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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
want to see in your own rearview mirror at age 40, 50, and 60,” he adds. “Begin exploring ideas you have a passion for and might be able to build on when you make the break.” Holden began winding down his business in 1987, at the age of...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Brando,” says Bailey, “we will raise the bar to 100 percent renewable-energy autonomy, with SWAC, solar and wind power, and copra oil as a biofuel.” Other plans include capturing cooling and condensation from SWAC to grow crops such as...
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- 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill
beds in the West Wind dormitory, where Marietta broke ground on a $475,000 renovation project last fall, they’ll burn some calories learning traditional Appalachian folk dances from a teacher who attended day camp at Pine Mountain as a...
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- 29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
packaged food, thermal blankets, hygiene and medical products, and two trucks of animal feed were provided in Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, and Hatay. "Support poured in from all of FIBA's subsidiaries, including those in the wind power plant...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
magnate is as filled with plot twists as a good adventure novel. Engineer to Entrepreneur Rogers took a winding road to entrepreneurship. A self-described “geeky” kid, he graduated with an engineering degree from the University of...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future
shocks. He is currently conducting a study of wind power worldwide. “I’ve been involved in climate-change issues since the early 1980s,” Vietor says. “It’s very discouraging the United States has done so little as a nation despite decades...
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- 05 Mar 2020
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Green Light
Lo, is carbon neutral—vertical farms set up next to, say, a giant solar field or a wind farm. “We look at the industry, and it’s pretty clear you can’t put a sustainable label on yourself unless you solve the energy piece of it—and we...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
he thinks it’s his ticket out of small-town captivity. What he lacks in connections and Beltway polish, he makes up in smarts, and he soon finds a friend and mentor in fellow staffer Ariel Lancaster. That is, until she winds up dead. As...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good
the job done. And everybody who meets him winds up saying, ‘What a great guy he is!’ As I said, in my business, you need people like that.” Quietly, McArthur steered Harvard energy and resources into Boston, and into the School’s...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
factors like wind and water. “There are strategic and tactical elements to sailing,” says Dillon, a native of Ireland. “You need to decide where you want to go and what your competitors are doing. It’s kind of an interactive game that’s...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7
particularly apparent in the area of trading, where seconds count and system crashes are disastrous. "When Schwab goes down for four hours, it winds up on the front page of the Wall Street Journal," explains McFarlan, who recently...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
promise of better charging infrastructure, and evolving trends in foreign markets all indicate that EVs are approaching a global tipping point. But with political winds imperiling government incentives in the United States and China...
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- 09 Sep 2016
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MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
you've ever seen it-- it's a very visual sport. It combines sailing, and gymnastics, and parasailing, and gliding. And it's a sport that allows you to basically, harness the forces of nature-- wind and water-- and you can basically, load...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
As a result, SEEQC could take some of the uncertainty out of a sector whose core technology relies on the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Indeed, if Levy succeeds, the company might wind up supplying the technology that closes the door...
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- 03 Mar 2020
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Can This Man Change the American Diet?
Yeah, we do. It’s like a parsnip sandwich with a medlar jam. It’s really fun. Dan Morrell: Ayr Muir always had an interest in the environment. After HBS, he thought he’d find a job in wind power—until a friend gave him an alarming UN...
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Agriculture
- 01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work
the workplace. "Divorces, job changes, and the cold wind of personal mortality blowing on my neck have all fed into my interest in issues of personal meaning in relationship to work," Vaill notes. photo courtesy Peter Vaill
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond
decoration. Before the lively party began, one man offered a prayer of gratitude “for our deliverance from the high winds of the wintry mountains and from the cruel snows fallen upon us, and from the perils of the black night and dark...
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- 01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning
At the conclusion of the session, McCormick inquires, "So, how did this case method discussion feel to you?" "Frustrating," comes one response. "There are so many ideas and not enough opportunities to discuss or express them," says another. "There isn't one lesson or...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
(Routledge) This textbook examines the key energy sources—both fossil fuels and renewables, including oil, coal, solar, and wind power—and summarizes how the current economics of energy evolved. Later chapters explore issues concerning...
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