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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
countries and annual revenues in excess of $126 million. The privately financed organization has nearly 5 million members. Under his leadership, the WWF has launched an ambitious new strategy to focus its efforts on protecting nineteen of...
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2008
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Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
might create conditions harmful to its progress. In addition, we wondered what forces, largely or completely unrelated to capitalism, might challenge it from the outside. And if capitalism is threatened, what can be done to protect it,...
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- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Sustainable Farming in the Arid World
investing in the sector, I really thought there had to be a better way to go about this business, to create a more stable business, one that takes less of a toll on the environment. “Sundrop Farms is a developer, owner, and operator of View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
says, we're all about building a world that is 'just, humane, and environmentally sustainable.' " On this particular day, the petite, dark-haired Scher is wearing a business suit -- "I'm hosting a public event later today," she explains...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 02 Feb 2017
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A Vision for the Earth
snapshot, in an instant. From my perspective, most of the Earth looks beautiful—it’s in great shape—but you can really see some of the environmental challenges and impacts that we have. “The most important impact or difference that we...
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- 14 Dec 2015
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Mobilizing Action on Climate Change and Water Quality
Micheal C. Kennedy (MBA 1985) is director of Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency. In this video, he talks about the need for public education and cooperation in areas of water quality and how to combat...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Water for Life
— water provision to the urban poor, water education, and environmental protection — that reflect the social issues we can address as a water and wastewater service provider. These programs were carefully...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A lifelong mission to save the oceans
Andreas Merkl (MBA 1989) is on a mission to protect the world’s oceans. The president and CEO of the Ocean Conservancy is devoted to supporting delicate ocean ecosystems—guarding against overfishing and pollution—and to shaping...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
A COYOTE SPOTTED resting on Ohiri Field in November was later found wandering on Harvard Way near Morris Hall at 3 a.m. A Mass. Environmental Police investigation found that the animal "posed no danger." THE FALL I-LAB SCRAMBLE student...
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- 13 Dec 2011
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Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
Charnovitz, George Washington University; Stacey M. Childress, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Mihir A. Desai, HBS; Daniel C. Esty, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and Yale Law...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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The Myth of Laissez-Faire
taxes bring us? Improved schools, universal health care, energy and environmental solutions, better jobs and rising incomes, and the flexibility to deal with abrupt changes in the world. In short, the standard of living will once again...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
photo by Christina Gandolfo photo by Christina Gandolfo Dan Rosenfeld (MBA 1979) witnessed the birth of the modern environmental movement while growing up in Portland, Oregon, an experience that has shaped his perspective as a real estate...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2011
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‘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 View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
government is trying to open them to well-controlled commercial logging but most of the companies entering Liberia’s forests today are unqualified and unscrupulous. Bribery drives the allocation process. The government is not yet capable of enforcing its own View Details
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- 01 Mar 2017
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The Middle Way
Nations hadn’t weighed in: Seventy percent of all the 200 types of forests in the Great Bear region would be protected from logging. As negotiations began, the parties fell along their expected lines: Forestry wanted to mitigate profit...
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Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Case Study: Glass Half Full
can be turned into usable products. The company ships the glasses in carbon-neutral packaging, with an additional carbon offset to guarantee the product’s neutral environmental impact. The market for glassware in the United States...
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- 19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit
redefine the meaning of success in business. B Lab’s mission is to assemble a global community of Certified B Corporations, which are companies that meet certain prescribed standards of social and environmental performance, public...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk
of Energy and Environmental Protection and Yale Law School; Robin Greenwood, HBS; Rosabeth Moss Kanter, HBS; Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management; Robert Z. Lawrence, Harvard Kennedy School; Josh...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
Happens: Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don’t by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA 2001) Wiley Why do some changes occur, and others don’t? What are the factors that drive successful social and environmental movements, while...
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