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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Green as Gold
now achieve a 30 percent reduction in water usage. Sensors conserve electricity by automatically reducing interior lighting according to the amount of sunlight in a room. New bureaus, desks, and bookshelves were constructed from Plyboo, a... View Details
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Sustainability Resources for HBS MBAs
Environment Harvard University Office for Sustainability MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative MIT Water Club UMass Sustainable Solutions Lab Sustainability Centers Community Stanford University News Yale Center... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
California Water Crisis This case highlights the tough choices, competing interests, and decision-making mechanisms involved in California's management of its severe drought, entering its fifth year in 2015. Stuart Woolf, CEO of Woolf... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
hotels. Set among pristine waters and beaches, backed by stunning volcanic mountain islands, the resorts boast romantic over-the-water bungalows, luxurious amenities, and the highest ratings from guests and travel industry experts.... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315047-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-072 Innovating with the Crowd No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615072-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-007 The Slingshot:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
patient treatment and contact tracing, including procurement of all supplies of oxygen and medical equipment; support for the private sector and employment; distribution of food kits and food stamps to more than 1 million households; and View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
is being used and advocate for climate-smart investments. Looking ahead to 2030, Ellis, of Inherent Group, emphasized opportunities in water reuse and efficiency, and Broido Johnson, of CBJ Energy, highlighted low-tech but high-impact... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leaning In to Gender Equity
and let opportunities for advancement pass them by—at least compared to their male peers. These observations are the real surprise thread winding through Lean In, and they have landed her in hot water with critics who prefer to pin most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
director Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001)—around how to respond to the government's insistent request, relatively late in the planning process, for increased community services in areas such as education, water and sanitation, and... View Details
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
private-sector industries (e.g., oil and gas, automobiles) and their lobbyists and water carriers in Washington ensured that fledgling alternative-energy industries, perhaps America’s best hope for a manufacturing future, would not get... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Mar 2011
- News
Maximum Cities
solved without business," added John Macomber. "The need is huge, the demand is huge, and you have to partner." Click here to read an HBS Working Knowledge article on the conference's water and transportation panels:... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
competitive workforces and attract other industry; that clean water and renewable energy can reduce their costs and improve their products; and that well-housed citizens make better customers. Lagace: How can managers put the advice in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
room, two types of students. One of them was the passionate blow-through-a-wall, dive into a pool and don’t even look whether there’s water there, whether they have a bathing suit on and whether they’ve learned how to swim. Those are the... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
water and fly. It's a very, three-dimensional sport. And it's just fulfilling, and exciting, and full of freedom. In the 2009 time frame, I went on a kite trip. I wanted to go kite the Western corner of Australia. And on that trip,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)
In the summer when it got really hot, my brother and I would buy cases of water. We grew up in Queens near Linden Boulevard and we would stand on the corner and sell bottles of water to people who stopped at the light. We always had this... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Welcome to the BEI Blog!
which has quickly grown to be one of the largest business & environment clubs on campus. We work closely with the Sustainability Club, as well as the Energy & Environment Club and Food, Agriculture, and Water Club to develop... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Taylor R. M. Keen
readjusting to the academic world, however, Keen became as much a teacher as a student. On two occasions he performed tribal rituals for his section, playing the sacred water drum and sharing songs and wisdom from his tradition. "You have... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Tony Sanchez - Team Builder
Photography by Robert Schoen The résumé of Roger Anthony (“Tony”) Sanchez reads like a laundry list of military superlatives: U.S. Naval Academy engineering major, water polo team captain, and battalion commander; Navy SEAL platoon... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
are a number of "chicken and egg" processes, or feedback loops here. I learned a saying in Chinese: "You can catch big fish in murky water." That means that the big fish are hiding when the water is clear, or they have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
several very large companies cannot, on their own, get us there. In fact, historically, no big environmental problem, from air and water pollution to acid rain or ozone depletion, has ever been solved by businesses volunteering to do the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler