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- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
increasing the welfare of poor people in poor countries. Nongovernmental organizations are largely staffed by altruistic employees and volunteers working towards ideological, rather than financial, ends. Their founders are often intense,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
kids being kids, he often had to negotiate peace on the field. “I had to keep people from fighting,” he says, “because I couldn’t fight everyone.” Eamer is also even-keeled, a quality that is perhaps equal parts nature and nurture. While on a View Details
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Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 03 Jul 2024
- News
Surviving the Iditarod
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
and the collateral sales that business generated was at stake. Now the message did indeed get through to the West Coast, and “the executive staff meeting the following Tuesday couldn’t have been more unpleasant.” Davidow “either View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
controversial) shift in its business model from "retail" projects involving individual volunteers to "wholesale" projects with for-profit partners from the San Francisco Bay Area. Its CEO has to decide whether and how...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
what's going on with the security people, concessions, merchandise, and on and on. You can learn something from virtually any event. "Then yesterday, by contrast," she continues, "I spent two hours huddling with our advisory group on disability access, a group of View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Strategic Services in 1944 to train European resistors, this is the essential handbook to help stamp out unintentional sabotage in any working group, from major corporations to volunteer PTA committees. While the manual was written...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
professional skills, college credits, an educational stipend, and corporate apprenticeships leading to full-time employment. Courtesy Year Up As a young Wall Street banker in the 1980s, Gerald Chertavian volunteered as a Big Brother,...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
in particular, received steady, low-key infusions of technology and volunteer time — spearheaded by faculty members like Jim Cash, but backed steadfastly by the Dean’s Office. “But John didn’t want the newspaper story,” Menino emphasizes....
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- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
workforce pipeline to groom local interns and AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers for full-time positions at the school, where he pushes them to pursue postsecondary training. And he’s hired a number of ex-miners and other refugees from...
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- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
Marketing is important in campaigning. It is equally important in governing. In 2008, Barack Obama won the presidency with an uplifting call for hope and change. He leveraged online media to attract volunteers and donors, building a swell...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
a large margin, and a non-financial reward, respectively. The analysis yields three main findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract, and are also...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
branches of the armed forces as well as the civilian ranks. Green and his men, all volunteers for this duty, were tasked with retrieving the American airmen who had been downed in Axis territory; about 60 were already gathered in Banská...
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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
institution; a number of volunteer student organizations were formed to reach out to the surrounding community; and the term "social responsibility" found its way into case discussions with some degree of regularity. "Looking back, those...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
individual volunteers for a two- or three-year term to keep the whole community functioning smoothly. We also learn that the Zapotec sense of time comes from the sun, not a watch. It’s a difficult adjustment to make from our overscheduled...
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to the Tohoku region, where they will stay at a traditional Japanese ryokan. They will soak in hot spring baths (Onsen) and eat dinner wearing a yukata. Students will engage in volunteer work during their stay in Tohoku, as well as advise...
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