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- 05 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
District Heating in Denmark: How Fjernvarme Fyn fuels an integrated and sustainable future
the low-grade heat is upgraded with large commercial heat pumps, and the resulting high-grade heat is routed to the district heating system which serve a local hospital, nearby buildings, and numerous homes. The chilled water coming out... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
waste, and conserve natural resources. From 2005 to 2015, for instance, the company’s water and energy consumption per garment dropped by 60 percent and 40 percent respectively. Esquel also works to enhance the well-being of its... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
plants. If fuel for backup diesel generators were to run out, such as might happen if a prolonged power outage rendered fuel resupply impossible, the water in the spent fuel pools would boil off and cause the fuel rods to catch fire.... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
CSOs are of critical importance in successful sustainability efforts, but ironically become less central as sustainability efforts blossom. Although often linked with environmental issues such as water and energy use, a growing number of... View Details
- 12 Jan 2021
- News
Keeping the Coast Clear
Photo courtesy Save the Bay Photo courtesy Save the Bay As executive director of the non-profit Save the Bay, Jonathan Stone (MBA 1984) leads the organization’s efforts to protect the waters and habitats of Narragansett Bay, educate the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
pitching. Organizers suggested drinking water rather than Red Bull, but noted "Medieval armor is permitted." Bert Twaalfhoven (MBA 1954) offered guests of the HBS Entrepreneurship Club a personal perspective on the positive power of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Tech Meccas
sends information about the wearer's heartbeat to a data center, where a proprietary algorithm analyzes it for early signs of a heart attack. KarmSolar/Cairo, Egypt: Egyptian farms rely on pumping water from underground sources, which... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
in the context of my work looking at new cities all over the world. I'm interested in rapid urbanization. At the Kumbh Mela, you have the clearest example I know of the creation of a huge and totally new city from scratch. This land, after all, was under View Details
- Portrait Project
Priv Bradoo
valleys of Kashmir. A morsel to eat, As Mama would feed me in warm Muscat days. And a simple dream, As one that makes me write today. For my life is precious, wild, It is! But no more than that of this child, Who yearns for water to... 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
- 06 May 2025
- Blog Post
The Incredible Land of Ice and Fire: Exploring Iceland's Renewable Energy Model for a Changing Planet
Imagine a place where all electricity comes from clean sources, where most cars are EVs and can be charged on almost every street, where daily hot water for homes and pools is drawn from the depths of the Earth, and where sweet tomatoes... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
Above: illustration by Brian Stauffer In 2008, Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) attended a presentation on climate change and the global water crisis at her five-year HBS reunion. Harvard Professor Daniel Schrag, who directs the University’s Center... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
Coalition, an organization coordinating business, government, and nonprofit efforts to improve India’s water quality and health outcomes. Naina Lal Kidwai: This was not a sexy business. You don't want to put your name to toilets. You're... View Details
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Study Spaces | Baker Library
the 3rd floor, adjacent to the Stamps Reading Room. The space features several amenities for patrons including movable tables and chairs, a group project room, two individual private work rooms, as well as a charging station, copier, and scanner. View Details
- Portrait Project
Lindsay Rosenblum
in a room so silent I could hear water dripping from pipes above, I finally accepted that I was different. It had taken me 15 years and 125 cases to realize I was, in fact, dyslexic. Everyone who said I had an unfair advantage never truly... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Running faster to compete
in 1978 and put the now $26 million company on the international map with Aquamesh. As the company expanded, Knott implemented innovative, money-saving measures, such as generating electricity via hydropower, recirculating heat from manufacturing processes to warm the... 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
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Room to Write
window that looks out into the woods.” —Keith D. Wright Sr. (PMD 67, 1994), Spiritual Oars for Dark Waters “During the cold months when I reside in San Francisco, I write at a favorite coffee shop. My first draft is always handwritten.”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
soft gloss paint. To top it off, the building’s dome and finial were cleaned and resurfaced with new 23½-karat gold leaf. The academic year kicked off with a heated competition known as RC Field Day. Sections vied for domination in dizzy-bat, a View Details
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- 10 Apr 2013
- News
Tapped In
steady income, provide carbon sequestration and protection for the land's underground water reservoirs, and—eventually—may help increase resin production for T&R. Eventually, Arias-King hopes to help communities in Mexico plant a total of... View Details