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- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
would not be on the modern woman's birthday, Christmas, or wedding-gift list. This change certainly looks permanent. But is it? Just note the popularity of Downton Abbey!" The book project became a big part of Wilson's life. "For several... View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
which created in me an appetite for exploring and discovering new places and people very early on,” Leger says. At 12, Leger was living in Pondicherry, India, her mother’s hometown, which made her aware of what it meant to live between... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
In the beginning there was the microprocessor. The mass market availability in the early 1980s of this revolutionary piece of technology — which shrank the computer from an unwieldy Goliath of a machine to a compact unit that could fit on... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
modern car making. “Look at that van,” he says, pointing to a white delivery vehicle parked near the Starbucks drive-through, where Rogers refuels. “How do you make steel look like that?” His explanations typically begin with this kind of... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
The Epicenter of Miami’s Vice
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: The dark neon of late 70s and early 80s Miami has long been one of pop culture's favorite settings, from Miami Vice to Grand Theft Auto. Roben Farzad (MBA... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
in subterfuge. No one of them knew the full plan for producing and distributing the posters, and each took a circuitous path to the central Warsaw basement where they would be printed. But as Maj and his friend Janek walked away from the building and through a nearby... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
themes? Eric: The first theme is mechanization. If you were a young person in the early Republic in America and you could build a machine that did what had been traditionally done by hand, you were in the sweet spot of entrepreneurship.... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
working with members of Congress to modernize the rules and processes on the internal side. It’s been about 20 years since we’ve had a commission in this country to look at restructuring the way Congress does its day-to-day business. One... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
spent the better part of the last two years planning and preparing for the early April event. Held in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center and the adjacent Grand Hyatt Hotel, the meeting included two days of intense discussion... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
facing new and terrifying challenges, is torn apart more than ever, increasingly unstable and adrift. Creating Mindful Leaders: How to Power Down, Power Up, and Power Forward by Joe Burton (PMD 75, 2000) Wiley Mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and resilience are the... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and perform about these issues.” Tucker: “I’m a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
University Press) Walter Friedman’s Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America documents the history of salesmanship, from the days of peddlers to the creation of modern sales forces at companies like National Cash... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
on the entire mining industry as well. Carroll’s mettle was tested early on when she was visiting South Africa and learned that another death had occurred in a nearby platinum mine. “That’s enough,” she said, and ordered the mine closed,... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
that has been disrupted by the earthquakes, including agriculture and animal husbandry—to remain in place and not have to settle elsewhere. “This allows them to modernize their lifestyle but still allows them to live with their animals... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to the 62-year-old icon. The redesign is part of an initiative by McDonald’s corporate to modernize the customer experience, which began in the... View Details
- 05 Apr 2018
- News
A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art
permanent collections. Institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chicago Institute of Art, the Tate Modern, and the Museum of Modern Art have showcased these artists in the last half dozen years. Most recently, 70 pieces... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Independently Published In today’s high-stakes game of modern business, many professionals are finding themselves stuck in the rough, struggling to balance their drive for success with personal fulfillment. Despite the long hours and your... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Case Study: Inside Story
with each successful convert. Many startups run out of runway before getting there, so founders need to be particularly scrappy in gaining the most learning in the shortest period of time. That means fast product iterations unlock the greatest growth. But therein lies... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
that become essential to the economic success of fashion designers in the marketplace. (Her research on the market for modern and contemporary fine art in India also bears out this phenomenon.) “One of the most well-accepted axioms of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Destruction SCHUMPETER: Ambivalent about Harvard, uneasy about America, he wondered, “Why am I always so out of sympathy with my milieu?” COURTESY HARVARD UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES, HUGB S276.90 In his 1942 book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Schumpeter begins his... View Details