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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
accessibility—business leaders can deliver triple bottom line impact. Business Opportunity. Today, two billion people—one in three—lack access to safe water and a toilet. COVID has accelerated demand for these services. Opportunity abounds in water and View Details
- 07 Nov 2018
- News
A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis
Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch (MBA 1992) is president of Water.org, a Kansas City–based nonprofit dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to the world through market-driven initiatives. In this interview she discusses the way the... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In the first of a weekly series of Skydeck episodes honoring recipients of the 2022 Alumni Achievement Award, finance veteran Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982) talks about her second act as chairman and founder... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
talented professionals across the world to help evaluate and support these interventions. Over the past 10 years, ADP has funded more than 50 promising nonprofits to transform hundreds of thousands of lives by building schools, clinics, biogas plants, and drinking... View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- News
2022 Alumni Achievement Awards Announced
Kidwai (MBA 1982) Former Executive Director, Board of HSBC Asia Pacific; Former Chairman, HSBC India; Founder and Chairman, India Sanitation Coalition Robert L. Ryan (MBA 1970) Retired Senior VP and CFO, Medtronic Inc. Robert B. Wilson... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
and cofounder of Cleanacwa, a nonprofit that works on water and sanitation in his homeland. Consistent with his focus on helping Africa manage its challenges and capitalize on its strengths, Delle is also supporting HBS’s Global... View Details
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Alexandra Stanek
passion, a call to service. Can business make a difference? I believe it can. I took my HBS summer internship in Nairobi with Sanergy, a hybrid for-profit/nonprofit company that’s developing a sanitation system practical for shanty towns.... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis
dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to the world through market-driven initiatives such as household-level financing. INTO THE LIGHTNicole Poindexter (MBA 1997), cofounder and CEO of Energicity, is combating “energy... View Details
- Profile
Alice Yang
sanitation projects. Putting together the pieces “By attending both schools,” Alice says, “increasingly, I see how the pieces fit together. Engineers, teachers, doctors, policymakers, businesspeople – everyone has a role to play. I want... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Jill Applebaum (MBA 2015)
phone clean. I tried using hand sanitizer on my iPhone, which completely ruined the speaker—which was upsetting at the time but also helped inspire a better solution. “At HBS, I met Jillian Ressler (MBA 2015), who worked as a first-grade... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” Goodwin-Groen offers the example of a mother who has to pay for her children’s schooling once each semester. She needs to save money for several... View Details
- 10 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis
access to basic sanitation.” This stark reality demonstrates an urgent need for action in order to make meaningful progress towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 6 of reaching universal access to drinking water, sanitation and... View Details
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
Goals. Whether it’s improvements in sanitation or health or education, it starts with a payment system everyone can use.” The Better Than Cash Alliance advocates for this type of digital financial inclusion, provides guidance to... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
Development at the Base of the Pyramid" explores a 2012 sanitation initiative in which Indian Union Minister Jairam Ramesh advised women not to marry men whose houses lacked toilets. (As of the 2011 census, only half of households in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
water bottle that marries fashion and function.” The company donates 10% of sales to WaterAid, a 501(c)(3) organization that improves access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest communities in Africa and Asia. Find... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
and hand sanitizer to every household in the city of Chelsea. We’re staffing a hotel that the cities of Chelsea and Revere have rented for people who need to be quarantined, and we’re providing medical and nursing care there. We are doing... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Syngenta Tomato Vision
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of their Immersive Field Course... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
were clearly the ones in need. "With all the self-confidence of a 22-year-old," she remembers, "I persuaded the agency to use its money to provide the slums with water, sanitation systems, and electricity and to create enterprises that... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
months of the pandemic writing about marketplace design tactics that could provide support—for example, by leveraging delivery marketplaces to bring food to the elderly or by distributing hand sanitizer more equitably. Kominers joined... View Details