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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial success with social... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Improving Wellness Through Better Nutrition
with volunteer work in environmental causes, gives her a sense that she is “empowering people to make positive changes in their lives. That goal has always been a huge driver for me.” (Published August 2016) View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Raw, Done Well
Times (September 1, 2002) explained, Klein, “who made his fortune in data communications before dropping out to hang with the Grateful Dead and become an environmental advocate, is on the well-heeled vanguard of the hottest (or, in this... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- News
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
says, we're all about building a world that is 'just, humane, and environmentally sustainable.' " On this particular day, the petite, dark-haired Scher is wearing a business suit -- "I'm hosting a public event later today," she explains... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Henderson Named University Professor
chair established in honor of the former HBS Dean and his wife. With an MBA (1985) and a PhD in business economics (1988) from Harvard, Henderson came to the School from MIT in 2009. She cochairs HBS’s Business and Environment Initiative, which seeks to help business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Complete Package
Chong, the founder and CEO of Greenpac, a Singapore-based sustainable packaging company, explains the less expensive choice is also the more environmentally friendly choice, as pine is grown on sustainable tree farms. But she has learned... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
the leadership of Faculty Chair Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. These events are an example of the many ways in which HBS convenes leaders to discuss important issues facing society. “When... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
things done. I also think he realizes that unless the country really changes quickly, his own political future won’t be very bright.” One sign of change was the prime minister’s nomination of Katerina Sakellaropoulou, a high court judge with a progressive View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Creativity from Many Angles
professor Mukti Khaire. “This idea was referred to and expanded upon often throughout the conference.” Khaire noted that the issue of social and environmental concerns and the need to address these problems in a creative manner was also a... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
to his MBA, Ospina has never underestimated the task's overall logistical, political, economic, and environmental complexities. “It’s taken us 20 years to get this far,” he observes, “and it will take at least another 20 to happen.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
CURRAN: "The most important thing I learned is that central planning in such situations doesn't work." Courtesy Dan Curran International relief agencies that raced to aid Indonesia’s tsunami-ravaged Aceh province have a lot to learn from the unique management... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Profit provides answers to these fundamental questions that are increasingly defining the business landscape all around the world. Professor George Serafeim takes readers on a research-driven journey to understand how and why View Details
- 15 Apr 2020
- News
How Sarah Kauss Built S’well
on plastics and climate change—and educating people about the water crisis—it could be really interesting to do something good while doing something good.” Kauss also discussed her environmental motivations in this recent Bulletin, noting... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
as well as reduce the corporate tax rate, a longtime goal of congressional Republicans. The idea was the brainchild of Eacho and George Frampton, a lawyer who worked on environmental issues at Covington & Burling and former View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Books
challenges, from environmental sustainability to improving health-care delivery. Part IV explores how nonprofits and corporations can apply strategy principles to philanthropy. Part V examines the link between strategy and leadership.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Plugged In
pretty surreal," says Camargo. But the day after the show, the reality of the challenge ahead of him remained: How, exactly, do you sell America a high-end electric car? 1. DITCH THE OLD PITCH The first wave of electric vehicles had a dual View Details
- 21 Jan 2021
- News
New Menu
pioneering environmentally friendly food-production technologies. “We are going to solve the world’s biggest challenges by supporting the best entrepreneurs,” Ives believes. “Ultimately it’s not going to be the policy makers, the lawyers,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Business History Gets a Boost
respectively, as faculty chair and as director of the new initiative. In a Business History Review article last spring, Jones and Friedman challenged business historians to tackle big subjects with major importance to the future of business, such as View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
Photo credits: Aaron Sabin; Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. This is the first episode of "Clearing the Air", a three-part series focused on the business of carbon... View Details