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- 06 May 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup
Solutions, where I helped to launch a service aimed at making transportation easier, more affordable, and more efficient for communities in cities around the world. Through this work, I was able to immerse myself in the evolving landscape... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Nayana Mawilmada (MBA 2005) is seeing things. Standing at the edge of Beira Lake, an algae-choked body of water in the heart of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, he envisions people and restaurants—like New York’s South Street Seaport, he... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
Cherian weighs in with this comment: ". . . there could be a rise and fall in global corporations—a rise of corporations from new economy nations and a fall in corporations in old economy nations." As M. P. Jayaprakash puts it, "Like View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
made to contain the risk that such outside organic matter could introduce. Visitors are asked to dip the soles of their shoes into a shallow plastic water bath, so as to limit contamination by pathogens and insects. Entry into one of the... 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
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
meeting the needs facing the threats of rising sea levels and record floods; converting energy systems to truly replaceable sources; reducing fresh water consumption or creating large desalination operations; saving top soils; reducing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
If you ask any given environmentalist to identify the biggest threat to the planet, you may expect to hear about man-made climate change, consumerism, or overpopulation. But if you ask Harvard Business School's Joseph B. Lassiter, he'll toss in another: single-issue... 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
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
privately financed project that will provide enough desalinated seawater to provide drinking water for 300,000 San Diegans. The propriety of having private companies provide a public good like water may be... View Details
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
and far less power and fresh water than other methods of extraction, Lithios is unlocking a responsible, domestic supply chain of one of the most critical raw materials for the energy transition. Brett's role prior to HBS was an Engineer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
Beyond the wide-ranging influence TIBCO already enjoys, Ranadivé envisions a "metanetwork" of the future. "There'll be ubiquitous computing," he predicts, "with billions of sensors and microprocessors. For example, your lawn will determine that it's dry, and sprinklers... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
also a building block in making the chemicals that go into things like plastics, road materials, and a wide variety of other products. And Brix sees another potential use in the clean tech sector: to transport green hydrogen. TB: We think... View Details
- Web
Art Nature Business
ice from Spy Pond in the town of Arlington, Massachusetts. Established by Frederic Tudor in Boston in 1806, prior to the age of refrigeration, the Tudor Ice Company transported ice by rail and ship from freshwater ponds to locations... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment The Earth At Night, 2009: Cities may occupy just 2 percent of the planet’s landmass but they hold half the world’s people and produce much of its carbon emissions. Image by NASA/Corbis Issue Focus The Business and Environment... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
their favorite watering hole and discussed the challenge of cutting $600 million out of the operating budget. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=503112 South Dakota Wheat Growers Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
can increase use. We test this hypothesis in a field experiment in Zambia using door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. Our methodology separates the screening effect of prices (charging more changes the mix of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
workers, and the city—or private actors—has to invest in resource efficiency. So how can our water, fuel, and transit go further? By having multifamily housing, by having some kind of mass transit, by having a common water extraction and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
house Western companies happens in conditions that wouldn’t pass an OSHA inspection. Clean drinking water and indoor plumbing are a luxury, and slums line main roads. For many of the country’s 1.1 billion residents, life still exists... View Details
- 25 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship
systems including Alice Waters of Chez Panisse and the Edible Schoolyard Project. The overwhelming sentiment was that consumer focus on nutrition and sustainability in food is only growing, and sustainable farming and land management... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
closer to Earth. Two years ago, the agency awarded a nearly $7 billion contract to SpaceX—launched in 2002 by PayPal and Tesla Motors cofounder Musk—and Boeing to transport US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) starting... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley