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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping India’s energy crisis, one bulb at a time
new project, with section mate Andrew Schwaitzberg (MBA 2014), aims to replace conventional streetlamps with LED lamps for free in return for 80 percent of the cost-savings over eight years. Yarlagadda and Schwaitzberg are working with Nashik View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
Weiss, the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice. That’s the premise of his new book, We the Possibility, which encourages governments to think like startups. For Weiss, who served as chief of staff to Boston’s mayor and launched one of the first View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
financial assistance from classroom to career. SUPPORTING STUDENTS Her role as senior advisor in the Detroit Mayor’s office is Mendu’s first experience in municipal government, but she has long embraced activism for social change. Before... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
for-profit, or “investor-owned,” entities, with the remaining 85 percent operated by municipalities themselves, the Environmental Protection Agency says that the U.S. water industry needs $500 billion of infrastructure investment over the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
Agricola Aritzia, a leading Chilean poultry producer that formed a partnership with Corporación Municipal de Melipilla, a public health and education nonprofit. “When companies engage in cross-sector partnerships, they reap unsuspected... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
project or triplicate this project in other settlements in the region.” He has also begun to talk to potential local partners in the region, too, including the local municipality and a women’s cooperative. The two-phase project, Bermek... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
the waste management industry in Lebanon was rife with corruption. Securing municipal contracts required the payment of bribes, something Abi Chaker refused to do. “We took a firm decision that under no circumstances would we engage in... View Details
- 25 Mar 2018
- News
Modernizing Infrastructure Management
In this interview, Joseph Heieck (MBA 2014), CEO and President of gWorks, describes how his company makes it easier for municipalities to track their infrastructure needs—and stay resilient. “I was in the Navy for a long time, but I am... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Scharfman’s case, that help came recently in the form of $2.8 million in public funds to upgrade the municipal treatment plant both for Reeseville’s purposes and to treat Specialty Cheese’s effluent. Wisconsin governor Scott Walker... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
had to often teach municipalities how to receive federal funding and use the funding efficiently. In 2022, a lot of what needs to happen with the IRA has to do with enabling and scaling and commercializing early-stage technologies and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
QUEZON CITY, THE PHILIPPINES: On the edge of this municipality of Manila lies the Payatas dumpsite, the home and sole provider to thousands of scavengers. Payatas and places like it are symbols of a glaring inefficiency: Amid the global... View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
by his business experience and prior service as board chair of both the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam and The Hague Municipal Museum. “As a private museum, we don’t get government funding,” he notes. “It’s a lot like running... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
Shanghai municipal government, Netcom is putting up a stiff challenge to three other government-controlled telecom network operators. Tian, who holds a doctorate in environmental management from Texas Tech University, is bringing a new... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
e-waste accounts for only 2 percent of the trash in American landfills, it is responsible for 70 percent of toxic waste and is the fastest-growing municipal waste stream in the United States. Currently, most e-recycling is done in a very... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
methane, municipal solid waste, and waste heat, and stabilizing or offsetting greenhouse gas emissions. "NEES's continuing commitment to conservation is part of an overall environmental strategy to reduce our net air emissions by 45... View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
podcasts and fitness content, for all Tinder members in India. In addition to these efforts, the HBS Club of India has provided funding for a research study by the Foundation of Medical Research (FMR) in collaboration with the Municipal... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Boston’s Sasaki Associates, however, Mawilmada was restless. It’s probably his grandfather’s fault. A member of the municipal council in Kandy, Loku Banda Mawilmada was responsible for a number of local improvements, including a school, a... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
municipalities in the country. Likewise, we led the distribution of our local vitamin C-rich drinks to health workers in more than 80 hospitals. NutriAsia also distributed over 60,000 face masks across the Philippines to aid our trade... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
of Weiss, who, prior to HBS, helped shape Boston’s municipal innovation strategy while serving as chief of staff to former Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, a position he assumed after working in Menino’s office as an HBS Leadership Fellow. “We... View Details