If the Innovation Lab succeeds, it could make building a globe-ready app require a lot fewer plane tickets.
Meanwhile, Assaiante was coaching the United States national team and crisscrossing the globe, building a network of international coaches and a Rolodex of international stars.
For example, the Ellen MacCarthur Foundation, set up by the eponymous sailor famous for being the fastest person to circumnavigate the globe, is building a collaborative environment where some of the world's largest companies, such as Apple, Ikea, Coca-Cola and H&M, address their concerns alongside geeks, innovators and other organisations.
Areva President Anne Lauvergeon has overseen a stunning acquisition record, building a $10 billion-plus per year, globe-straddling, fully integrated, mine-mouth to power plant nuclear enterprise.
The neighbors, one an ultra-endurance athlete who does charity work around the globe, another building a house to accommodate her brother, who uses a wheelchair, turn out to be not that much different from most suburbanites seeing their backyard go from their own to a quasi park full of teenagers from near and far.
Researchers generally like to exchange ideas and new evidence, building a culture of sharing spanning the globe.
Flying in this orbit, Aqua will take readings of every part of the globe every 16 days, building a comprehensive database that allows scientists to assess changes and drastically improving computer models for long-term forecasting.
As a businessman, the league's former commissioner was a visionary, building a booming operation that now reaches around the globe.
"We are building a better foundation for real-time content delivery across the globe".
During his talk to a massive SXSW crowd, Peretti explained how he's building BuzzFeed into a globe-spanning business with over 200 million unique monthy visitors and over 900 employees.
At best, as in "Home Sweet Home," in which all sorts of dwellings -- an igloo, a teepee, a wood-framed house, a high-rise apartment building -- encircle a globe, embroidery by Pamella Nesbit gives the otherwise vapid picture a satiny, jewel-like richness.
