by Dan Morrell - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union

tracked by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. For voters between the ages of 18 and 29, the picture was even worse, with a 40 percent turnout. Less than 20 percent of Americans have faith in the democratic... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

01 Jun 2018
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What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)

that, not just because it’s the work that we’re doing, but also because I’m able to bring some of my skills from Google to help us run a user-growth campaign to reach people by using some reasonably basic tools of technology.” “A lot of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey

01 Mar 2017
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The Middle Way

On February 1, 2016, a line of First Nations drummers in traditional regalia—elaborate headdresses, each cheek bearing two red streaks—entered from the rear of a packed hall at the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology, and beat a slow, resonant path... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

06 Dec 2018
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Source Code

MORE Listen to Donna Dubinsky explain why we shouldn't fear the Terminator, on the Skydeck podcast Google can identify a dog because the search engine has been fed millions of images of dogs—all labeled as such by humans—and it’s used... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

25 Aug 2022
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Open Market

that she had miscast herself in her own origin story: She wasn’t the starry-eyed tech founder, she was the architect and builder. “I realized that there needed to be someone else—the genius who had the vision to come up with the idea. But then, once they had it, I... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

made to contain the risk that such outside organic matter could introduce. Visitors are asked to dip the soles of their shoes into a shallow plastic water bath, so as to limit contamination by pathogens and insects. Entry into one of the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Back by popular demand, we offer a second collection of alumni recounting their experience at their first jobs. READ MORE Hey, everybody, it's View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air

net-zero emissions by 2050. To accomplish that, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has estimated the world needs an additional 10 billion tons of CO2 removed each year through various mitigation strategies,... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

18 Sep 2019
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Level Up

fed by some four thousand media sources that can give sports business executives an immediate idea of what platforms, products, or people are moving the industry—and which ones aren’t. “We’re helping our clients stay on top of comparative... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery and Dan Morrell; illustrations by Matt Chinworth

15 Sep 2016
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Competing Against Luck

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

help. Founded in 2012 in Washington, DC, by Dan Mindus (MBA 2008), the group of more than 90 has become one of the most active tech investors in that city, providing financing and networking opportunities to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White