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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Insurance, 1945–1970 Harold J. Hudson, Jr. General Reinsurance Corporation, 1971–1983 Joseph L. Hudson Hudson (J. L.) Company, 1881–1912 Howard R. Hughes, Jr. Hughes Aircraft Company, 1933–1976 George A. Hughes Hughes Electric Heating... View Details
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Podcast - Business & Environment
Addict TuneIn Pandora Audacy Deezer JioSaavn 18 Jun 2025 Climate Rising Closing the Loop by Recycling Apparel: Reju CEO Patrik Frisk Patrik Frisk, CEO of ReJu, joins Climate Rising to discuss his company’s mission to recycle textile waste... View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- What Do You Think?
What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?
leaders in this one. It leads to a syndrome of always preparing for the last Black Swan, a somewhat chimerical chase in search of the nonexistent. But stick with me while I throw some candidate lessons into the pot. For example, think of all the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
critical battery materials for the energy transition. They have developed an electro-extraction technology that saves up to 90% carbon emissions relative to traditional refining technologies. The technology has a small footprint that can be easily scaled with modular... View Details
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Business History - Faculty & Research
from a post-genocide recovery effort to one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies presents a compelling case for investors and business leaders. With an ambitious Vision 2050 strategy, Kigali has emerged as a regional hub for trade,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
generally. There are potentially even greater savings to be realized in improving building efficiency, he notes, through energy audits, retrofits, and smart building software (the DOE estimates energy waste in the average US commercial... View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
example, students recently worked with a Chinese solid waste recovery and recycling company to develop a service to encourage customers to recycle their cell phones and other electronics. Other students... View Details
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Climate Impact - Business & Environment
solutions with an initial focus on industrial heat for hard-to-abate sectors.” Charley Cummings MBA 2011 | President & CEO, Walden Mutual Bank “Walden Mutual is an online bank that is helping to build a more vibrant and sustainable local... View Details
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Wyss House | About
LEED –NC Gold certification. Green construction highlights include 100 percent of electricity usage offset by Renewable Energy Certificates; 41 percent reduction in domestic water use; 96 percent of construction and demolition waste... View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
new type of oil into their system. System thinking and collaborations: Lastly, we saw how systems-level thinking can make these business models more feasible. For example, their first facility (Empyro) was built by BTG Bioliquids and is operated by Twence, a View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
Use this period as an opportunity to take stock of your own life. Does your work reflect your values? Have you let some important relationships languish? Did you give up on a dream too soon? You're not going to be a good business leader unless you know how to lead... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
change in the presentation?" "Nothing like that. We're experiencing an outage this morning, for about the last forty minutes. Customer Service is down. None of the call center systems are working, and the Web site is locked up." "Oh. Damn. I assume... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
root cause. Get ready for the long haul. Never waste a good crisis. You're in the spotlight: follow your True North. Go on offense: focus on winning now. "Leaders must also remember that they are in the spotlight during a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
achieving the complete elimination of all waste in pursuit of the most efficient methods.” The system is based on two principles: automation with a human touch, and each process producing only what is needed for the next process in a... View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
The Power of Business in the Energy Transition
alongside recovery and recycling of minerals out of these existing waste streams, presenting opportunities for those willing to take a long-term view of value. The day closed with a case competition... View Details
- 06 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities
India. Material Recovery Facility (MRF), Mumbai Today, over 10 million tons of plastic waste is generated annually in India and that figure is expected to double in the next two decades due to development,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jacquie Sandberg
laughter filled recovery rooms and echoed from hospital hallways. Together we transformed tear-streaked cheeks from a symptom of grief to the mark of a particularly winning joke. My metric has changed, and the lesson didn't come cheaply.... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
bioavailability. When asked if Novo Nordisk thinks there could be developments to advance NovoNorm to a point of overtaking all direct injection delivery methods to eliminate the syringes that become waste after being used, our site host... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories
Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP. Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
pounds of food that had been prepared for customers in the catering, hotel, travel, and restaurant industries got stuck in the supply chain when the world seized up. That’s when Philip Behn (MBA 2005), CEO of Imperfect Foods, jumped into View Details