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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
bicycle with his two sons (ages 16 and 12) and his 7-year-old daughter. He also serves on the board of San Francisco's Jewish Museum. "I view Judaism as being the source code for Western civilization," Ranadivé remarks. Hindu by birth, he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
coded by the operator — to understand the area’s emergency needs. The third component, the institute portion of EMRI, organizes emergency medicine conferences and helps to focus attention on the need for India to develop emergency... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
indoor-generated contaminants to maintain good indoor air quality. The IRA will accelerate the adoption of proven technologies like Sorbent Ventilation Technology by providing funding for state and local governments to adopt more efficient building View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Insights into Business in Islamic World
who directs the Law School's Islamic Studies Program, explained that such legal systems do not rely on precedents or written codes and have an inherent dependence on religious beliefs. "This law is seen as deriving from direct, divine... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
people in lower socioeconomic groups are much more vulnerable than others. When we started admitting patients with COVID-19, it was quickly noted that about 40 percent of them were Spanish-speaking, which is much more than our baseline. We looked up the zip View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
code something up. It might become Facebook. And we would see a Twitter-- and some people in the audience may know-- Twitter was written in seven days. And technology had changed. And as I looked at this audience, I said, I should try to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Phillips Sawyer Cambridge University Press This book explores the contested political and legal meanings of the term “fair trade” from the late 19th century through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
Are big banks using bankruptcy as a bullying tactic? A recent report by the American Bankruptcy Institute suggested that a longtime—and increasingly popular—mechanism in the US code that allows for expedited, less-democratic asset sales... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
technology that would adapt to my playing style in real time instead of forcing me to fit a recording." Chao was right. She found former concert oboist Christopher Raphael, now chair of computer science at Indiana University, who was using predictive modeling to View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
geo-thermal heat pumps. “Building codes can really move the dial citywide,” Grantham said. Asked what his top climate priority would be if he were Mayor of Boston, Grantham said he would stop issuing permits for building in flood plains... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
pinpoint the roots of the country’s competitiveness problem. The findings allow us to assess whether individual elements of the US business environment, such as the complexity of our tax code or our K-12 education system, strengthens or... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
portfolios in the blink of an eye. They will crack even the strongest digital encryption codes in seconds rather than centuries. (The day quantum computing becomes a reality is the day conventional digital security ends.) They should even... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
need to change your password every six months. You need to have dual factor authentication on your email when you’re away”—for instance, entering a password as well as a code texted to a cell phone. And it starts earlier than your first... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
The flight had been arranged by secret military cable. An elaborate code of flares and signal fires was agreed upon, and the US Army Air Force’s 52d Fighter Group staged a midair diversion over the Adriatic Sea. But these attempts at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
corporate tax code (perhaps “the single most powerful step to improve America’s economic trajectory almost immediately”). The authors argue that while all eight issues enjoy some measure of bipartisan support, the gridlock in Washington... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
compliant? Do you know which spreadsheets you put post-2000 dates into? Consider also the embedded code in peripherals that connect you to your network - one noncompliant machine could bring down thousands. Large organizations have been... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
quite a few companies face this issue. Another challenge is corporate governance. Historically, banks acted as monitors for Japanese companies, and the boards of Japanese companies were dominated by insiders. Last April, however, the commercial View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
Laboratory. I do think technical skills have helped over the years in some of my roles, but that doesn’t mean you need to be a coding ninja. Two students from PM 101 who went on to be very successful had backgrounds as a video journalist... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna