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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
Victor Vescovo (MBA 1994) had been descending through the waters of the Pacific Ocean for more than two hours. The headlights on the exterior of his state-of-the-art submersible illuminated only a tiny slice of this strange world. An... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Kilimanjaro
athletic adventurers — the majority had run marathons — spent six days trekking through a variety of landscapes, weather conditions, and challenges to reach the summit at 19,340 feet. At a slide show of the trek that climbers gave in Zanzibar, those of View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
comes in a bit light or damaged. If we get an overshipment, we call right away and say, “You may not know this, but you sent us ten extra cases which you did not bill us for. We’ll gladly pay for them.” We... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
in really powerful, and helpful and constructive ways. Hanna: And I'm guessing sunscreen too, right? Raiser: Lots of sunscreen. Lots of hats with a chin strap for the wind. A gallon and a half of water a day. All the food you need, plus a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
Brown: Some of the Americans had a hard time catching on at first. We had accomplished international players like John Incledon (MBA 1965) from Wales, Jacques Ferrari (MBA 1965) from France, plus six or seven other Europeans and Australians. They were frustrated with... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
considered the fourth sister for the protection they provide from damaging winds. Their seeds also distract birds from the corn.) Keen wades into the mass of foliage, checking the corn's progress: "Oh, cool. A little bird relative dropped View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
customer. ET then went a step further, locating an aluminum extruder in China that would manufacture some of the parts used in the panels. “We ship in 48 hours from our Singapore partner’s warehouse to the customer’s facility,” Sharpe... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
kitchen, how it’s designed and how it flows is to help us achieve those really high throughputs. And some of the customer engagement you were talking about is really designed to help people understand and appreciate all the new things on... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
continue to examine the planet, and send back information that will be useful in helping NASA understand how astronauts—and possible future colonists—will be able to survive the intense radiation that bombards its surface. By choosing to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
I live in the Bay area. I love to get out and run, and bike, and hike, and I think that those are kind of the real kind of head-clearing opportunities and yeah I have a lot of revelations in long showers. My wife isn't super happy about, you know my View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
fact that my parents had a home that was right on the glide path going into LaGuardia Airport. We used to look up and see the airplanes going by, and I think they had an impact on me as a kid. My parents also, when I was 15, decided to go... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
presentation and said, "Ray, looks to me like the numbers on page three are different to page seven, and different to page 17." And he said, so help us understand that. I said, well, I think that should be right. He said, no, no, no. I've... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
systems allow the facility to use about 1 percent of the water required by traditional farming counterparts, while producing the equivalent of a 400-acre farm in just 27,000 square feet of space. It’s as if... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
organizations to render aid. If any of our alumni are looking to connect with one another, we recommend using the Alumni Directory together with the secure Alumni Messaging Service to communicate (click on the envelope icon on any alumni... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
worries by emphasizing green energy use and decreased water consumption. Meanwhile, lab-grown diamonds, which first entered the commercial jewelry market in the late 1980s and are forecasted to be 10 percent... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
matter. This performance wasn’t going to be judged on technical proficiency or exacting execution. There was still no gas or drinking water in the Lower Ninth Ward. Tens of thousands of residents were still displaced. There was an ongoing... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
eventually purchased in Observatory Hill was moldy, with terrible indoor-air quality and standing water in the basement. Over the last three years, Harper, through her company, Birchwood Sustainable Development, turned it into a beautiful... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
whom are women, who average under a dollar a day per capita income. Since cassava spoils within three days of harvesting, it is traditionally used in small-scale family cooking. Roughly 40 percent of the annual harvest is lost due to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
access to some kind of electronic records system, only about half really use them. And backsliding into their old clipboard-and-paper ways of doing things leads to mistakes. For example, an estimated 30 percent of abnormal Pap smear... View Details