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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Inside MTV’s Global Fame
tremendous risk,” he writes. “We were the only media company going local throughout the world, and it was the key to our success.” Roedy, a former nuclear missile–base commander, created an entrepreneurial, innovative organization with a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
service-oriented learning trip to Tōhoku, a region devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear explosion. It launched what would become an annual Immersive Field Course (IFC) in Japan. When the... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
corporate ladder wasn’t for him. He wanted to make a more personal mark in the world. “A principle role model at the time was my uncle, Henry Way Kendall, who was a nuclear physicist, Nobel Laureate, and cofounder of the Union of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
think about democracy and information. If a company from Ghana invented some kind of nuclear missile and wanted to bring nukes through the United States on their way to Canada, you wouldn’t think that was okay. You would say, “Let’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
Maurer, and this November in the Executive Education Global Energy Seminar. The course takes a global view of fossil fuel, nuclear power, and renewable energy, considering all three through the lens of competitive strategy and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
The Nature of Change
School are much different now, Kester observes, yet the Class of 1949 entered a period of uncertainty, characterized by the Cold War and nuclear proliferation, that is not unlike the current anxieties surrounding the war on terrorism.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
that of rigorous enforcer of management-science principles, could coexist with a more personable side, softened by the glow of Camelot. Decisions and policies had to be made regarding history-shaping issues such as the nuclear arms race,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
effective communicator. Martin Shapiro’s 2039 by Martin Shapiro (MBA 1966) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) A dystopian novel depicting a world in which no nuclear explosions or pandemics have occurred, but, in the United... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
had received an appointment to the US Naval Academy at Annapolis while in high school. He had more of a technological bent than did Callaghan, and he studied both systems engineering and nuclear engineering. He was in the Submarine... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
become the greatest gossip, flirt, or matchmaker in history. Or she could cure cancer and then start a nuclear war. A motley band of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and engineers might be able to influence her. The... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
such as, "Other less mobile cultures have more centralized cities, with tighter cultures and families; the United States has urban sprawl, massively wasteful resource usage, looser nuclear families, and much less sense of community." Most... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
with General Dynamics Electric Boat to prepare people to build nuclear submarines for the US Navy and work with Bank of America on programs that prepare individuals for jobs in the financial services sector. We also have a partnership... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
billions of dollars every year on nuclear weapons they are hoping to never use, so what about spending a couple of billion dollars to build plants, teams, and scientific work and projects to equip ourselves so this never happens again?”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
once-classified national security documents, and other sources to show how far we have traveled from the time of our founders, who tried to constrain presidential power, to the present day, when a single leader has the potential to launch View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
regulation of natural gas, nuclear power, and hazardous wastes. A Global Solution Professor Joe Lassiter The flame from a natural gas flare dances in the shadow of an oil pump jack near Keene, North Dakota. “Natural gas is not an economic... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Fukushima’s nuclear reactors, which were designed by GE. But Immelt’s biggest challenge was inherited: Welch had handed over a company that had great people, but was short on innovation. Immelt set out to change GE’s focus by making it... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
time when she was reflecting on her three-decade career working in the gas and electric utilities industry and realized that she could credit a series of strong leaders and mentors for helping her rise through the ranks. Starting as an entry-level technical writer... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
McCarthy, an Officer Engineer on the USS Ohio, leads a department of 70 officers and sailors and is charged with the safe operations of a nuclear power plant and all pressure boundary systems on the submarine. She also serves as a mentor... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
to be treated as scarce; that’s why those cities are configured the way they are.” In his 1961 classic, The City in History, Lewis Mumford penned words amid fears of impending nuclear holocaust that invoke the present era’s own nightmare... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
instability surrounding world oil supplies, the uncertainty about the reserve base and the depletion rate of U.S. oil and gas reserves, the immobilization of nuclear energy in the United States, the challenge of building up an expanded... View Details