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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
that in areas of the northeast where there is legacy infrastructure that is greatly in need of repair that we cannot turn a blind eye to those state and local repair needs as well. In the 1970s, Transportation Secretary Coleman's plan set a framework when people...
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- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
existence of rural areas not supplied by grid electricity was an important motivation for early movers in both the U.S. and Denmark. Public policy was the problem rather than the opportunity for wind entrepreneurs before 1980, but...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
the people, their personalities, contributions, and the influences that set this community apart from city living or other rural areas. The community survived and depended on each individual. People were courteous, supportive, and...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
HBS inspired to make energy development the focus of his career, not as an engineer but as an investment banker. Upon graduation, he will join Credit Suisse in London. — RT Sarah Sommer All-American, passionate catalyst, avid listener Sommer When she was two, growing...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
the 1950s in then rural Holladay, Utah. With a brother six years older and a sister six years his junior, young Howard often had to amuse himself. Holladay was a great place for a boy to go hunting jackrabbits and ramble through the...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
this story, in part, through the lives of some of the children Kristof grew up with in rural Yamhill, Oregon—an area that prospered for much of the twentieth century but has been devastated in the last few decades as blue-collar jobs...
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- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/491083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-152 CunCunLe: Empowering China's Rural Villages No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316152-PDF-ENG...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
his Time]. Finding longitude at sea was one of the toughest economic, scientific, and technological problems up until the eighteenth century. Isaac Newton said the only way to solve the problem was through astronomical methods, but he was proven wrong because someone...
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
and go to places like Detroit and New Orleans and rural Montana and see what was happening and see if we could use our education not just to make a buck but to make a difference. Everybody thought we were insane, actually. I mean, here...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
paths to pedal. In 1893, the roads became a cause of concern for the federal government as the U.S. Post Office Department instituted a system of rural free delivery (RFD). Members of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry — an...
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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
support for Trump, the candidate who scores lower on competence in our survey. But two groups respond to the treatment with a large (between 5 and 7 percentage points) increase in their support for Donald Trump: those living in rural...
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Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
to develop agricultural diagnostics for rural farmers in sub-Saharan Africa to detect milk spoilage, corn mold, and a cow's breeding status. "The entrepreneurial bug has definitely bitten me," says Puz. "Taking an idea and turning it into...
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- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
run gas and water distribution systems in diverse urban and rural locations throughout mainland China—often in the face of entrenched local interests who could have blocking power. Discussions with HKGC's negotiation teams revealed an...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
side effects of the powerful drugs used to treat HIV/AIDS and TB. In February, DFA’s reach broadened when the Gates Foundation continued its support by awarding the group a $2.99 million grant to develop agricultural diagnostics for rural...
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- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
Americans in her apartment building and moved to Boston, where she became a dance instructor at Tufts University. Thinking she might want to lead an arts organization, Barron applied to HBS. After cutting her teeth with McKinsey on a View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
had undertaken to impact three of the world's most urgent challenges-nutrition, water, and rural development-and Jöhr's team was fundamental to each of these pillars. Yet the forces changing the global food system were formidable:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Scudder and his daughter Roseanne to struggle for the dignity of all people. Doggett Determination: Believing in Yourself to Create Success in Life and Business by Ron E. Doggett (AMP 81, 1979) and Karen Zelden (Zelden Writing Solutions LLC) From Doggett’s modest...
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- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
different regions and urban and rural areas. The case lets students explore how these trends might impact JWT's advertising and marketing strategies in the future and how to evaluate JWT's business expansion in China dealing with local...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
signaling, but for actual policy formulation and execution. And you want as many people included in the economy as possible. And I know this as a person who is from a rural area, from Milledgeville, Georgia. And I see a lot of policy...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
in the rural areas of Georgia hit hardest by the epidemic. Fresh from a meeting with Georgia’s attorney general, business leaders, and law enforcement officials, Shaw told Langford about a presentation made by tech billionaire and...
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