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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
global production of plastic packaging is on course to quadruple by 2050—no amount of conventional recycling will get us out of this mess. Instead, experts say we need to improve our mopping-up efforts through recycling, upcycling, and...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
have been a huge mistake. Two years earlier, she and her partner, Peter Strugatz, had purchased the assets of Great Harbor Design at public auction for $26,000. The former owner had invested $4 million in perfecting a durable building surface made from cement and View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
long-term solutions to fundamental problems. In Haiti, a recycling program built to reduce flooding from clogged canals has helped to reduce cholera transmissions and create sustainable jobs. In Brazil, a business consortium is providing...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Kresge’s Afterlife
Illustration by David Plunkert Alumni looking to reminisce about Kresge Hall might want to book a trip to Jamaica. That was one of the destinations for the 50 truckloads of household and office goods that HBS donated to non-profits as part of its View Details
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Dan Morrell
- 07 Nov 2016
- News
The Business of Saving Old Buildings
setting up a nonprofit foundation to do recycling of older buildings, and so I started the Architecture Heritage Foundation and was asked by the Boston Redevelopment Authority to come up with what they could do with the surplus wholesale...
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- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
was—naturally—”What are your biggest costs?” Trash, they said—it was 30 percent of the municipal budget. So Cisco outfitted Barcelona’s recycling bins with sensors that would help determine how full they were at pickup. The results: Most...
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Dan Morrell
- 21 Aug 2008
- News
Stylin’ at Gallatin
percent of the discarded materials were recycled in some way. Three thousands bricks were reused in the renovation. Gallatin is the second residence hall and fifth building on the HBS campus to achieve LEED certification for construction...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
clean energy technology, and customer demand for products and services. Another case looks at Norsk Gjenvinning, Norway’s largest supplier of recycling and environmental services, which was purchased by a private equity fi rm in 2012....
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- 11 May 2011
- News
In a Good Place
everything from handmade jewelry (think cufflinks made from old typewriter keys) to custom-made furniture (perhaps a coffee table constructed from recycled barn siding?). Incorporated in 1985, founded by parent volunteers (Gehrke took the...
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- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
to invest in the careers of politicians who will vow to keep our unfair tax advantages. —Dal LaMagna (MBA 1970) is president and CEO of Brooklyn, New York–based IceStoneUSA, which makes countertops out of recycled glass and cement. The...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
E-waste recycling Marcel Brenninkmeijer (AMP 155 1998) Good Energies Foundation London, New York, and Zug Foundation focused on poverty alleviation through sustainable access to renewable energy Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002) Serious...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
customers, so of course it makes sense that we care for our employees and our communities as an extension of that. Eco-consciousness has been part of the company since the beginning, given our practice of recycling and renovating older...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
services to working on a reduce, reuse, and recycle campaign. The job really showed me how government could be a force for good.” Network effects: 2.1 billion people use Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, or Instagram every day. Podcast...
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Julia Hanna
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
will eventually come out, and when it does, there will be an opportunity to give it new life before recycling it or creating hazardous waste.” As SER looks ahead, the company knows smart energy is a smart investment, yet its mission is...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path
Plastic bottles are sorted for recycling at Cedar Environmental on the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon. Professor Nien-hê Hsieh tries to bring his students to the “gray area”—that uncomfortable and all-too-common space where leaders face...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Finding sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises
market-based solutions to difficult problems. "Business can be the greatest force for good on this planet," says Goodwin. Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, he led the establishment of a nationwide recycling program that currently...
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- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
says he loved the idea of boosting domestic energy production while recycling existing sources of CO2, because he had come to HBS looking to merge his interests in business, energy, and the environment. The son of a commercial fisherman,...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Dress Like a Million from Goodwill: The Ultimate Recycle Store by Jean Kelley (OPM 29, 2000) (JKLA Publishing) Goodwill stores are the ultimate retail location for getting great deals on name brand clothing. In this book, the...
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- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
since April 2009) MBA 1999K Rich Lloyd, http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/richlloyd (a struggle with cancer; archived since Sept. 2007) MBA 2001F Kaiser Fung, Junk Charts: Recycling Chartjunk as Junk Art, http://junkcharts.typepad.com/...
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- 26 Oct 2017
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Can Farming Save the Planet?
his own company building environmentally sustainable live/work projects in New Mexico. “They were high density, they were affordable, and we recycled the water from them,” Wiviott explains. “It just made sense. I mean, my life felt better...
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