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Rent The Runway co-founders Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss make as many mistakes as possible as quickly as possible--and then analyze them to figure out how they can improve over time.
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Known for her blunt leadership style, Bartz also makes a deep impression online, according to digital footprint tracker PeekYou. Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has huge digital feet
Read More »The Patience Method: Sitting Longer at the Gate Could Cut Airplane CO2 Emissions
We may not yet be able to power large airplanes sustainably with biofuels, but there are still ways that the airline industry can easily cut down on its fuel use and CO2 emissions. One ultra-simple solution: Keep planes at the gate longer with their engines turned off instead of having them idle on the runway. The idea comes courtesy of Hamsa Balakrishnan , an MIT professor specializing in airspace efficiency, in a paper published in the MIT Technical Report ( PDF )
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