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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Science and Economics of Carbon Recycling
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mining precious metals through e-waste recycling
Every day, Americans throw away enough cell phones to cover a football field. That kind of disturbing statistic is what motivates Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) to extract precious metals from the 50 million tons of electronics discarded, globally, each year. She saw an...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
BRADOO: Mining old tech for gold by Constantine von Hoffman When most people's phones break, all they see is a problem. Privahini Bradoo (MBA 2008) sees an opportunity. Bradoo is the cofounder and CEO of BlueOak Resources, a company dedicated to finding safe ways to...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
“I’m a root-cause kind of guy,” says Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), reflecting on a military, government, and civilian career that has taken him from counterdrug operations in Colombia to assisting with the peace process in Sudan to rebuilding the health care system in...
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- 17 May 2017
- News
Can psychology influence the way we recycle?
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Getting the green light
- 29 Jun 2010
- News
Cash for Clunkers: A Retrospective
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
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
- News
Rounding the Bend
resellers, while 35 percent become feedstock for companies making recycled products—old wool sweaters become new ones, or last year’s fashions become tomorrow’s couch-cushion stu ng. The market for recycled...
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- 31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection
of trying it, breaking it, and making it better. We’re about 10 years into that now. We’re working with this new material, which is called yulex, and now many other surf companies are using it. We’ve actually got it to the point where it really works, and now we have...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
Increase waste recycling in general. And, finally, focus on capturing the energy generated when decades-old trash decomposes. Public policy is a big factor in making a lot of this happen, Jackman points out. For starters, you have to make...
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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared...
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Margie Kelley
- 04 Apr 2024
- News
The Making of a Medical Milestone
then to Harvard for your MBA. Was biotech always in your career plan? In college, I set up an ambulance service in Saint Lucia. Then, during medical school, I started an organization that recycled medical equipment and donated it to the...
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Margie Kelley
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
largest fortune belongs to an electric car, space, solar, peer-to-peer finance, and infrastructure entrepreneur. He got there by working on things that matter. Hopefully soon we’ll be saying that she got there by scaling portable nuclear power, or biological plastics,...
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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 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
line of upcycled drinking glasses. To acquire the raw materials, the founders identified a partner in the Houston area that had relationships with local bars and restaurants. Now, instead of tossing empties in the municipal recycling...
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- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
less so. Taylor contributed to a not-for-profit to help pay airfare to bring orphans to the United States for month-long summer vacations with prospective adopting families. The program ran so well, he doubled his loan the following year. “The View Details
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Limbaugh," Scher laughs. Through various Web sites, the company also helps coordinate volunteers with hundreds of nonprofit groups. Moreover, the Working Assets phone bill (which, Scher proudly points out, is printed on 100 percent post-consumer View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
initiatives that go beyond compliance with national standards. We also started undertaking innovative programs on wastewater effluent reuse as part of our water recycling efforts, as well as energy-efficient projects to reduce our carbon...
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
to millions. "Global recycling rates are only around 30 percent," says Birnbaum, meaning that 70 percent of bottles and cans end up at the dump. "It's criminal." Birnbaum revels in challenging Big Soda. He likes that his product...
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