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- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
in potential employees. "Our primary goal is to gauge the integrity and empathy of these young men and women," he says. If you think it's hard to get into Harvard Business School, consider what it takes to land a job as a consultant at...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
It’s a drab gray morning in April, and real estate developer Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) is standing at the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun Streets in Baltimore’s historic Union Square district. Behind her, a chain-link fence decorated with a small...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
increase the productivity of our land and raw materials, what’s ahead of us is a fourth industrial revolution—a “resource revolution” that creates more alignment, stability and resiliency in our world. Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006) Managing...
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- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World...
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- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
Katy Prairie Conservancy’s goal of preserving and restoring prairie lands west of the city. The prairie land absorbs large amounts of water, providing natural water management...
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April White
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Creation of parks connects people to nature and each other
Will Rogers (MBA 1985) recognizes the power of the natural world. As president and CEO of the Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit that works to conserve land for use as parks and gardens, he helps ensure that nature sticks around...
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- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Leveraging MBA Skills for the Public Good
conservation and historic preservation projects. “I wrote, coordinated, and administered the grants for a local land trust,” she says. “I never felt my education was wasted, even if it wasn’t paying work. I...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Don’t Mess with His Texas
his ranch land to the state so that it will be protected forever, the San Antonio Express-News reported (June 8, 2009). “You see it, and you just want to take care of it,” said Waters. A Texas native, Waters worked on Wall Street before...
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- Portrait Project
Brian Tockman
It's simple. Act as an agent for enthusiasm, passion, and ethics in the organizations I join and earn the right to lead others in business. Be an evangelist for the marvel that is nature and work hard to preserve the environmental...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Sustaining a commitment to the environment
Pound Ridge, New York, Zofnass and his family established a 250-acre nature preserve (with a 10-mile walking trail). In addition, he created a two-mile "tree identification" trail (the East Side Zofnass Walk) in New York City's Central...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Tapping into a sustainable enterprise that provides income for indigenous Mexican families
Fredo Arias-King (MBA 1996, AM 1998) helps indigenous forest dwellers and their families in central Mexico stay on their land and thrive financially while also safeguarding their local environment. As founder of Green and Tapped...
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JJ Singh
I want to live generationally. I want to preserve the American Dream. Years ago, I asked my father to take a day off work and visit Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington, with me. As an Indian immigrant, he was always interested in...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
Wolfgang Klietmann, MD (OPM 12, 1987), president of the association, lauded Wyss for his “service to humanity and society in health care, research, education, and preservation of the environment, and as patron of the arts.” (In 2008, Wyss...
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- 02 Dec 2018
- News
Fostering Great Leadership
letters to Bay Area companies, he landed a summer job at Dodge & Cox, an investment management company headquartered in San Francisco. “The top three people there were HBS alums,” he remembers. “That summer job turned into a career.” Over...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
yin and yang between the improvement of the built environment and the preservation of nature,” says Rosenfeld, a member of the California advisory board The Trust for Public Land. “I’d like to think we’re protecting the natural world...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
eleven responses and landed three interviews. “It was,” she says, “a searing experience because I felt it was totally directed at women.” Two job offers came from government — OMB and Defense — but Cohen opted for a private-sector...
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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
surgeons involved and create documentation so that people could see the results," says Wyss, who maintains an active interest in product development. He describes recent advances in spinal surgery, for instance, and a Synthes product that eliminates the need to fuse...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
1984) The Nature Conservancy Worldwide locations A charitable environmental organization that works to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Himalayan Journey
Visions of Bhutan: October 2004 Bhutan photo gallery Prayer flags fluttering gently in the wind; crystalline alpine air; monks’ robes in glowing red; and everywhere warm faces, people smiling, children waving. This is the remote Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
issues, and basic survival needs. You need to be able to show people how preserving the environment can help them economically. For example, we created a buffer zone around a national forest by establishing an "extractive reserve." We...
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