Harvard Business School

Harvard Real Estate Services, in conjunction with Harvard Parking Services, has placed two 10 kW wind turbines atop the Soldiers Field Park Garage. After almost two years in planning stages, the structures were at last erected and set spinning on a bright day in September, 2009.

The University banded together during the August heat wave to significantly reduce energy consumption.

Join a team of six HBS students who will work approximately four hours per week earning $18 per hour engaging peers in Harvard’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Commitment and Sustainability Principles. As a Green Living Representative, you'll work with other Representatives to promote recycling, waste reduction, and energy and water conservation to your peers through a variety of activities and events.

In his latest comedy special, Chris Rock jokes that in America, consumers often create demand for products or services that are free to the public. One of the products that Rock highlighted was bottled water - specifically emergence of the multi-billion dollar bottled water industry.

It didn’t take long after FAS released photos of campus celebs engaging in President Faust’s Top 10 Actions for the highly competitive HBS community to green their scene too!

The second RC Section Sustainability Competition was due to be a challenging one. With just two public printers having duplex capacity, seeing which section would print the most case write-ups double-sided was sure to be daunting. That was until MBA IT Support Services came through with spooky timing.

The Harvard Business School (HBS) Green Team held the first ever Green Fair on Tuesday, October 21. Present at the fair were the HBS Green Team, MBA Business and Environment Club, Restaurant Associates, Harvard University Commuter Choice, Harvard University Farmers Market, the Charles River Conservancy, the Trustees of Reservations and the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

One look around campus and it is clear that bottled water is in hot supply. Perhaps we missed the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency's standards for tap water are more stringent than the Food and Drug Administration's standards for bottled water.

In September 2003, an ambitious student-initiated project at the Harvard Business School led to the installation of a 192 panel photovoltaic array above Shad Hall. The 36 kilowatt installation prevents the emission of about 75,000 lbs of CO2 per year.