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- 04 May 2011
- News
Recipes from the COC (Chief Operating Cook)
cereal." Thanks to reunion volunteer Laurel Skurko (MBA '91), who enticed the Dean to share three of his favorite recipes, HBS alumni can try these everyday main course dishes. Channa Masala (Spicy Chickpeas) Ingredients (to serve 4) 2 cans of Goya (or other brand)... View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
to me as I approached it through my path in the ice. As a Navy Seal officer (and Vietnam vet prior to HBS), this was not my first ice-water swim. I was well aware of the amount of time a body can spend in ice water before conditions get... 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
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Fred Newman (MBA 1978)
most nimble of media. When I deliver my stories, my sounds, I’m an inch away from the listener’s ear. I deliver them to one person. It’s such a joy to be able to do a delicate little water drip [imitates three drips of water] up close,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
Blueland cofounders, Sarah Paiji Yoo, John Mascari (MBA 2012), and Gina Pak (MBA 2015) (photo by Chris Taggart) As new mom Sarah Paiji Yoo contemplated the switch from nursing her infant son to making him formula, she was horrified to discover that drinking View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
football, repair capitalism Business lessons for a global century Chocolates for a cause Safe water for millions Nature belongs to everyone Capitalize on the network The world at home Quiet your mind (Images via the HBS Bulletin,... 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
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
A Clean Start
photosynthesis, has figured out how to convert carbon dioxide and water into all types of things, from wood and fibers to fruits and grains,” he says. It’s a process that’s worked for 3.5 billion years. “We need to look at CO2 as a... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
Hotel Manzana Kempinski La Habana—the city’s first-ever luxury hotel—his morning meetings begin with something much more basic: “How much water do we have in the tanks?” On a sunny April day in the airy second-floor lobby, Benedetti... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
as possibleâ ¦.The big issue is the swelling in my lower bodyâ ¦I have gained around 45 pounds of water weight, which makes it extremely hard to walk aroundâ ¦Yesterday was a very special day in that we visited dear friends Todd and... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
well. Morrell: Part of your upcoming plans include a return to the States. What are you looking forward to about your return to the States? And similarly, what are you dreading? Tapon: I'm looking forward to consistent utilities. In other words, internet that always... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
Video Embed The Esquel Group has reduced water consumption at its factories by more than 50 percent in the last nine years. Asia–based Esquel Group is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-end cotton shirts, producing about 100... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
Africa. We hiked for about eight days in the bush, far removed from any civilization. No roads. No cabins. Slept under the stars in between the animals. And one day, our guides told us we were going to hike to find some fresh drinking View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
Freedom. Democracy. For five days, as Chai Ling lay in the suffocating darkness of a nailed-shut crate, these words sustained her more than her meager ration of bread and water ever could. Hidden in the hold of a leaky boat, waiting to... View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
valuable product. “Nature, through photosynthesis, has figured out how to convert carbon dioxide and water into all types of things, from wood and fibers to fruits and grains,” he observes. Surely humans could use this natural process—one... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
Merkl: Managing water resources for a sustainable future. Photo Courtesy of Andreas Merkl They say all rivers lead to the sea. If that is true, then it's only fitting that Andreas Merkl (MBA 1989) should find himself today at the helm of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
period. The business could wait; the people could not. The Long Beach plant’s parking lot was turned into what we called Oreckville. We very quickly purchased trailer homes from all over the country and brought them in. We delivered food and View Details