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The pen is mightier than the sword & this bookcase is mightier than a bullet
Tom Ankenbauer (MBA '22) co-launched a company called ProtectED, which sells bullet-resistant bookcases for classrooms and office spaces.
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Water-saving technology developed at MIT could clear the air around nuclear plants
Maher Damak and Karim Khalil … won the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition in 2018 for their basic concept.
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Rust? Trains? Why clean energy is turning to exotic ideas to fix its storage problem
"We're all trying to think about a system where there is no natural gas … In that world, batteries are going to become important, or necessary.”
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To keep the top talent, professional firms must retire the 9-to-5
"Although hours are easy to measure, they are a poor proxy for productivity in a knowledge-based organization."
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HubSpot cofounder to step down as CEO after accident
Brian Halligan (SF '05) has recovered from a snowmobile accident but said on Wednesday he has decided not to return to the company as CEO.
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The Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements Will Hamper Access to Credit: A Further Modification Is in Order
GCFP Executive Director Edward Golding recently wrote with colleagues from the Urban Institute (Laurie Goodman, Jung Hyun Choi, and John Walsh) about how government policy may unnecessarily hinder...
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The best startup ideas have multiple paths to success
"...the signature of a good idea is that the entrepreneur will be able to identify multiple potential ways to make it work."
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The mounting pressure for social media reform, MIT professor Sinan Aral and Attorney General Maura Healey discuss why change is needed
"...when you [turn off or] change the algorithm...people go back to their desire for diversity and for reaching across the aisle."
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Why even the most elite investors do dumb things when investing
“...even when we look at a sample of extremely talented, highly incentivized expert investors, they are still people."
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Work from home troubles many companies. Here's how to show the boss that you're on the job from anywhere
"In a knowledge-based economy, the hours worked are an input, not an output ... the boss should be mainly interested in results – the outputs."