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- 01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend
in another, with a zipper that came from a third. This lack of vertical integration makes visibility into the supply chain almost impossible. Add to that the fact most of the negative environmental impact...
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- 01 Jan 2013
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Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
their "least-cost energy" strategy, focusing on minimizing the cost and the environmental impact of energy services such as heat and light. "Cogeneration," a technique that simultaneously generates...
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Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2023
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End Game
your mission forever.” “Once you’re public, nothing can lock in your mission forever.” This concern for environmental impact has been front and center since Patagonia’s founding in 1973. When the young...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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An Engine of Innovation
Innovation Labs. Previously, Joseph Lassiter, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired, and Srikant Datar, the George F. Baker Professor of Administration and Dean of the Faculty, served...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision
Initiative will give business leaders access to a huge pool of talent while also addressing an important societal issue. Other members of the faculty are doing research on new ways of measuring the business indicators that reflect an organization’s financial, social,...
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- 08 Jun 2023
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Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner
alum Andrew Tobias (MBA 1972) presented the John C. Whitehead Social Enterprise Award to conservation power couple Paul J. Zofnass (MBA 1973), founder of the Environmental Financial Consulting Group, and his wife, Renee E. Ring, COO of...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
programs have a long-lasting impact on the progress of their workers, their companies, and their countries, and have done so in particular in Brazil," said Esteves, who visited the HBS campus in March to deliver the keynote speech at a...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Made in Italy
business school in the 1970s, Segel spent part of his studies in Florence. “It had an enormous impact on my life,” he says now. Segel fell in love with architecture and design there, a passion which led him into the real estate business...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2022
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A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
emissions are produced by the industry, and the amount of textile waste generated each year could fill 20,000 football stadiums, Theuerkauf explains, adding that, “even in 2022, excess inventory is still put in landfills and burned.” To reduce the sector’s negative...
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April White
- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Younger Black Knowledge Workers BIO As global leaders prepare to meet in Glasgow, the prospects for mitigating the impact of climate change do not look very good. A detailed new analysis from the Rhodium Group, as reported by Axios.com,...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Step Change
more work to be done. He also notes that Thndr’s valuation was 5.7 times higher in the round following Enan’s investment (one made as managing director at Global Ventures), demonstrating that impact and profit aren’t mutually exclusive....
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- 03 Nov 2023
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Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
while she worked at BrainHeart Energy. She has since founded Antarez Global Impact Capital, which is focusing on investment in large-scale sustainable infrastructure. As a board member for the HBS Club of Sweden, she focuses on promoting...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 23 Oct 2019
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Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
when we see a lot of light bulbs go on as students put into practice the technical and managerial concepts they’ve been learning in case discussions,” explains Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management...
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Educational Innovation
- 26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising
assets—which Greece has had a wealth of in recent years. Indeed the last decade has been rough on the country, to vastly understate the impact of a sovereign debt crisis that nearly kneecapped the entire eurozone. A succession of three...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2017
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The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
I cause a problem that harms you, my neighbor, now, we might find a way to negotiate so that I don’t harm you as much, and I’d compensate you for the harm I’ve done. But our biggest environmental challenge these days is climate change,...
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- 16 Sep 2019
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Smarter Farming
Zealand forestry and turn it into farming for animals. That involved cutting down a lot of trees, putting up a lot of fences, and putting lots of animals across some of New Zealand's most pristine country. Today, our mission is very different. The View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Combating Climate Change
problems. Supply chains will be disrupted. There will be new conflicts over water, resources, and human migration. The very physical integrity of factories and buildings will be threatened. So what can businesses do? For most firms, View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
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Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective
with Amram Migdal (a former research associate) and Mike Lynch (MBA 2017) for the Business, Government, and the International Economy class to help students explore the impact of policymaking on business around climate change. The case...
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