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Analytics & Technology
What Would You Fight For?
More than 700 million people worldwide lack access to clean water. Business professors Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez and Chengcheng Zhai are fighting for universal access to clean water by helping organizations optimize how they manage, maintain, and build water pumps to reduce water scarcity.
Analytics & Technology
Handpumps bring water to rural African communities, but many are broken
A team of operations management researchers look at how nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) manage and maintain rural water systems.
The Conversation
Analytics & Technology
New model offers ‘clear path’ to keeping clean water flowing in rural Africa
Research is helping NGOs provide more consistent and safe access to water for more than a million people across the three countries.
Faculty Research
The HOPE Lab hosts its first international conference
Faculty and graduate students exchanged ideas and presented research about humanitarian operations at the inaugural HOPE Research Workshop.
Features
Theory to Practice
Mendoza scholars are creating business laboratories that illuminate truths about technology and humanity and offer industry fresh insights.
Features
Head, Heart & Hands
At Mendoza, a different kind of business research is blossoming that bridges the gap between scholars and practitioners to create benefits for society.
Research
Pathways out of Disaster
As the world faces disasters of increasing magnitude, Alfonso Pedraza-Martinez’s research employs humanitarian logistics to find solutions.