United Nations - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2005
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One-on-One with Grover Norquist

raising taxes. With the Pledge, we branded the Republican Party at the national level as the party that will not raise your taxes. What are your tax reform priorities for the second Bush administration? Year one, kill the “death” estate... View Details

Keywords: Government

08 Sep 2016
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How We Make It Work

two-parent families in the United States with children reported both parents working full-time in 2015—up from less than a third in 1970. For some, there has been a tangible impact on their professional lives, with 30 percent of the Pew... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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We Rise

according to research conducted by private-capital database PitchBook, just 12 percent of check-writing decision-makers at the largest VC firms in the United States are women. A survey by The Information, a tech-sector media outlet, found... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

parents are all engaged in debating both sides of the issue. What would be the fairest solution? Or in Yokohama, Japan. In March 2003, a 22-year-old teaching English at a local junior high school is watching television with other staff members when news breaks that the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

quick: By the end of this year, McDonald’s expects mobile ordering to be available at all its 14,000 locations in the United States, and the self-service kiosks in 2,500 locations. Karavites had seen these technologies previewed at... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

average of 3.2 hours each workday with their children, while employed fathers spend 2.3 hours each workday. Source: The Families and Work Institute's "1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce." Karla (Rose) Middlebrooks Keeping to... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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One-on-One with Tom Oreck

Oreck’s guidance, New Orleans–based Oreck Corporation had steadily grown into a national brand known for its lightweight, powerful vacuums. As it prospered, the company acquired a manufacturing plant eighty miles east in coastal Long... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

continue to do work in the media (when I didn’t know anything about it and was questioning if I could do it), and my first book, Mom Hacks, launched this February and became a national bestseller, and I now appear weekly on CNN—and it was... View Details

Keywords: Dean

01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand

Russia get their businesses up and running. But my top staff had been embezzling money and I had to make the decision to close down the whole operation. I went home to the United States ashamed that I was not prepared for this turn of... View Details

19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

to talk to them—that he needed to address the community as if he were the President of the United States. His daughter's plea led him to record a podcast that did just that, urging the Black community to both keep up the fight and take... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

superiority, but what legacy did the island nation deliver to the world? Covering more than 200 years of history, author Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence... View Details

29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

million people—to make donations to efforts to organizations like Turkey’s AFAD (Disaster and Emergency Management Authority), Red Crescent of Kazakhstan, and the National Volunteer Network. “Kaspi.kz’s mission is to improve people’s... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

private and public sectors can tilt the odds back to our favor—and what victory would really look like. Unite the Fight On February 13, 2015, President Obama announced an executive order that encouraged the exchange of cyberattack data... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

have been hitting best-seller lists lately, and conferences on spirituality and business have been springing up all over the United States and Canada. Web sites dedicated to such topics now pepper the Internet. Even the World Economic... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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