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- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
examples drawn from take-back regulations promulgated in Europe, Japan, and the United States governing waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). Download the paper:... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
understand the idea of a market in the first place. Nor was credit available to pay for farm supplies or equipment. Roads and electric power lines, such as they were, served the old collectives, not the new... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
station in San Jose, along with giants like General Electric, Westinghouse, and General Tire. 24 Expanding into cable TV—either by applying for franchises or by acquiring established cable companies—was a View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
Peace Corps volunteer in Brazil some decades ago, I saw how the arrival of electricity — and a television mounted in the public square — changed life in my rural village. The outside world became visible.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes the financial crisis to the “‘collision of a collapsing... View Details
- Profile
Rocio Parra
With a father who has a PhD in electrical engineering, and two older siblings who also pursued engineering degrees, it seemed only natural that Rocio Parra would continue the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age
Professor Karim R. Lakhani and Vladimir Jacimovic (MBA 1992) Karim R. Lakhani, the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration, started his career at General View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Harvard University project. Notice the fifty-gallon barrels beside the steps of the houses on the left. This was for storage of kerosene used to heat the apartments. Natural gas or propane would not have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
the home of Ana and Dr. Juan Gershanik, a local neonatal specialist. Gershanik gained national attention in the aftermath of Katrina for helping to safely evacuate all the premature babies at his hospital, which was underwater... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
Eacho, left, and Minnick (Getty Images) Congress is at a standstill over carbon. One side wants to regulate emissions as a pollutant; the other fears that any move to regulate oil and View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 15 Jul 2025
- Blog Post
Outrage at the Death of a Tree
red buckeyes among others – were strewn like toothpicks, by major thoroughfares, and this was two weeks after the damage. Uprooted root stocks pointed skywards from felled tree trunks, in a reversal of their View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
first of four sons born to Larry and his wife, Billie. The firm is one of the largest diversified holding companies in the United States, with interests in commercial insurance, offshore drilling, oil and... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
explanations for the phenomenon and its success or failure. These included such things as the nature of the industry or product, the way such goals are implemented, and the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Fast Answer
India - Industry specific research
must be requested. Energy Ministry of... View Details
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
solving climate change by setting high environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards in farmland management and investing in regenerative agriculture.” Pat Coady MBA 1966 | Funding the Earth’s View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
the foundations of these communities.” The problem these shea-nut pickers faced, says Akuete, CEO and founder of Eu’Genia Shea and its Target-based sister brand, Mother’s Shea, is that they are largely women... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
to break ground on a massive district cooling system that may pave the way for the complete replacement of natural gas usage with industrial waste heat for the city of Holbæk. Making sustainability... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
American enterprise, Koehn includes more than 100 Times news articles, dating from 1869 to 2003, while developing and analyzing three major themes: The Corporation, The Changing Nature of Work, View Details
- 08 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Koppert Cress: Macro Greenhouses, Microgreens
can also be stored underground to cool down the greenhouses. The company currently uses some natural gas to supplement this circular heating/cooling system. However, by 2025, Baan plans for Koppert Cress to... View Details
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Commencement 2011 Address | About
white photo. His parents were standing in front of the gas station they owned. “ I don ’ t think I ever saw them with clean hands, ” Rob recalled. But the dignity and integrity they brought to their work... View Details