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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
slum as defined by the United Nations: inadequate access to safe water and sanitation, poorly built housing, overcrowding, and insecure residential status (i.e., most people hold no legal title to their property). Despite these difficult... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Greater New Orleans Foundation, which helps with companies working on water resource issues. This outbreak of entrepreneurship is the result of an influx of well-educated citizens to the city. From 2007 to... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
identifying such a social-sensitive goal for ourselves as a food company. We are willing to continue working along the same objective with additional features and more dedicated resources from now on.” MARCH 21 To support earthquake... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
hardwoods that routinely fall in that region because of excessive rainfall. By leaving behind the trees' branches and leaves — which is where most of the soil-building nutrients are — by using water buffalo instead of large hauling... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
and conservation, looking at waste management and water quality. All of these things are cost savings by the way. Your natural resources and land use, right. And any issues with hazardous materials, as well.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
deteriorated under Saddam, so too did operational knowledge and skills, personified in the human capital destroyed in Iraq’s several wars or stifled by Saddam’s repression. But in some respects, Iraq is lucky. It has immense resources —... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
to try the drug at a friend’s house hops in the shower first. Looking down, she sees blood running in the water and, screaming, turns to confront a future version of her meth-addicted self, emaciated and covered with sores. (A 2012 study... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
temperate climates that have access to water and are in higher latitudes tend to be more developed than those in lower latitudes with tropical climates and minimal water access. Sachs explained that tropical... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
regulations, in part by helping producers secure public guarantees for financing a $17 million water treatment plant. “That was a success story that saved and created jobs and became the basis of an HBS case,” notes Duch. “Today everyone... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
Fourth, Shackleton made his men believe that they could do it, that they could all get back to safety alive. How did he do this, create such self-belief in his team and thus make them part of the solution? Partly by his showing up every day in service to the mission.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
back to the mainland. “Our classroom is a 204-acre island with two salt marshes, a fresh water marsh, an inner tidal zone, meadows, and forests.” Since 2005, Pearson has spearheaded an $8.3 million capital campaign to fund infrastructure... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
demand and thus make Esquel's production planning as efficient as possible. Advances in engineering-from conserving natural resources such as energy and water to computerized color matching in the dyeing... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
weather. Platzer agrees with Nagaraj: Satellite loss is expected. “Don’t update—replace. It’s cheaper,” he says, referring to the two-year average lifespan of CubeSats. Joseph Landon VP and CFO, Planetary Resources “Everything we consider... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
thought needed additional investment of time and resources which was fundamentally what to do with carbon dioxide. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck podcast DM:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Water for Life Green Day Related Links HBS Business and Environment Initiative The Untold Story of 'Green'... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
business was not realizing we needed to put more resources in public relations. I had this sort of belief that if you do the right thing, a water will seek its own level, that you'll get your message out.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
night and day, / towers rise as if to say / Pollution can be beautiful.” Bach’s final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds “Demagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
historic emergence of credit and debt was as important in the rise of civilization as technological invention. In the excerpt that follows, he explains the recently developed symbiotic financial relationship between the United States and China — “Chimerica.” To many,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Enterprise examines the foundations of bold yet reasonable action. Make Work Fair: Data-Driven Design for Real Results By Iris Bohnet and Siri Chilazi (MBA 2016) Harper Business To make organizations more fair, many well-meaning individuals and companies invest their... View Details