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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
is becoming an ever-more urgent issue and one that inevitably will mean increased involvement for the private sector. Says American Water’s Jeremy Pelczer, “On their own, or working with NGOs, or in public-private partnerships,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
faculty around the Business and Environment Initiative and the Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative who are already engaged in this work. So BiGS will build from strength, amplifying what faculty members are already doing and providing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
in perpetuity. Lyme Timber’s principals are pioneers in securing financing for conservation easements, and Hoffer helped to procure one of the first easements under the federal Forest Legacy program in Vermont, in 1995. He works at Lyme... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details
- 15 Apr 2020
- News
How Sarah Kauss Built S’well
on her recent HBS Reunion, where she had listened to Harvard Professor Daniel Schrag discuss the impacts of climate change and the looming global water crisis. “I had this idea that if there was a company that was creating a better water bottle and you tried to tie it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)
whole life, which was very difficult indeed.” Touching a rhino: “Take sandpaper and multiply that feeling by 20. But once you get past the hard exterior, here’s an animal that’s actually very vulnerable. Underneath the armpit, it’s smooth like a baby.” Where the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
job in the office of San Francisco's then Mayor Dianne Feinstein opened his eyes to the skills he really needed. "I was working on some complicated subsidized housing plans," he says. "It became shockingly apparent that I did not... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Offshore Learning
you can catch and hold one of the briny little creatures in your own two hands. As president and CEO of the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in Boston, Arthur Pearson (MBA 1991) is working with Boston Public Schools to make... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- News
Sustainability Is Good Business
business and environmentalists to collaborate to develop sustainable enterprises. He described, for example, how Nature Conservancy scientists are working with Rio Tinto, a global mining behemoth, to craft an environmentally sensitive... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
of international funding sources for the estimated $50 billion to $60 billion project and work to develop a feasibility study that is focused on the trunk line of the system, the Amazon-Putumayo-Pacific corridor. With degrees in civil... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
enabler for this. Clean has an international component, and there's an ongoing negotiation and green race among countries. There's a lot of capacity building that needs to go on here." Until very recently, all of that work in China... View Details
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R and Python - Research Computing Services
in the directory $HOME/.local for use by your scripts and programs. If you are upgrading modules that are already installed centrally, insert --upgrade before the --user option. Python and Conda Environments If you are View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
works out to a 35 percent chance in a span of 30 years if nothing else changes). The hotel’s owners should be balancing the near-term known cost of reinforcement—that is, investing in resilience—against the unknown but much higher... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Climate Change as Must-See TV
issue or understand its urgency." Working with fellow executive producers James Cameron, Jerry Weintraub, and 60 Minutes veterans David Gelber and Joel Bach, Abbasi secured backing from HBS alumni Bill Bowes (MBA 1952), Chris Hohn (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
and their role in emerging markets has been part of a larger effort to understand how local business environments influence company strategy. Strategy scholars have often emphasized how industry- and firm-specific characteristics affect... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
this question, particularly since if this is a question of coordinating efforts, highlighting the risks and benefits of action may help to create a critical mass of firms working together. "Could we build a private sector in which... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
their entrances more visible as people walked into a branch, the bank was able to substantially improve consumer acceptance. Lesson 4: Recognize That Customers' Response To Technology Varies. It is very difficult to create one customer interface that View Details