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including spending on consultants and other items they deemed nonessential; such funds were then diverted to salaries for teachers and public safety workers and to investments in health care. They also... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Jun 2023
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Curb Appeal

supervisors and chatted with workers in green jumpsuits. She then sped over to DSNY headquarters, just a few blocks north of City Hall, to discuss the details of the agency’s emergency snow response with her executive team. “Don’t screw... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities

04 Jan 2016
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Taking Time Out for a Challenge

systems,” she recalls. “I suspected the outbreak would outpace the region’s ability to contain it, and I worried especially about the nurses, doctors, and other health care workers who were most directly at risk.” A New Hampshire native... View Details

Keywords: ebola; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2020
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Steady as She Goes

120,000 employees came to work concerned that best-available safety protocols would not be enough to protect them from a little-understood novel coronavirus. “But now it has evolved into a real moment of pride for us,” Weckert reflects.... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; change management; leadership; women; grocery stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

02 Sep 2018
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Havana Rising

arrive at the hotel’s Habana Vieja (“Old Havana”) location to ensure that guests of the high-end hotel can enjoy the luxury of a morning shower. The Kempinski, says Benedetti, is not connected to the city’s water system—unable to rely on either its View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North

21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

gentrification and daily quality of life,” says John Peters (MBA 1986), who worked on two separate projects for the Mayor’s Office for Civic Innovation (MOCI): the Strategy Project, focused on clarifying the MOCI’s vision and mission; and the View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2002
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bankruptcy laws) to creditors, and by spreading risk throughout the population (via deposit insurance and even the use of government-issued money). He discusses how the rise of big business provoked reforms that, by the early 20th century, transferred the risks of... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Apr 2002
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Back in Business

revenue.) The exchange and nearby buildings were checked for safety and cleaned up, power was reestablished, and computer systems tested and retested over the weekend. On Monday, September 17, Lhota stood by as the bell rang to open the... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

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Using Design Thinking to Improve Worker Safety in Manufacturing

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