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greenhouse gas emissions. There’s also rampant waste and pollution involved in making the clothes we wear—two-thirds of which, after being jettisoned from our closets, get tossed into landfills or incinerated. Shifting from that linear... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

Ferdinand Stockmann (MBA 2021) and James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021) Photo courtesy Syrup Tech Fashion is one of the most polluting industries in the world, says James Theuerkauf (MBA 2021), who worked in McKinsey’s retail sector before... View Details

Keywords: April White

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

will operate, recognizing that’s decades not quarters. This requires considering our current and future customers, communities, employees, and shareholders—not just the people we are working with today. The externalities of business-as-usual are a constraint to our... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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our sample affects, on average, 40 facilities. If you aggregate the penalty effect across these 40 facilities, that’s a $1.2 million increase in penalties over three years,” he adds. It also doesn’t include private companies, which can also View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

20 Jan 2011
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Oil Spill Solution

that has proven effective in pollutant absorption both above and beneath the surface of water. Smith has been working closely with fishermen in the Gulf area to help rid the affected waters of the propylene glycol (a chemical found in... View Details

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