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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
QUEZON CITY, THE PHILIPPINES: On the edge of this municipality of Manila lies the Payatas dumpsite, the home and sole provider to thousands of scavengers. Payatas and places like it are symbols of a glaring inefficiency: Amid the global economy's great riches, billions... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Airlines. Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on Earth by Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986) and Steve Gullans (Current) The authors survey how humans are changing the course of their evolution, seen, for example, in rising rates... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
temperate climates that have access to water and are in higher latitudes tend to be more developed than those in lower latitudes with tropical climates and minimal water access. Sachs explained that tropical climates are not good for... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Code name: Miesiąc
massacre. Between December 14 and December 19, 1970, soldiers quelling protests in northern Poland had killed 42 people who had been demonstrating against the government’s decision to increase food prices. Maj, long-haired and lanky at... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
of very high highs, and very low lows. And my experience is really trying to balance both sides, and always constantly remember why I'm there. In terms of the highs the food is amazing, the culture is very vibrant. Lagos is probably the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
them. Ellis draws on his long distinguished career in client services in the financial markets to provide common-sense and accessible advice to anyone with an interest in maximizing their investment returns over the long haul. Inside... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
content being added to an ever-expanding list of platforms that it could be dizzying for a viewer to try to pick something to watch. As director of product, Liang spent her days building tools to help organize the chaos: Say you were in the mood for a horror flick, and... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Bob Ryan first got involved, the business had been neglected. Estes Funeral Chapel, located at the corner of Penn and Plymouth Avenues in North Minneapolis, is easily accessible by light rail. "Rather than looking at this building as... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
ubiquitous on city rooftops, potable water access an egalitarian issue in the city.) These kinds of complications, Benedetti notes, are commonplace. “Last week we had no lemons,” he says with a broad smile. “And Thursday we had no... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Long remembers eating lots of pumpkin — the only food readily available. The early engines of growth were holdovers from the Maoist era: township and village enterprises (TVEs) rooted in China’s vast rural regions, and state-owned... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
by accessing his commitment to the larger purpose. Historians and biographers have pointed to a number of Lincoln’s strengths and their role in his leadership. But one of the most significant of these strengths is not often mentioned, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
explains. “We walked around Candlestick wearing ‘We’re Listening’ buttons, with the goal of improving the fan experience as much as possible until we could build a better park.” New food concessions, the first female MLB public address... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
devices were.” CollaborateUp specializes in bringing corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations together to take on big, complex issues, such as endangered species trafficking, international food security, and... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
United States in 2021. The Juneteenth Story provides an accessible introduction for kids to learn about this important American holiday. The Changing C-Suite: Executive Power in Transformation By José Luis Alvarez (PhD OB 1991) and... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
third-largest telecommunications company in the world. Today, Bharti Enterprises is one of India’s most successful companies, with more than 30,000 employees. In addition to Airtel, its diverse concerns include realty, financial services, and an agri- and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
reversed decades of progress, particularly in places that lack access to vaccines, worsening hunger, poverty, gender inequality, and conflict—the impacts of which could be more deadly than COVID-19 itself. The global picture is... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
scores of patients and experts across a variety of fields, combining patient stories with medical insights and advice from those who have been there, and structured around the typical phases of the process, this book is an accessible... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
visits a noodle shop with an unnecessarily long wait, for example, she’ll reengineer the process in her mind: move the food there, put one employee here instead of two to reduce the line by half. “I’m pretty sure the owner would not... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
those pie charts, that every aspect of the budget is facing cuts—and that every effort is being made to right the ship for the future. After the public comment, the nine-member board turns to an agenda of items that runs from the renewal of a View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
for the 21st century; it also has easy access to both coasts of India, with transshipment to India accounting for about two-thirds of its volume. Just over 2 million tourists visited in 2016, a 300 percent increase since the end of the... View Details