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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
meetings. Thousands of people have participated. And there have been a number of court cases. The judges who have reviewed the evidence have all essentially come to the same conclusion: The new runway is necessary to fix the delay problem. The runway also will help...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons
Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Eduardo Recife Professor Nancy Koehn uses the perspective of time to tell the stories of ordinary people who, despite the odds, achieved extraordinary things. As these moments from her new book, Forged in Crisis, show, their...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Leading Change
balance are our priorities,” says Yang. Pro-worker and pro-environment policies aren’t just a social good at Esquel. “They save money and strengthen our competitive advantage,” notes Yang. For example, polluted water impedes the...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
widely used would reduce the amount of fossil fuel we ultimately burn. Taken together, these developments perhaps serve as a snapshot of the environmental landscape today. On the one hand, scientific indicators continue to warn of the long-term effects of air, water,...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
twenty-year federal pollution suit against sugar growers and a $7.8 billion bill signed by President Clinton, the project, said to be the most ambitious such effort in U.S. history, involves buying land around the Everglades and undoing...
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- 17 Nov 2015
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Carbon Neutral
implement a “cap-and-trade” framework—capping the total amount of emissions and allowing companies to trade permits to pollute on the open market—fell apart in the midst of partisan bickering. As Washington fiddles, the world suffers...
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Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2008
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Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
contract, and they know this can breed violence and terrorism. Their democracies seem unable to adopt appropriate remedies. In Asia, they are mostly sanguine about economic growth. But there is concern about the environment, particularly the View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
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Mead Treadwell
sincerely doubt that. It is likely that nations will agree to disagree on some things and agree to agree on the fundamentals. The fundamentals, in my opinion, are that no matter who owns what in the Arctic, we want to make sure that human activity does not bring large...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Rural Renewal
She hired some local help to cultivate the land when she first moved in, but soon decided that she needed to do the job herself. The decision to be an organic farm — one that avoided herbicides, pesticides, and chemical fertilizers — initially came merely because she...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Gore All Business at HBS
WARM WELCOME: On an unseasonably mild December day, after a reception with faculty, staff, and students, Al Gore and Dean Jay Light walk to Burden Hall. We are managing the planet as if it were a business in liquidation,” former U.S. Vice President Al Gore declared to...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home
Not surprisingly, affordable housing has also become a growing problem in the suburbs. Often devoting little thought to housing availability in outlying communities, companies have relocated due to generous tax breaks and other inducements, exacerbating urban sprawl,...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2020
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Inside Out
such thing. The only things akin to this in the United States are the legally enforceable limits set by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) for exposures to pollutants indoors. But before you start thinking that this...
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
pollution on local fauna. That evening, just up the hill in the high-ceilinged dining room of Laurel House, those same children will eat a meal served by a recovering opioid addict whom Marietta hired fresh out of a treatment program....
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
HBS Centennial Event Confronts Present and Future Challenges Rising to the challenge: Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust and Dean Jay Light shared a vision of closer collaboration between HBS and Harvard on 21st-century issues. Faust embraced the importance of...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air
market? The first way to capture pollutants is at the source, whether it’s in an automobile or at a power plant. It’s also the easiest way to do it, because you have a concentrated source of the molecules you’re trying to gather. Next, we...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
do harm—by polluting the environment or exacerbating inequality, for example. Keeping business on a path where it’s seen as a force for good is deeply important. When society loses trust in business, everyone is worse off. We need to...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
night and day, / towers rise as if to say / Pollution can be beautiful.” Bach’s final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds “Demagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams
on a committee in the midst of crafting a national housing policy. And he’s part of a planning group for the city of Kandy, which, in addition to being Mawilmada’s hometown, is a sacred and heavily visited UNESCO World Heritage site plagued by View Details