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- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Seeding a Better Future for Colombia
forward-looking investment is just what the country’s presence in Milan is designed to elicit. “The perception has been that Colombia is a dangerous country,” he notes, “but we are turning the page. We’re getting ready to play a huge role in feeding the estimated 9... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
Hunter (MBA 1981) via LinkedIn IN RESPONSE: David, I would go a step further. Yes, there is a lot that can be done to improve care delivery; your idea is a good one, though even that is just a Band-Aid on the bigger problem. When the larger ecosystem results in... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 16 Oct 2013
- News
Progress Through Preservation
build as sponges to soak up rainwater and storm runoff. "It's not just about preserving land," says Rogers, "but making it useful for communities." Overpopulation? As the population grows, the need for those local parks and natural areas... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
transaction. I actually learned how money moved around the country, which explained something that had been a mystery. There’s no question that our business is serving a way more diverse population than it served in prior generations, and... View Details
- 23 Aug 2020
- News
In the UK, She Leads the Search for a COVID Vaccine
Oxford University, is also making a plan for when a vaccine does become available. While a small portion of the UK population is staunchly “anti-vax” her primary concern is those who are fearful of how quickly the vaccine is being... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Raising the bar to provide quality education
my husband and I—he’d been involved from the beginning at ARK—we moved to California and decided we wanted to help children in our backyard there. We serve a population of low-income, mostly minority children, whose choices are public... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
only on the unmet user needs of moms, millennials, and dogs, but really none on the soon-to-be 25 percent of our population that’s age 60-plus,” she says. Levy started writing business plans for companies she thought should exist but, she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Life Green Day Related Links What businesses can do to make a difference Takeaways: Preparing for the population boom Case study: Slum for sale Conference report: Investing in Cities of the 21st Century Making a Difference in the World -... View Details
- 23 Aug 2017
- News
Developing Leaders Behind Bars
Personally, I was also there to learn more about the population of incarcerated people – now up to 2.2 million just in the United States. What surprised you most about the prison and the people you met? After an hour of security... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
population doubled from 500 million to 1 billion. There was and is—in terms of quality of property—still some catch-up to do. It’s said that China is in a better position than the developed world to elongate the business cycle using... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
geographic: Japanese stars who come to US cities with a large Japanese population—Los Angeles and New York, for example—can convert those populations into increased ticket and merchandise sales. (All major league teams share national TV... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
School of Hard Knocks
I was fortunate the reservation didn't have a tribal high school. Graduating students were funneled into a much larger public school about 20 miles off the reservation, and I was suddenly in the majority ethnic population (white) and no... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Action Plan: Happy Honey
“Everyone gets to be an undertaker,” he says, pointing through a windowed hive at a bee dragging away a dead peer. Price has been spreading his love of honeybees for 10 years through his Sweet Virginia Foundation, which is dedicated to raising schoolchildren’s interest... View Details
Keywords: Amy Rogers Nazarov
- 20 Jan 2017
- News
Bringing Power to the People
building a solar plant of 100 megawatts that will supply power to roughly 200,000 people. And it will be at the cheapest price ever in the region. “We are going to build a solar plant in Mozambique. The electrification rights of Africa is about 20 percent, so 80... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
One key to becoming more integrated into the global marketplace will be southern Africa's ability to respond to the radical economic and social changes taking place in its own backyard. "This not only poses complex challenges for managers, business leaders, and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
his way to meet a class, places like Payatas, or the teeming streets of Calcutta, or the favelas of Rio de Janeiro — places where only the entrepreneurial survive — are never far from his mind. According to the World Bank, nearly half the world’s View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
they write, can we simply view education as what takes place in school buildings. “Such a narrow-minded focus has proved inadequate to the task of moving large populations out of poverty. We must broaden the focus of education to... View Details
- 16 Dec 2010
- News
The Emergent Arab World
frequently “turn against their own people” and a business community that too often “can’t stand on its own two feet.” Going forward, Obeid said, the focus should be on the 65 percent of the MENA population that is under 30 years of age,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
equal outcomes: The 32 percent of the wealth they wanted the richest 20 percent to own also signified that they wanted the poorest 20 percent to own just over 10 percent of the wealth. At the same time, it is hard to imagine how a country in which the top 20 percent of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
settlement housed European immigrants who worked on the railroads and at the port. Throughout the decades, multiple attempts at forced eviction and resettlement failed, though one late-1970s effort reduced the population to just 1,000. A... View Details
Keywords: April White