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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
that to be effective, you need a mission heart and a business mind. There are many committed organizations in the poorest, most austere, and dangerous places in the world that are led by individuals who know what needs to be done, but... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
reasonable livelihood.” Van Gerpen, who is single, brushes aside questions about her personal safety. “What’s worrisome is not my own situation,” she says, “but having to make decisions about sending staff into potentially dangerous... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
in a race against time, working for the underground agency IA3. When a child-trafficking ring is exposed, the IA3 team enlists the CIA’s aid with local police services in a dangerous mission to unearth the ring-leaders. But the team’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
systemically dangerous part of the system, the commercial banks, and we exercised a much lighter touch elsewhere, leaving the rest of the financial system to innovate, be dynamic, and do everything that markets do so well.” This targeted... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The landowner's share of net oil production, taken in the form of crude oil rather than in cash. Slug Catcher: A metal vessel that separates liquids from natural gas. Snubber: The most dangerous job in the oil field. A worker who controls... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
most companies, the financial risk remained too high to justify the potential reward—a situation that too often led to dangerous vaccine shortages. It was at this moment that Moderna turned its attention to vaccines. The company had been... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
people who are going to take a sabbatical, especially if they're feeling burnt out, they're going to go from a really high level of intensity of your life and your job to something different than that. I think it's dangerous to go from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1984) and Dan Olmsted Skyhorse Publishing Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The authors believe autism is new,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
meeting—a GPP program that trains students to educate their peers about the dangers of abusing prescription drugs. (In 2014, the Georgia Meth Project broadened its focus to become the Georgia Prevention Project.) Some of the students wear... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
calamity, world war—that there was a collective, societal, postwar understanding that what we had done in the 1920s and 1930s was so dangerous and so harmful, we just needed to agree to live in the center of the political spectrum. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
partnerships to personal relationships. She documents how we often silence our differences, believing it is the best way to preserve relationships and get work done as expeditiously as possible, and yet, these very acts of silence build, creating a View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
been driven to explore faraway regions, although I walk with the help of crutches. My physical limitations never hindered me from visiting dangerous places and leading an adventurous life. The opposite is true: They helped me face... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
Street, raising the specter of a credit market collapse that would cripple the economy. “It is an anxious time. It is probably even a dangerous time. It is a historic time. And it is a time that we’re going to be teaching about in our... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
the old dangerous playground equipment, fell off the rusty slide, and kids actually had casts. [LAUGHTER] You used to sign them. Now, no one's got a cast. It's a problem. So under-programming means literally what it sounds like, the one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
has allowed the West’s growing prosperity, but this ideal is now being challenged by governmental bodies that were founded on this very principle. Wagnière examines the dangers that arise when governments push toward collectivism and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
experienced Soviet counterpart, Colonel Ivan Levchenko. The story plays out from the skies over Siberia to the gritty, dangerous streets of East Berlin. The radically different worldviews of Cattani and Levchenko punctuate the deep... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
objective was to provide an air-conditioned environment; offer support for customers who couldn’t read or write; and get them in and out of the store in 15 minutes with working service.” It sounds like a reasonable goal. But building the infrastructure necessary to... View Details
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
maneuvers. A collision that damaged the sensitive, lower portion of the submersible where the critical “drop weights” were located would certainly end the dive and possibly the expedition. After a few tense minutes, the Pressure Drop reported that the View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
Shackleton divided them into three categories: “Mad,” “Hopeless,” and “Possible.” He met face-to-face with those in the Possible category, searching for cheerfulness, a sense of humor, and other qualities he associated with optimism, a personal trait he deemed... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
help. Her website, whyareweallstuckinside.com, offers a free kit to support parents with fun and educational activities for kids ages 3-8. "This is a survival kit," says Paolera. "The danger is outside, but for those with little kids, the... View Details