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- 09 Jan 2014
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Tapping into Opportunity
increased its water efficiency by 21.4 percent between 2004 and 2012, recently announced a new initiative to increase that efficiency by another 25 percent. Or look at another example: extracting shale gas... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
expertise in various parts of a complex supply chain and high efficiency (to keep lead times down and costs manageable). But that is valuable precisely because it is difficult and thus very hard to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
in emissions is enVerid’s Sorbent Ventilation Technology. Commercial buildings contribute 17 percent of US carbon emissions, and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) is responsible for 36 percent of commercial-building energy intensity. This is why... View Details
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
are putting those satellites up there that will benefit directly or other third parties that could rise from that is one thing we could look at. The cost of access to space though is really the key thing. Hanna: And you were involved in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Palo Alto, CA Business management software, solutions, and services Lionel Bony (MBA 2006) Rocky Mountain Institute Snowmass and Boulder, CO Nonprofit research and educational foundation aiming to foster efficient and sustainable use of... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
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Forward Thinking
You can ask the internet anything, but getting an answer via generative artificial intelligence consumes about 10 times more electricity than a traditional Google search. Consequently, the data centers where AI tools are trained and run are guzzling more and more... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?
his role, given the stakes. “All of the fare increases in the world and all of the efficiencies in the world don’t get you to solving that,” said James A. Aloisi, who was transportation secretary under Governor Deval Patrick. “So the big... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
contributions. “Similarly to how the internet and web browsers dramatically reduced the marginal cost of information sharing,” they write, “AI may also be lowering the costs associated with human thinking... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Jan 2016
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Helping Property Owners Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
water and energy efficiency in their buildings so they can reduce the carbon footprint that they are causing. We found that many of our customers implement new clean technology to reduce energy cost and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
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Tipping Point
debut in Target and Fresh Market stores. Kahawa 1893 is experimenting with using blockchain for transparency in the tipping process. It also is exploring whether cryptocurrency might allow for more efficient tipping in a cafe setting. The... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
cost something on the order of $5 billion, not the $5 million one might expect for a typical start-up,” Esty explains. And all too often, he adds, they can turn out to be losing propositions. The managerial challenge is to make sure that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
New Ventures by Jon Burgstone (MBA 1999) and Bill Murphy Jr. (Farallon Publishing) The authors explain the key common strategies and tactics used by some of today’s most extraordinary entrepreneurs and offer a seven-step framework for the View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
Africa’s largest oil- producing country, has expensive and unreliable energy. Whether it is lines for automobile and generator fuels or blackouts of the electricity grid, Nigeria is a perfect example of a country that cannot afford to do without View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
increases only modestly. The traditional face of the industry has changed, with "full-service" agency-client relationships giving way to cost cutting, streamlining, and consolidation. Outright alternatives to advertising - including... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
are enormous obstacles, with cataract surgery costing between 18,000 to 30,000 pesos (about $1,000–$1,500 USD) in private institutions. Founded in 2011 by engineers Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, salauno helped more than 150,000... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
and for investors, who’ve sent water-related stocks soaring 113 percent over the last five years. As replacement costs for old facilities and equipment combine with increasingly stringent and expensive regulations, more and more... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
needs. That took me a long time to understand, and it cost me a lot of money. It is why I believe what I believe. I don't want to repeat mistakes." Dumon is more than someone with a formulaic approach to designing new products. He has... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
A new alumni-backed venture hopes robots will change how we buy our milk, bread, and eggs. In early 2016, José Vicente Aguerrevere (MBA 2002) attended a talk at HBS by Mick Mountz (MBA 1996), founder of Kiva Systems. Kiva’s small, mobile warehouse robots had brought... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs