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- 01 Dec 2022
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My First Job
at Kwinters, the hot-dog stand in my local mall, where I learned how to cook five varieties of hot dogs, managed cash, cleaned the oily fryers and greasy hot-dog containers, and earned minimum wage. It was a great initial lesson in how, sometimes, you have to roll up... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pinball Wizard
with one big exception - it's a clean, well-lighted place. "Most parents don't want to go into a dirty old arcade," Simon noted. "I want to create an inviting atmosphere for the whole family." Prior to getting back into the family line of... View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
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Finding Her Place
wouldn’t say ‘innovation’ is a dirty word in nonprofits, but it is one that is not spoken often,” she acknowledges. Under Hudson’s leadership, the organization—which runs two facilities with about 800 beds and access to medical,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
climbed out of poverty. I promised myself that I wouldn’t forget what want felt like and how hard I had found it to prop up my dignity. My mom went shopping at night to have a smaller audience and fewer dirty looks as we rifled through... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
her to focus on innovation in her first several years in the role. “I wouldn’t say ‘innovation’ is a dirty word in nonprofits, but it is one that is not spoken often,” she observes. Hudson wants Chapman to be a leader in embracing new... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
simultaneously shifting away from dirty diesel to clean solar generation. So I think there's a great opportunity for us, in more developed countries, to bring in investment and relatively basic finance techniques to allow these countries... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
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The Complete Package
“You have to be honest and deliver on what you have promised.” Essential entrepreneurship skill: Driving a 14-foot pickup and a warehouse forklift. “Sometimes you must really dirty your hands,” she says. “The men would always be very... View Details
Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; sustainability; packaging; leadership; women; Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
clean up a beach, and no one is going to buy that plastic, the beach will just get dirty again.” Later, Goodwin would learn how bad the problem is, with 11 million tons of plastic garbage entering the ocean each year. Over 80 percent of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
postcollege when I was working at Lotus Development, creating interactive marketing demos for various products. I really liked the experience of getting my hands dirty working with designers and producers. And I got lucky, because I met a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
and telecommunications. “We had access to high-level people,” says Sterling Cross (MBA 2017), who worked with a team on inner-city transportation. “They were willing to get their hands dirty with us and really listened to our ideas. It... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
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My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
rely on dirty or dangerous energy sources like kerosene lamps and diesel generators. The Soccket is not unlike Matthews herself: a bundle of energy using play to change the world. Creating things seems to come naturally to Matthews, who... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
build this muscle and it becomes less dirty feeling or awkward. EB: It's beautifully said. As a first-time book author, I have occasionally reflected on why I chose to write a book. Of course it was for two awesome co-authors, but part of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
a dirty product that was a consequence of deregulation. Our government decided at some point it was OK to sell instruments that were known to be dangerous. “You can’t go anywhere in America and buy a toaster that has a one in five chance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
magazine added that “the U.S. just might be the world’s biggest washing machine for dirty money.” Baker concurs, noting that the U.S. Treasury Department asserts that virtually 100 percent of dirty money... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
everything was being paid for in cash, the fact that you had all these banks popping up on Brickell Avenue, which is known as kind of the Wall Street of Miami, that were just there to take dirty money. You would pay people before money... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
were painted stark white and were inhospitable down to the dirty slippers that patients traded for their shoes at the door. The reception area of the Yoga clinic had all the comforts of a wellappointed hotel lobby: plush couches, orchids,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
dumped into Iraq after the overthrow of the regime. It was the main market for cars coming from the Gulf area. It was a very, very scruffy and dirty town. As we moved up into Iraq proper, we followed the main north-south Euphrates... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
Chief among vertical farming’s costs is energy. “It’s the industry’s dirty little secret,” says Lo. So noticeable is indoor farming’s drain on a local grid, she notes, that law enforcement used to monitor spikes in electricity demand to... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
coordination between sales, marketing, and, crucially, manufacturing. As an egomaniacal, 30-year-old marketing maven, I had been conditioned to look down on the “functional groups” run by people without advanced degrees who got their hands View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios