Water - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jul 2025
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Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast

Utah Alumni Explore Future of Great Salt Lake The HBS Club of Utah recently got an insider’s look at the economic and ecological health of the Great Salt Lake (GSL) with a presentation by Utah’s first GSL commissioner, Brian Steed, at the headquarters of Traeger Grills... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Water: management strategy in agriculture

Where to find information on water management strategies in agriculture? GeoRef is a database by the American Geological Institute. It provides studies on the topic from various publications including maps and conference papers. You... View Details

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Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment

School Juan Pablo Del Valle HBS MBA 2001 Chairman of the Board, Orbia “In an era of climate change, one of the greatest challenges of sustainable urbanization is managing the efficiency of water systems. At Orbia, we are striving to make... View Details

20 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 20

in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and in subsidiaries in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, France, India, and the United States. Investment versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about the Argentine Water Privatization Authors:Rafael Di Tella,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2005
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Desert Dust-Up

Simmons Photo Courtesy Simmons & Co. INTL. Oil and water don’t mix. That truism about elements at odds could also serve as an analogy for Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67), who’s sometimes known as a petroleum-industry contrarian. But it’s the... View Details

Keywords: Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Jamal Motlagh

From an early age, Jamal Motlagh was immersed in the figurative waters of business – his father is a civil engineer who successfully launched his own firm – and in literal water itself. "I've been... View Details

02 Nov 2020
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2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Tyler Teykl (MBA 2017)

beauty of HBS is that it puts you into the alumni network where there is never a cold call. What is the most inspiring/exciting project you’ve worked on? The summer prior to entering my RC year, my wife, Shannon, and I traveled into rural Nicaragua with Living View Details

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Courtney Fairbrother

campus. Prior to working at Harvard, Courtney worked in both the private and public sector on renewable energy policy, implementation, and development for agencies such as the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority and Rocky Mountain... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Clean Technology; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Government

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Virtual Campus Tour | MBA

alumni weddings, intimate music concerts, and quiet contemplation. Water Garden. The enclosed water garden is deigned as a restful space for quiet contemplation. Sanctuary. The simply furnished central... View Details

Portrait Project

Clint Lawrence

I peek over the edge. I can no longer see the white sand of the sea bed. Without hesitation, I jump into the deep blue Caribbean water and swim to shore. I am five years old and my dad is standing on Paradise Beach, shocked but proud. His... View Details

19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues

residents with tangible results: When a BOS:311 app user posts a photo of a downed tree limb, for example, the responding public works team often adds a photo of the clean street as well as the workers. “It closes the loop,” she says, “and allows us to reengage with... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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Jennifer Kelly

made a difference by working through grassroots organizations; I saw ways businesses could contribute that were not dependent on donations." As an example, Jennifer refers to the Manila Water Company. "They found a way to lower... View Details

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Frances Dixon

independent research project on water technologies. “I’m interested in private sector solutions. There are a couple of Boston startups that are investigating new technologies for filtering water or... View Details

26 Sep 2018
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Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure

the world that has benefited everything from lemurs in Madagascar to sage grouse habitats of Wyoming, forests in New England to water quality on the Rappahannock River. Such efforts have also a spurred significant innovation in financing... View Details

Keywords: April White

24 Apr 2014
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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

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Paul Scharfman

created jobs and improved his community’s water system. Focusing on efficiencies to fuel growth and create jobs, Scharfman’s Specialty Cheese has doubled its workforce to 100 people over the past five years. By partnering with government... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Retail

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

could teach the richest nation on earth about how to finance infrastructure. But, there are important lessons in multiple examples of roads, power, ports, and water projects that actually get built, thanks to successful funding models.... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

24 Apr 2014
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A lifelong mission to save the oceans

a big toe in the water because the river was, at that time, a chemical and organic cesspool,” he remembers. Today, Merkl is helping to shift environmental thinking with initiatives that balance conservation with business acumen: “We know... View Details

20 Jan 2011
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Oil Spill Solution

that has proven effective in pollutant absorption both above and beneath the surface of water. Smith has been working closely with fishermen in the Gulf area to help rid the affected waters of the propylene glycol (a chemical found in... View Details

Portrait Project

Mike Contillo

I called it magic water. My parents separated when I was young. I spent a lot of time with my grandfather. Each morning, he boiled tap water, which he chilled overnight in a glass carafe. Each afternoon, he poured two glasses of magic View Details

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