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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
Black. “Banks don’t want to touch this; they consider it a toxic asset,” Dlodlo says of the rubble-strewn lot. The challenges confronting Dlodlo are not unique to Baltimore. Cities ranging from San Francisco to New York are struggling to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Reinventing the Wheel
extracting carbon black from discarded models to create new ones. Cardozo first heard about the idea in 2013 while serving as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Dutch incubator YES!Delft. The idea of chipping away at the mountains of old tires without emitting loads... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
preachy." Horn was subsequently asked to become a board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in 1990. "In the face of the Contract with America's rollback efforts, NRDC is a staunch defender of clean air, clean water, and the proper treatment of View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
e-waste accounts for only 2 percent of the trash in American landfills, it is responsible for 70 percent of toxic waste and is the fastest-growing municipal waste stream in the United States. Currently, most e-recycling is done in a very... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
tasks, so too should we remedy financial turmoil.” First, stabilize the patient, in this case the markets. That’s what the $700 billion rescue plan (signed into law by President Bush MBA ’75 on October 3) aimed to accomplish: stabilize the institutions holding View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- News
Candy That Is Good for You
ingredient in gum. We use chicle, which is a natural, biodegradable ingredient that's the sap of a tree in Central America. We're very proud of the fact that our gum is better for the environment as a result, and of course, doesn't have all the synthetics that are... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
with the right antibiotic on the first day they are admitted to the hospital—day zero—rather than being hit with multiple days of toxic broad-spectrum antibiotics. To enable their diagnostic tools, DZD has built one of the world’s largest... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
which a drug is interacting, we can predict the basis for toxicity as well as efficacy," says Alan Crane of Millennium. "With the whole genome known, the process of drug discovery in the future will involve comprehensively identifying all... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
chromium, a toxic heavy metal that is linked to respiratory cancer, asthma, skin irritation, and liver and kidney damage. This is not protecting us. And quite frankly, if you encounter any of these regulated hazards in an office building... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Brothers were also at risk, which well, you know where this is going. The decision to let Lehman fail, we’re told by the decision-makers themselves, received only cursory debate. The judgment last year to invest in banks, rather than buy their View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
calling out workplace discrimination and retaliation against women and other underrepresented groups. Her suit exposed the tech world’s toxic culture and its homogeneity. Though she lost her suit, Pao revolutionized the conversation at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Bounce Back from a Blunder
the trust of your investors is a challenge, she acknowledges, earning it back after a breach is nearly impossible. Reality check. One of the biggest blunders Brown has made is not firing toxic people soon enough, and hiring someone even... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
the smartest people in the world who run the major Wall Street firms not understand that these products were toxic and end up getting caught with them on their books? As Fed chairman, did Alan Greenspan have a hand in creating the current... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
indoor spaces can make you sick—or keep you healthy. Fortunately, we now have the know-how and technology to keep people safe indoors. But there is more to securing your office, school, or home than wiping down surfaces. Levels of carbon dioxide, particulates,... View Details