• 01 Jun 2023
• News

Action Plan: Net Proceeds

clean up a beach, and no one is going to buy that plastic, the beach will just get dirty again.” Later, Goodwin would learn how bad the problem is, with 11 million tons of plastic garbage entering the ocean each year. Over 80 percent of... View Details

Keywords: April White; recycling; corporate social responsibility; waste management; water; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

• Portrait Project

Janice Lin

nothing but a career and a bank account. Instead, I will see all the oceans and travel to each continent. I'll sit with penguins in Antarctica and play with pandas in China. I'll ride a motorcycle through the winding mountain roads —... View Details

• Portrait Project

Brian Shaw

Live outdoors. Drink freshly squeezed orange juice. Let food cook slowly on the grill. Tell the ocean what worries me. Listen to the sunset. Sleep out underneath the stars. Feel small. Go swimming in rivers. Let my insecurities flow. Run... View Details

• 24 Sep 2014
• Op-Ed

Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change

control surface on a boat or aircraft" (e.g., a rudder on an ocean liner) to control or alter the direction of a very large craft (e.g., the ocean liner itself). How do you change the direction of an... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Energy; Utilities

• Portrait Project

Patrick Chung

I am the repository of my parents' hopes and dreams. Our unbroken history stretches far back across borders and oceans I do not know and now finds itself newly planted here. How will I add another link to the chain? I will dig my hands... View Details

• 01 Sep 2006
• News

Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass

the ultimate answer is what some people call ocean zoning. Just as we have zones for people and buildings and other zones for nature, I think we need to do something similar in the sea to allow fish habitats that are not subject to the... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture

• Portrait Project

Jordan Bazinsky

I will do my part to help the most vulnerable have at least a "crib of one's own." Standing on the front porch of my small wooden home, built to withstand the ocean breeze, one hand will be on my crib. The other will be... View Details

• 01 Mar 2013
• News

Oil Rigs and Ripe Fruit

With 40,000 employees, Singapore-based Keppel Corporation is one of the world's largest manufacturers of offshore oil rigs, both floating deep-water semisubmersibles that anchor to the seabed and "jack-up" rigs that stand on legs on the View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

• 06 Dec 2021
• News

New Wave

homes, while wave energy could power more than 200 million. And global capacity for ocean energy is even greater, with experts saying that marine sources could provide enough electricity to satisfy worldwide demand four times over. Yet... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

• 04 Sep 2019
• News

Deep Dive

Victor Vescovo (MBA 1994) had been descending through the waters of the Pacific Ocean for more than two hours. The headlights on the exterior of his state-of-the-art submersible illuminated only a tiny slice of this strange world. An... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

• 21 Feb 2017
• News

Wilson Claims Title of Fastest American Solo Sailor

Bulletin is considered “the Mt. Everest of the seas.” This year’s competition was his second successful solo ocean race. He soundly bested his time in the 2008-9 edition of the race of 121 days and 41 minutes. While battling storms, rough... View Details

Keywords: Vendee Globe

• Portrait Project

Monica Haugen

I still constantly look around and think, "I am so different from these people." Although I crossed no ocean to get here, it feels as though I crossed something even bigger - a social and economic divide. I have accessed an... View Details

• Portrait Project

John Paul Andree

If I hit that water, I’ll be dead within five minutes. I am flying my last mission on my last deployment before starting HBS, hundreds of miles into the freezing North Atlantic Ocean on my way back to the United States. Fuel pressure is... View Details

• 05 Aug 2010
• What Do You Think?

What Is Customer Opinion Good For?

book of five years ago, Blue Ocean Strategy, to check my recollection of what the authors had to say about the role of the customer in fashioning a strategy that would enable an enterprise to escape from red, blood-strewn, competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Technology

• Portrait Project

Suzanne Floy Gauron

However harried the moment, I will remember the arc of that cherry tree against the sky, admire the ocean from a window, and delight in the prospect of summers to come. View Details