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- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
“going to school” from their cars in Walmart parking lots. We’ve known that intellectually, but teachers and classmates are actually seeing students on Zoom in cars. Looking more globally, we know that as a result of the pandemic, in...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
writes, “is a car stuck in a rut: Managers put the pedal to the metal and dig the rut deeper.” In Revival of the Fittest, he offers managers the tools and frameworks they need to get their organizations rolling once again. — Deborah Blagg...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
speed limits (rather than by prohibiting cars or leaving the risk entirely to the market to resolve), we need to do much the same in managing the risk posed by the largest financial institutions. Above all, we must limit their leverage,...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
partnering with corporations and entrepreneurs to unveil parking apps, bike-sharing programs, and Wi-Fi networks in greener, more vibrant, more connected cities. And we learn about much-needed efforts to reduce our dependence on the gasoline tax in our new electric...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
would be stadium seating, but that's about it. It's remarkable. And not in a good way." Lopez, it seems, is just getting warmed up. "Can you imagine driving the same car in 2010 that you drove in 1977, with the same features? There's...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good
was seriously injured in a car accident was astonished to receive a visit from McArthur in the hospital even before his frantic wife could get there. It is rumored — but not confirmed — that he welcomed premature babies into the world...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Bertini (DBA 2006) and Oded Koenigsberg The MIT Press Would you rather pay for health care or for better health? For school or education? For groceries or nutrition? A car or transportation? A theater performance or entertainment? In The...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
(I've always been a car buff!) when I was ten. I can remember going with my dad to the stockbroker's and sitting there watching the NYSE and AMEX tapes, learning all the companies' symbols. And when I was in graduate school in applied...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Regarding a proper role for government, Reinhardt believes that a fuel tax would make the externalities involved and the cost of driving directly visible, with consumers demanding more fuel-efficient cars as a result. As for the new...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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How to Survive Past Start-up
wound up in right after school. Michel didn’t even own a car until after his second entrepreneurial windfall. For the successful entrepreneurs I got to know, money was important, but I think two things were more important: teaching others...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It
fueling the automobile has dominated world industrial development." Another described the car as "revolutionizing the role of transportation in everyday life and business. It made more of America accessible, resulting in the generation of...
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- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
the Federal Reserve did surveys in the past few years, they discovered that 40 percent of Americans would have to borrow money if they had a $400 car repair bill. We have a lot of people who are on the edge. And if you look at the people...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
financial district of Brooklin to the favelas of Real Parque. Cars buzz by. "See here?" she says, pointing to the bridge. At 6:30 p.m. on most days, it is a sea of snarled traffic, a city hallmark. But when Brazil's national team kicks...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
friends roll their eyes at me, but my only car is a 2000 Nissan Maxima. I guess I’m most excited about money as a way to save time, which is much more valuable to me. What was the most important thing you learned about entrepreneurship...
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- 04 May 2018
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How to Win the Kentucky Derby
best suits, and all the shoes are shined. And everybody from that point, they get into cars or Ubers or buses or anything else to get them to Churchill Downs. And then you get a chance. The races, they usually start about 11:00 o'clock....
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
for disabled travelers and their companions. THE BREHMS: On location in Lisbon, working to make the world accessible to individuals with physical challenges. Photo courtesy of Darren Brehm In 1993, Faith and I were seriously injured in a View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City
the development reshaping the center of the city. As we near our destination, Cummings notes that by car Brightmoor’s distance from the revitalization in Detroit’s business district is just about the same as the distance from downtown St....
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
fiber-optics for landlines, and now seeks new ways that wireless networks could run everything, including cars and refrigerators. It has projects in development with GM’s OnStar and in cloud computing. In addition, Verizon CEO Lowell...
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- 22 Sep 2017
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The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
there. And meanwhile, on that street, South Bayshore Drive, were all these Lamborghinis and Masserattis and Porsches and Benzes and limos. And people called the pride of place to tip the valets to kind of box out the scene and make sure your View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
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Code name: Miesiąc
Maj met at the bus stop in front of Riviera Student Dormitory, following which they went to their room. Maj was saying that after he escaped from the park, he was hiding in a dark corner [of an alley].... He kept standing there until 9:00 a.m. He said that he had seen...
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