Repair - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 May 2020
News

“Walking a Tightrope”

the Federal Reserve did surveys in the past few years, they discovered that 40 percent of Americans would have to borrow money if they had a $400 car repair bill. We have a lot of people who are on the edge. And if you look at the people... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

Japanese ultimately sold virtually all their U.S. properties at a loss. Repairing the damage done by the crash created opportunities to rebuild the business and make it stronger. Morgan Stanley’s Slaughter cites three fundamental, lasting... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

01 Dec 2020
News

The Camel and the Unicorn

the captains then got a bunch of crew. Morrell: Take the example of the Essex, the whaling boat whose story became the inspiration for Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. The principal owners of the Essex invested in some repairs in the aging... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

call offices and repairing broken headsets. Ladak also notes that 20 percent of the company’s employees are women—a percentage that sounds small until you consider that a woman working outside the home in Afghanistan is still widely... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

Floor hand Ray Gerrish works to make repairs on a drilling rig outside Watford City. Employees work around the clock at Raven Rig No. 1, one of more than 150 oil rigs in the Bakken. (photos by Jim Gehrz/Minneapolis Star Tribune/ZUMA Press... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Mar 2017
News

The Middle Way

worked.” “It’s not a quick fix,” adds Holmes. There are deep repairs still necessary, she notes, both cultural and environmental. That work continues. “But it is enormously helpful to have this kind of blueprint.” The protections hammered... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

repairs, in addition to billing for repairs to the personal vehicles of district employees, for a total of $785,195 from 2005 to 2017. The mechanic and his wife—neither employees of the district—also received full health benefits from... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Mar 2019
News

The Fight Beyond

civilians and wounded soldiers, but Bari hesitated. Finally, on October 18, Bari agreed to send a flight “soon” to pick up more downed American airmen. Days passed. Each morning the men would repair bomb damage to the airfield and then... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

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