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...opportunities for yourself. And, when you’re in charge, provide others with that chance.” The preparation for this kind of leadership is the centerpiece of the HBS education he said. “For decades, Cambridge has supplied Wall Street, Main Street and Silicon Valley, London, Hong Kong, and Mumbai with a steady stream of leaders,” he said. “They achieved greatness not because their Harvard degrees entitled them to it, but because of their creativity, their determination, and their strong sense of accountability.” He praised...
...everyone is confident that DHS will be so sensitive. At the eastern edge of the border, in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, where there has been a 30-year struggle to recover wildlife habitat from urbanization, ranching and agricultural clearing, over 95% of the native brush land has been erased. The area is home to a necklace of salvaged brush habitat known as the Lower Rio Grande Wildlife Refuge, 115 tracts along 70 miles of river front, purchased with $70 million in federal funds. "One of the ironies of this proposed fence is it flies in the face...
...major flyways converge in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, bringing over 500 species of birds and 300 species of butterflies to the region, where eco-tourism is now a $150 million annual business. Hunters - including Vice President Dick Cheney - spend millions hunting white wing doves, which flourish in the brushy habitat. "This is the most biologically diverse region in North America," said Nancy Brown, public outreach officer for the refuge. This rich biodiversity has helped revive little border towns like Roma, a former river steamboat port, whose picturesque 19th century dusty plaza now boasts the World Birding Center. Looking down...
Founder and president Jason Fried, 33, decided early on that he didn't need to be in the shiny valley of Silicon to make cool software. Half his team works out of a plain-vanilla Chicago office that 37signals shares with a design studio. The other four are scattered: Portland, Ore.; Chesapeake, Va.; Caldwell, Idaho; and New York City. This tiny crew, only three of whom graduated from college, has built software that many in the world of Web 2.0 consider the best for small-business collaboration. One of its development tools, Ruby on Rails, is the backbone for dozens...
...warned. He wasn't being messianic, as people used to say, just prescient. And today he's still the same serious guy he always was, but the context has changed around him. He used to spend his time in Washington, but now his tech work takes him to Silicon Valley, to the campuses of Apple and Google, where his kind of intellectual firepower is celebrated. At Apple, where Jobs invited him to join the board in 2003, Gore patiently nudged the CEO to adopt a new Greener Apple program that will eliminate toxic chemicals from the company's products...