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have asked about education, occupation, language, even whether a household owned a radio set. Ancestry.com faced its first such test in 2002, when the 1930s census records became public. At 12:01 a.m. on Monday, April 1, the National... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal

1890s, a commissioner and Civil War veteran named Col. George Waring introduced such modern practices as street-sweeping and a uniformed workforce organized along military lines. He even launched something resembling a modern recycling program: View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Jun 2023
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Pet Project

optimized for DTC? Even if retail is where most consumer packaged goods are sold, it will mean lower margins and lower LTV. “So why should we launch a less profitable channel? Is retail critical for an exit or to become a household brand?... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2023
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Case Study: The Home Team

exploiting a Nester report’s connection to a mortgage’s residual income analysis? Residual income is the amount of disposable household income left over after paying for all costs of living. That analysis doesn’t include car-repair... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

09 Feb 2021
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Investing in Entrepreneurship

Courtesy Peter and Missy Crisp Courtesy Peter and Missy Crisp Peter O. Crisp (MBA 1960), a pioneering venture capitalist and philanthropist, is known for his firm’s investments in companies that have become household names: Intel, Apple,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2005
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Power Couple

ship-to-shore, rather than broadcast,” Sarnoff told BusinessWeek (March 7, 2005). “Uncle Dave might look at this narrowcasting phenomenon and think ship-to-shore is coming back.” The Sarnoff household is further wired into media:... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner

between homeownership rates among Black and white people, with white people owning more than 85 percent of household wealth and Black people owning less than 5 percent. Nonetheless, says Abdelal, Baltimore has an unusually troubled... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

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