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...part of their effort to spur conservation, the Harvard Green Campus Initiative (HGCI) and the College’s Resource Efficiency Program (REP) have added a new innovation component to their 15th annual Green Cup competition, calling on students to create teams to come up with new ways to save energy...
...bombings did not change the opinion of the Spanish voters as much as spur them to the voting booths to express their views. The ruling party lost only 900,000 of the vote tally it had received in the last election, but the Socialists expanded their own haul by almost 3 million. That's because voter turnout was about 10 percent higher than last time, and a convincing majority of the estimated 2 million first-time voters appear to have preferred the antiwar party...
...other 29 teams in Major League Baseball are around just to spur New York to further greatness, but when the Diamondbacks, Angels and Marlins do accidentally win, it's all the more exciting for them because they felled the rich, advantaged Yankees. I know it seems unfair that New York's vast television revenue gives the Yankees a permanent advantage. If all the cities had the same amount of money, every year might be as exciting in a roll-of-the-dice way, but there would be no truth in it. America is a nation of vast economic, educational...
These field-based studies form the core of HBS’s case method system, which uses real-life examples to spur classroom discussion on management issues...
...asked a sampling of creative minds at Harvard about their sources of inspiration and creativity. As might be expected, their responses were as varied as their media. But they all cited one another— students and faculty with ideas and sparks of their own—as a spur to their own inspiration. With such a network of inspiration, there must be lightbulbs flicking on at all hours...