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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Mariner (MBA '78), CFO of the 1997 World Series champion Florida Marlins, traces baseball's major turning point to the mid-1970s when several players, supported by a Supreme Court ruling, established their legal claim to "free agency"... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
and the state (“made manifest in better tax compliance, fewer court actions, and less corruption”), reversing the brain drain (“we must get back the tens of thousands of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
cancers.” Hundreds of millions of dollars later, there is no doubt that strategy has worked. Most important, those donations have had a tangible impact. “One hundred percent of the money funds rare cancer research and clinical View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
enacted a number of intellectual property laws and set up a criminal court to prosecute violators, violations are difficult to police, especially when local governments openly support businesses that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
rapid urbanization, sedentary lives, and bad diets. It requires a holistic approach where engineers, designers, and clinicians work together. What lies ahead? We have a clinical View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; housing; gay rights; diabesity; disability; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
Medina and his cofounders had courted at GroupTalent were interested in Outreach’s product, but usage wasn’t growing as quickly as the founders had hoped. Plus, the company faced the challenge of making... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
Last year, foreign investors set new records for their acquisition activity in the United States. And 2008 began with nearly daily stories of American financial executives courting foreign direct investors,... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
and it is incredibly rewarding to meet the young men, who are energized to start anew if only someone would give them the opportunity,” MacDonald observes. Reset started with 10 students in a daytime pilot program in San Francisco. Not... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
clear that, even with that value, you had execution issues that kept you up at night,” she said of the MLIM decision. As the team packed up to head to the Shad basketball courts to congregate with the rest of the 1,400 students View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
hoped to start a new life with their young son in their adopted country, but the immigration process would not be an easy one. “Everything was opaque and scary,” Wang says. “It was our one shot at being able to stay.” Stymied by the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
public - and corporate - esteem. He notes that the SLOC is on track to secure its target amount of nearly $1.4 billion in private funding. Romney is courting new corporate sponsors, particularly high-tech... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
rotational program. And it was a trial by fire, because one of the rotations was at night, so I worked the graveyard shift, and I was a team supervisor in a plant environment,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time
approached as a series of experiments. You don't know what tasks are needed to complete the product, but you can still plan which sequence of trials to run. Developing products in a turbulent setting requires a process that does not avoid... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
high-profile California. To the consternation of the trial bar, his advocacy group placed three initiatives (ultimately unsuccessful) on the state's March 1996 ballot. On the smoking front, Tobias, a Slavic languages View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
living suite with a Brazilian stock broker, a Japanese television producer, a Botswanan chemical engineer, and a Danish medical trials manager. The cohort, eight in total, were able to share their unique... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
For his part, Baker believes multinationals are engaged in increasingly risky behavior. He notes that two major European multinationals with SEC requirements in the United States were recently fined for corruption activity that had no U.S. content. View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
- 21 Jun 2022
- News
Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
before heading to Harvard Law School. He went on to serve as a Legal Aid attorney, a Providence Housing Court judge, and then a professor at Roger Williams University School of Law, where he cofounded the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
companies. With developments such as the recent Supreme Court decision allowing companies to spend more freely on political campaigns, the importance of corporate governance is likely to grow. Many boards are effective, View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
or more mindful drinking is bigger than just Vanessa and myself. So we said, let’s see if we can create a product that actually serves that market.” After a lot of trial and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley