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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

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

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

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

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

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

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

store grew, the space became so crowded that at times the copier was rolled out onto the sidewalk and used for self-service customers. Today, some analysts estimate annual revenues from the privately held chain's 850 business services and copy shops - which are View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

have been economically impacted by the COVID-19 crisis. Using two of the organization's locations to serve as pop-up takeout operations, the Clubs are serving more than 2,000 free meals a night. Those receiving the food—at least half of... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

managing some of the most dangerous mercenaries in Africa, battling rebels with a crew of anti-Castro Cuban exiles, and learning what the rest of the intelligence world was dying to know: the location of Che Guevara. He describes how he... View Details

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