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- 2011
- Working Paper
Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting
By: Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari and Marco Piovesan
This paper examines whether monetary incentives are an effective tool for increasing domestic waste sorting. We exploit the exogenous variation in the pricing systems experienced during the 1999-2008 decade by the 95 municipalities in the district of Treviso (Italy).... View Details
Keywords: Household; Cost Management; Consumer Behavior; Wastes and Waste Processing; Motivation and Incentives; Public Administration Industry; Italy
Bucciol, Alessandro, Natalia Montinari, and Marco Piovesan. "Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-093, March 2011.
- 05 Sep 2018
- News
Asia's waste management failures reach crisis levels
- 19 Jan 2014
- News
Never Waste a Good Recession
- June 1993
- Teaching Note
New Jersey Solid Waste Crisis, Teaching Note
- 06 Apr 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
- 17 Oct 2016
- News
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
- August 2012
- Teaching Note
Sound Group China: Urban Waste Entrepreneurs (TN)
By: John D. Macomber and Phillip Andrews
- 21 Dec 2011
- News
Are You Wasting Your Most Valuable Asset?
- January 1995
- Teaching Note
Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk (TN)
Teaching Note for (9-793-044). View Details
- 1982
- Other Unpublished Work
Financing the Cleanup of Uncontrolled Hazardous Waste Sites
By: Dutch Leonard, Henry Lee and Susan Bender
- 1979
- Chapter
Advertising Waste and Consumer Protection: Issues for Policymakers and Practitioners
By: J. Quelch and M. Pearce
- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power Episode 7 of Climate Stories focuses on Janice Tran and her first two years as CEO and co-founder of Kanin Energy.... View Details
- 30 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration
a 10-minute drive from the city center, but it was hard to tell that we were walking within a live waste incinerator once we arrived. The entire process is highly automated, View Details
- 2012
- Chapter
Capitalizing Expectations: Veblen on Consumption, Crises, and the Utility of Waste
Reinert, Sophus A. "Capitalizing Expectations: Veblen on Consumption, Crises, and the Utility of Waste." Chap. 16 in Thorstein Veblen: Economics for an Age of Crises, edited by Erik S. Reinert and Francesca Lidia Viano, 329–352. London: Anthem Press, 2012.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power to change nuclear waste into cost-efficient energy
Entrepreneur Russell Wilcox (AB 1989, MBA 1995) envisions creating clean energy from the world’s stockpiles of nuclear waste at a price cheaper than coal. He is building Transatomic Power, a startup based on innovative MIT technology that... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
entrepreneur’s Flashfood app at a Toronto supermarket hadn’t gone well, ending with confusion among customers and ire from the store manager. But Domingues, who had launched the app after learning that international food View Details
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
and lift the waste into the incinerator. The two incinerators can process up to 42 tons per hour at temperatures as high as 1,100°C (2000°F). The exhaust stream reaches twin... View Details
- 11 Jun 2015
- News