Harvard Business alum pioneers 3D-printed cars

Harvard Business alum pioneers 3D-printed cars

Within the next couple of years, you likely will be able to buy a highway-ready 3D-printed car from one of the most innovative automobile startups in the world. Local Motors is currently working on the LM3D, and it could fundamentally change the way we think of car manufacturing.

It all began with Jay Rogers, who isn't your typical entrepreneur. He started with a major in engineering at Princeton, intending to build cars, but later switched to international affairs and foreign policy. After spending time at a medical device company in China and an investment firm in Dallas, Rogers decided to go to business school.

Mother Teresa: A hero for our time
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Mother Teresa: A hero for our time

Ray Flynn

I wish everybody could be at the Vatican on Sept. 4 for the remarkable occasion of Mother Teresa's Sainthood. There they would meet some of the most caring people from across the world. I am fortunate to have met many of them.

I first talked to Mother Teresa herself at Harvard University's graduation before I became Boston's mayor. Later, I helped her build housing for poor mothers and their infant babies in Boston and around the U.S. I was blessed to have met her several times in Rome, in soup kitchens and clinics in Africa, and India when I was Ambassador to the Holy See.

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