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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
layering of political polarization that we will collectively come to our senses in the next generation. The other generational hope that I have is for the younger people. Kids these days are not on Facebook. That’s for grandpa. They don’t...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Ink
send employees and supporters over to the big chain store to buy it, bring it back, and sell it for a penny less.” THE MARKET TESTING “I told this Freezy Frosty story to my kids for years. And they would tell their friends, who would come...
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- 20 Sep 2013
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Connections Add Up
lessons about choices and tradeoffs are about more than money—and even more powerful. "An economist in my network in Memphis was asking kids what they had learned, and one said, 'I learned not to join a gang.'" Her passion needed a...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
feed seniors, the sick, and foster kids while helping restaurants earn more money. Our goal is to sign up 10,000 restaurants across the country,” says Jadhav who is recruiting restaurants, volunteers, and donors. SEPTEMBER 4 Neel Ghose...
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- 13 Dec 2017
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Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
talk to that person. Because you can't say to somebody, well, wait a minute, though—don't you think he's kind of racist? I mean, you you have to say what's going on? How do you think there's a way to do this kind of research? So we got this View Details
- 11 May 2017
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Going with the Flow
cash flow. “My father had a CPA firm and occasionally acted as an angel investor,” she says. “In all, he helped start 30 different businesses in our area. He occasionally brought my sisters and me into the businesses as a learning exercise. I sat in on board meetings...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
administrator on his team. After her father, Sergeant Jerome Lemon, was killed in Iraq in 2004, the nonprofit stepped in to help fund Jervon’s college education. Today, she speaks to the kids who are just like her. “So she’s on the phone...
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Maureen Harmon
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
aren't laughing, and we plunge into those opportunities, into that struggle, and into that work. Let me ask you, what is the most meaningful moments of your lives? Like tell me what has been meaningful to you. And if you had to distill this down for your View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
be rectified.” Major changes included individualizing resource allocation and basing it on a child’s educational needs (“In Seattle, the schools with the smallest classes, the most teachers, and the most resources are the ones with the View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
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Disrupting the Criminal Supply Chain
science and engineering. But those paths never felt like quite the right fit. "Since high school, I had done volunteer work with homeless kids and vulnerable children and domestic violence victims," she says. "Somehow, that really spoke...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects
horror has taken an enormous toll. My son has only sixteen kids in his pre-K class. Two of them are now fatherless. In one street, just a few blocks away, there are four missing people." Also in New York, Nan J. Morrison (MBA '87)...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
our health and the bottom line. There are two parts to his equation: time and money. Let’s start with time: studies have found that in North America and Europe we spend 90 percent of our time indoors. It isn’t a perfect formula—some jobs have you out and about more,...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
has been the inability for folks to be able to manage their personal family lives with kids studying at home. Not everybody has a setup where partners are able to split the work. But outside of that, there’s the benefits of lower stress...
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- 02 Mar 2017
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Such Great Heights
in 2006. White: What was it that attracted you to mountaineering? Vogl: As kids I think we sort of naturally gravitate towards climbing trees or spending time playing in the outdoors. I also always have loved the snow. And so for me,...
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- 01 Jun 2020
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Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
back to the office. You know, we're seeing the humanity in our co-workers as they balance at-home learning with their kids or barking dogs or messy hair. And that's gonna be really hard to return to shallow conversation exchanges at the...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Offshore Learning
National Science Foundation grant to implement an ambitious inquiry-based science curriculum.” Highest and Best Use With that synergy as a starting point, since 2009, Thompson Island’s Connections program and the science department of Boston Public Schools have...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Banishing Balkan Ghosts
around in the fridge, he cocks an ear toward the snippets of TV news in the background: “Labor unrest...Organized crime...Protesting pensioners.” Welcome to Belgrade and the legacy of Milosevic. Now meet the man who wants to change all that — Bozidar Djelic (MBA/MPA...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2006
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Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
become one of the first female executives at Sports Illustrated in 1983. She had acquired a passion for sports from her father and "had been a Sports Illustrated fan for years and really enjoyed the magazine," she recalls. Moore founded Sports Illustrated for View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed
university storage facility, benefits from student energy. They buzz about the expansive lab space, which is stocked with 3D printers, circuit board builders, and a wall full of electronic parts and wires. Two other sections of the facility offer access to heavy...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
now if K-12 education performance doesn’t substantially improve?” The consequences of each year sending tens of thousands of unprepared kids into a harshly competitive world are already clear. They include rising social safety net...
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