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02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

shipping routes to avoid sanctions—traveling from the United States to Panama to Jamaica before arriving in Havana four to six weeks later. The history of Cuba’s private sector is relatively new, short, and complicated. After the fall of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built

Achievement, the Model UN, the state math contest — if there was a competition, I would enter it.” Thus the youthful Howard became an early adventurer, an exchange student in the American Field Service’s first-ever overseas program. Speaking no French, he View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

02 Jun 2021
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On the Road Less Traveled

part of that. How do you think about your father now? Hajim: I've had friends from the Business School or other places really go downhill in life, you know, and he went as a rocket ship in the twenties, you showed a picture of him next to... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation

particular talent that you wish you had? I wish I had an ear for foreign languages. And I’m not a very good dancer. What was your first job? In college I was a warehouseman at Ford. I would push a cart around and collect instrument panels and bumpers and stuff like... View Details

Keywords: James Aisner;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna;Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans

with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

will give them the $50,000. They will lose it. Then George will go back to teaching at MIT, and my son will concentrate on the family shipping business. They will both benefit, and it will be a small price to pay for an important... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!

madeleines. The workforce is expected to increase from 19 to 25, possibly more. It’s the next phase of Jeannette—with added capacity, the company will be in position to expand its distribution exponentially and ship internationally. The... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

06 Dec 2021
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Rescue & Recovery

of what charity can look like the summer after college. With her Harvard degree in government in hand, she signed up for a service trip and was shipped to a remote area of South Africa to help with a construction project. As she unpacked... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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