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Peter Wang Hjemdahl is a Norwegian-Chinese impact entrepreneur and the founder of rePurpose Global, a company that turns plastic waste into social impact. He has a degree from The Wharton School and is based in New York City.
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Peter Wang Hjemdahl. Co-Founder, rePurpose Global. See the world through the rePurpose lens. We are the rePurpose Global family. We’re dreamers and pragmatists, singers and comedians, intellectuals and philosophers — all united by a common passion to create cutting-edge impact and solve the most pressing challenges facing our planet today.
Peter Wang Hjemdahl is the co-founder of rePurpose, a Mumbai-based social enterprise. In May of 2019, the rePurpose team launched reBalance, a platform that allows consumers to make a payment to balance out their individual plastic footprints while supporting waste worker organizations worldwide.
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Peter Hjemdahl is a Chinese-Norwegian social entrepreneur who co-founded rePurpose Global, a plastic action platform. He has spoken at various forums on sustainability, social entrepreneurship, and purposeful business.
- It’S Never Too Late to start.
- Learn from Successful Models.
- Avoid Too Many Moving Parts.
- Stay Committed to The Problem But Be Flexible on The Solution.
- Fail Fast and Fail often.
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Unlike what people think, starting up is actually the easiest part. There are many ways to brainstorm a social issue to solve: watch a documentary, take a class, intern for a NGO, volunteer in your local community, participate in a pitch competition…the list goes on.
Very few innovations are 100% novel, and whatever your million-dollar social entrepreneurial idea is, chances are that it has been done in some corner of the world. Don’t let that discourage you: learn from it, build upon it, and tailor your idea to other parts of the world.
this was something Professor Ian MacMillan said to me during my Hult Prize pitch my freshman year. Doing one thing really really well for one core group of beneficiaries is often much more effective than trying to tackle many things at once in a solution.
Coming up with an idea is easy, but persevering on it is hard. Chances are that your first solution is not going to work in the market, but as long as you are committed to the problem you have set out to solve, you can bring on-board fresh talent, take on a relevant experience that makes you think about the sector from a different light, and ultima...
This lesson is repeated often by the entrepreneurial community, but it is the best advice one can give. Have an idea? Spend as little time on the whiteboard, and learn from your failures in the field. — Peter Wang Hjemdahl, W’18 First published by Wharton Social Impact Initiative March 19, 2018. Posted: March 20, 2018
Peter Wang Hjemdahl shares his journey as a Wharton student and a Hult Prize regional finalist with rePurpose, a venture that empowers waste pickers in India. He offers six tips for aspiring social entrepreneurs based on his experience and mistakes.
Jul 3, 2019 · As soon as he stepped off the car and onto the grounds of Asia’s second-largest landfill, Deonar East in Mumbai, Peter Wang Hjemdahl was met with an arresting view: to one side, towering...
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With the President’s Engagement Prize, Wharton graduates Peter Wang Hjemdahl and Svanika Balasubramanian will boost wages for low-income workers while simultaneously diverting thousands of tons of waste from landfills.
