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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BioMine (now BlueOak), which won the 2011 HBS Alumni New Venture Competition. The competition's judges were struck by the company's smart business plan and how it addressed a very great need. According to the EPA, in 2007 an estimated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
independent strategy and marketing consultant. In that time, approximately 550 CAP volunteers have donated nearly $7 million in consulting services. This year alone, fourteen teams of HBS alumni will donate an estimated $1.1 million in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
Image by Martin Leon Barreto In 2021, while the pandemic was amplifying social inequities and climate catastrophes, investors were busy pouring more money than ever into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments: In the United States alone, an View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
estimated 75 percent of annual rainfall, says Charlie Sinkler, whose Somerville, Massachusetts, firm, Apex Green Roofs, installed all the components of the system. Collectively, green roofs in urban settings can help reduce storm-water... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
their strategy in response to the unexpected influx of women to the Web - an audience estimated to reach seventy million by the year 2000. "Women tend to browse less randomly than men, don't like to compartmentalize home, work, and... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
Above: photo by Sarah Frankie Linder Vinyl is back. The once-anachronistic segment of the music industry was on target for its seventh straight year of double-digit growth in 2017, according to a Deloitte Global forecast, selling an View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
study that estimates a total economic value for the parks, including the annual amount a participant was willing to pay to prevent the loss of 20 percent of US National Parks and programs. (A series of focus groups determined that most... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
census takers in Watford City, North Dakota—in the far west of the state, 50 miles from the Montana border—counted 1,435 people. Today, that number is estimated to be at least 10,000. A familiar fuel for American boomtowns fed the rapid... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
connected and on task throughout the day. Here, the agenda is less structured. Most villagers survive on sales of handmade rugs and subsistence farming. But there’s also a tension in the village between a communal way of life and external pressures. With an View Details
- 11 Jul 2025
- News
Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast
estimated that the annual losses to the economy if these industries shut down would be between $1.5 and $2 billion. In addition, if water levels are not restored, there would also be serious ecological costs, including impacts on... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
Department estimates that 99.9 percent of the criminal money presented for deposit in the United States is accepted into secure accounts. It's a sad fact, but American banks, under an umbrella of conflicting American laws and policies,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
visitors in their tracks. “I wonder if I should turn him down a little,” Hustead muses. As president of Wall Drug in Wall, South Dakota, Hustead ponders this and many other details of a 76,000-square-foot roadside attraction, not far from Interstate 90, that annually... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
New Magazine Makes Its Mark
successful to date has been the effort to sign up public libraries, with roughly 20 percent of the nation’s 9,000 libraries carrying Bookmarks. Still on the horizon is the tantalizing prospect of marketing directly to members of an View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
Africa, consumer spending is estimated to reach US$1.4 trillion by that date. Maybe that global big picture is another good reason why the irrepressible Mittal is smiling these days. View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
Yet Hudson couldn’t stop thinking about the opportunity. The problem of homelessness in Miami-Dade had improved over the previous two decades. In 1996, there were an estimated 8,000 people in the area without stable housing (a figure that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Turning Point: Living History
with the division of British-ruled India into two independent countries: Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. It resulted in the displacement of an estimated 15 million people and the deaths of hundreds of thousands—some... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition
market transformation in Sri Lanka. The YSP leadership team, comprising entirely of US-trained Sri Lankans, is united by a passion to support the country's post-conflict resurgence. While the investment banking market opportunity is View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
percent of 2005 emissions. Importantly, the IRA, IIJA, and CHIPS Act together represent a return to industrial policy in the US, with significant direct investments and incentives for the onshoring of manufacturing and critical supply chains. An View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Bezos’s Blue Origin was still three years away from launching its first test vehicle. Today, Morgan Stanley estimates that the global space economy is worth $350 billion—and projects that it will grow to $1 trillion by 2040. Garriott de... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
meanwhile, climbed from $16.2 billion to $33 billion in that same period, riding the GLP-1 wave. Novo Nordisk’s valuation has shot up to almost $600 billion, which is more than the entire Danish GDP. And the top of the curve is still out of view: The World Health... View Details