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- 01 Jun 2012
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Made in the USA
mechanical engineering courses at Northeastern University, and two years as a second lieutenant in the Army (“doing a major’s job”)—proved to be ideal credentials for Knott’s eventual role as founder, president, and CEO of Riverdale Mills Corporation. View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
the ground. He'd arrived there, and he'd looked around, and he'd made that very ominous radio call that everyone in my command could hear, which was, we've located Turbine 33, and there are no survivors. Then we knew that this was going... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
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How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
surprisingly, those teams are located not in the big cities but in small towns. So you don't have a team in Italy in the first league in Rome. I don't know that there ever has been. You don't have a team in Paris that plays in France.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
on-demand business model. Its success was linked to the proliferation of smartphones in the United States, which made quickly ordering a car to the user’s location possible. A similar trend was emerging in Jakarta. That rapid growth of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission
Houston back to her hometown in 2007. “People in Dallas are truly captivated by this venture,” she notes. The facility, to be named the Perot Science Museum, will be located near the city’s sports arena, a few blocks from the new Dallas... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
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Mead Treadwell
monetizable, I like to look at the resources of the Arctic and what they can do for mankind. And it’s not just what we have in the ground; it’s also our location and our air and sea routes. So I think about the economic role that we play... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!
yet-to-be-constructed plant 40 miles from Caen. Viana’s bid to produce luxury madeleines in a new, nearby location with 16 of the original workers was the obvious favorite, but it required an estimated 2.8 million he had yet to secure.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
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Profiles from the Class of 2005
of Severodvinsk, Russia, Natalia Mlotok has witnessed the stark effects of perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev’s program of economic, political, and social restructuring. Located on the White Sea in northern Russia, Mlotok’s hometown was built... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
"Pilots Push 787 Dreamliner to the Limit" - Watch some take-offs and landings best left to the test pilot professionals. "Capturing the Birth of the Dreamliner" - Photographer Ed Turner documented the global effort of manufacturing the 787, traveling to View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
When hotel manager Alessandro Benedetti worked for Kempinski chain locations in Spain and Switzerland, morning meetings were a time to go over the numbers and discuss strategy for the days ahead. But ever since Benedetti moved to Havana... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
dedication to a sense of what is just and fair that explains why she now finds herself in the trenches of local politics, fighting to shift a culture of patronage and mismanagement that has been decades in the making. Located in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a... View Details
- 05 May 2023
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Fail Better
And that was completely fair. In other words, I didn't resent the conclusion. I resented being in the chair, being screamed at. The reason why that's important is I remember leaving the company was located up the Hudson River, you know,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams
brokerage and advisory firm that he hopes to build into, in his words, “the Goldman Sachs of Sri Lanka.” Taking a broad view of the country’s assets, Fernando highlights areas that keep popping up in discussions of Sri Lanka’s economic prospects. Its View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
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Luxe Redux
larger store is scheduled to open in Paris in December.) A boutique’s location and “wow” factor may not always translate to hard-and-fast sales, but image is all-important in the world of luxury. A shopper’s first impression is of utmost... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
managing other accelerators. The effort is a continuation of the government's investment of 5 billion Egyptian pounds in creating a strong startup ecosystem that includes education programs at six Creativa Innovation Hubs located... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
serving as a representative on the Cherokee National Council. During a meeting of its Environmental Resources Group, Senior Director Pat Gwin showed the group a photo of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—a meticulously cataloged collection of more than 1.1 million seed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
the April concert was Tulane University’s Dixon Hall, with a stage that could barely fit all 67 orchestra members. Location was perhaps the least of the LPO’s challenges that night. Many of the musicians were still living in hotels or... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way
Communications Group) has secured $37 million in financing to support wireless communication programs in underdeveloped regions, including sub-Saharan Africa. "We are currently setting up voicemail through wireless public pay phones at over one thousand View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 28 Feb 2025
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Joy to the World
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010), CEO of East Boston Social Centers, spent time in foster care as a child, living in more homes than he can remember,... View Details