Sanitation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2005
News

Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

were clearly the ones in need. "With all the self-confidence of a 22-year-old," she remembers, "I persuaded the agency to use its money to provide the slums with water, sanitation systems, and electricity and to create enterprises that... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

and hand sanitizer to every household in the city of Chelsea. We’re staffing a hotel that the cities of Chelsea and Revere have rented for people who need to be quarantined, and we’re providing medical and nursing care there. We are doing... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

months of the pandemic writing about marketplace design tactics that could provide support—for example, by leveraging delivery marketplaces to bring food to the elderly or by distributing hand sanitizer more equitably. Kominers joined... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Jun 2020
News

Check In

hotels we own, we’re looking at hospital-grade sanitation programs. We’re looking at things like plexiglass shields between the customer and the check-in desk. We’re considering what social distancing looks like in our restaurants—or do... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hotels; COVID-19; real estate; Accommodation; Hospitality

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

profit for shareholders and directors. Pfeffer is also tired of seeing so-called leadership development services offered in a sanitized vacuum by a “leadership industry” under “brands” such as authentic leadership and servant leadership,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

18 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 18

entrepreneurial firms explicitly devoted to making a profitable business out of conserving and returning valuable resources to productive use, while maintaining public sanitation and in many cases offering nascent environmental... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2005
News

WATER Ltd.

without water and sanitation by 2015. The essential element is leadership from the public sector.” Doug Brown agrees. “Water issues are addressable, but they require a commitment of resources and capital. That people drink water... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2011
News

Water for Life

development, we strongly believe that the delivery of water and sanitation services to the city of Manila significantly affects the quality of life of the public, especially those in marginalized communities. This opportunity to have a... View Details

Keywords: Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

their nations' labor force, or that some countries have infant mortality rates more than ten times our own. Indeed, access to a computer, well enough access to sanitation or a telephone, can be very limited around the world. The lists go... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

16 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

military casualties? If it releases what is construed by the public as sanitized data, will citizens view the site cynically? Customer needs: As business people, some class participants wanted to see a clearly outlined customer... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

10 May 2022
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982) Former Executive Director, Board of HSBC Asia Pacific; Former Chairman, HSBC India; Founder and Chairman, India Sanitation Coalition Take a memo: “My mother used to ask my sister and me to fetch our father from... View Details

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

customer visits to those facilities. That doesn't tell you anything about the social impact—it doesn't tell you whether people's health has improved as a result, or whether environmental and sanitation conditions have improved, though... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

26 Aug 2020
News

What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

our lives to try to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions is very similar to trying to wear masks and use hand sanitizer and buy ourselves some time until we get a vaccine. It's just like buying ourselves some time until we can capture... View Details

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

registrations and improving personal sanitation in Ghana. In addition, the importance of fostering a collaborative online environment is explored. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612066-PDF-ENG The Case of the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

all citizens of our country have access to healthcare and other necessities of life.” MAY 2 Garuda Aerospace, led by CEO Agnishwar Jayaprakash (PLDA 25, 2018), is employing his company’s drones to deliver vaccines and medical supplies. Garuda has also used the vehicles... View Details

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