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
shipping. In addition, algae can grow in salty or brackish water under extremely harsh conditions; so unlike other biofuel feedstocks such as corn and soy, algae don’t need to compete with agricultural crops for fresh View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Green as Gold
now achieve a 30 percent reduction in water usage. Sensors conserve electricity by automatically reducing interior lighting according to the amount of sunlight in a room. New bureaus, desks, and bookshelves were constructed from Plyboo, a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
are closer to the batter than the pitcher is. The complex is so close to the water that fans in all manner of floating craft regularly camp out to catch “splash hits” — the official term for home runs that clear the right field wall and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
director Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001)—around how to respond to the government's insistent request, relatively late in the planning process, for increased community services in areas such as education, water and sanitation, and... View Details
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
private-sector industries (e.g., oil and gas, automobiles) and their lobbyists and water carriers in Washington ensured that fledgling alternative-energy industries, perhaps America’s best hope for a manufacturing future, would not get... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
solved without business," added John Macomber. "The need is huge, the demand is huge, and you have to partner." Click here to read an HBS Working Knowledge article on the conference's water and transportation panels:... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
COSCO in the Port of Piraeus. The port, which sits on the sapphire waters of the Saronic Gulf, has been a strategic asset since the 5th century BC. The investment will transform it into the biggest port in Europe and create critically... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
silence, and water of the impossibly clear, sapphire blue seen only in postcards . . . unless one is fortunate enough to be a visitor to Turtle Island, Fiji. (Turtle Island's Web Site) Better yet, dispense with the idea of a mere vacation... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
1987) and Gary Grossman Beaufort Books Arctic ice is melting, the waters are warming, and Russian President Nicolai Gorshkov is one step closer to monopolizing the oil industry and funding his expansionism plans past Ukraine and Latvia.... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
Hotel Manzana Kempinski La Habana—the city’s first-ever luxury hotel—his morning meetings begin with something much more basic: “How much water do we have in the tanks?” On a sunny April day in the airy second-floor lobby, Benedetti... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
it, by establishing accounting methodologies for the valuation of impacts that a company has on society—e.g., carbon emissions generated, water withdrawal from water-scarce locations, employee wages, job creation in areas of high... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
introducing creative ideas that address endemic problems such as poor access to clean drinking water and electricity, substandard housing, and illiteracy, they are in a position to engender goodwill and influence how the world feels — and... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
his own company building environmentally sustainable live/work projects in New Mexico. “They were high density, they were affordable, and we recycled the water from them,” Wiviott explains. “It just made sense. I mean, my life felt better... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
regulations, in part by helping producers secure public guarantees for financing a $17 million water treatment plant. “That was a success story that saved and created jobs and became the basis of an HBS case,” notes Duch. “Today everyone... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
Beyond the wide-ranging influence TIBCO already enjoys, Ranadivé envisions a "metanetwork" of the future. "There'll be ubiquitous computing," he predicts, "with billions of sensors and microprocessors. For example, your lawn will determine that it's dry, and sprinklers... View Details