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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
Century.” Okay, that might be a bit of local television hyperbole, but it was amazing to see the grainy video, spartan sets, rudimentary weather graphics, weathermen with long hair and sideburns (I am sure we did not look that dorky at...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
'75) ((Amazon Digital Services)) Frank Batten: The Untold Story of the Founder of the Weather Channel by Connie M. Sage ((University of Virginia Press)) Smarter Branding without Breaking the Bank: Five Proven Marketing Strategies You Can...
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- 01 Sep 2003
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Andrea Silbert
noting that word of mouth is the organization’s best marketing tool. While the ups and downs of the economy pose a challenge, Silbert says that with careful planning, CWE has weathered the recent economic downturn well. The mother of two...
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- 13 Feb 2015
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Lessons in Perseverance
By 1998, Pilar Deza (OPM 30, 2001) had weathered several storms on her way to becoming a leading education entrepreneur in Peru. Deza had gone from founding a nursery school in her garage with four neighborhood children to operating two...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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The Spangler Effect
to put the study rooms in the library instead of Spangler, and how many seats to put in the auditorium.” Ultimately, Spangler got 29 study rooms and a 350-seat auditorium. Essential Spangler: Warm weather always draws a crowd to the...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
direct them to specific orbital locations where, as a group, they will provide total global coverage 24/7, rather than viewing some of Earth some of the time. Spire wants to put up 100 of them to provide worldwide weather and shipping...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 13 Mar 2018
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Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
right now. And the weather and the terrain are an increasingly dangerous factor. And so I had to make the very heart-wrenching decision to delay for 24 hours and let the sun rise again and set again before we attempted to rescue people...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
a few big hospitals or financial services firms. Think of it as a private LinkedIn group or a Google circle. “Another analogue is a weather map,” says Bonaparte. “We’re allowing you to get ahead of the pattern.” Sharing is also common...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
above sea level, the men faced a tough decision: How long could they safely wait for the weather to clear to continue to the summit, 15,325 feet above sea level? Only a few days of food and, more vitally, heating fuel remained. To give...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Mustapha would be lucky to harvest 1.4 metric tons of maize—one-fifth the yield farmers in Brazil and China can expect. To match their production, he'd need to invest about $500 per hectare. But Mustapha earned only around $600 a year—and that was if the View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
“Any donation can help buy a meal or water, let alone get people out of the rubble.” FEBRUARY 10 Board director, investor, and author Ebru Dorman (MBA 1999) wrote a post on LinkedIn that covered the situation on the ground in Turkey. "Extreme View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
never seen before.” Each dive begins the same way. The Pressure Drop first spends several days mapping the area to find the deepest point. Then, the crew waits on Mother Nature—ideally, the weather must be clear and relatively calm. As...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons
politics to social movements to the world’s weather patterns, we are living in the midst of great volatility. How do we see clearly, not only here and now, but also into an uncertain future? In this context, the past—carefully...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Unsurprisingly, then, Jakarta underwhelms in comparison to other world centers. Last year, in its annual liveability index, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked Jakarta 116—below Almaty, Kazakhstan, and New Delhi—out of 140 cities. Residents call Jakarta, with its...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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The Prophet of Start-Ups
the Office of the Quartermaster General, Doriot led a revolution in the military by applying science to the art of war. Under his command, the U.S. Army found substitutes for critical raw materials, and developed dozens of innovative items such as water-repellent...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
weatherizing an existing building’s exterior “skin” and upgrading its lighting and heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning, or HVAC, systems) can only go so far. Updating infrastructure and retrofitting in older cities especially can...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting
in the early adopter phase,” says Linear’s Herp. “There’s still some time and development that needs to take place before we cross the chasm. The point we are at right now involves the strong stomach aspect of being an entrepreneur.” With that said, Herp, Leiman, and...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
by Garry Emmons It's December, and outside the weather is frightful in many of America's 32 National Football League cities as teams gear up for the playoff season. But no matter how adverse conditions may get both on and off the field,...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
The authors propose a practical and sustainable approach to one of the greatest challenges facing leaders today: transforming a business in the face of imminent disruption. They build upon the lessons of Xerox, Apple, and Barnes & Noble to describe the process of...
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