"By experiencing Israel firsthand through engagement with the host companies, and by gaining an appreciation for the social and cultural fabric, students were able to identify the key ingredients in the country's success," said Cohen.
I saw this firsthand: Highly engaged employees included operational staff in their change initiatives three times more frequently than those from the low-engagement group.
As summer is lighter on program-specific curricular requirements, it presents a unique chance for cross-disciplinary collaboration, firsthand experience, and greater engagement with real situations.
"In years gone by, the basic premise of housing policy was, If you could work you could afford a place to live," said Nicolas P. Retsinas, director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, who recently viewed the situation here firsthand during a speaking engagement.
Each founder had his own take on how to make mobile phones more effective – Daiss having seen the app discovery and engagement challenges firsthand; Montoy-Wilson with insight into the Android ecosystem itself; and Choi coming at the problem from the search perspective – he wanted to rebuild mobile search from the ground up.
He has seen firsthand what happens without local engagement in forest management.
When independent filmmaker Carl Houston Mc Millan was growing up in the tiny southern African country of Lesotho, he saw firsthand the effects of China's surging engagement in Africa.
"We believe our hands-on approach to teaching these skills will ultimately foster active, reflective and compassionate engagement in students, who will learn firsthand the importance and effectiveness of collaboration," he said.
Such firsthand knowledge is important to shaping future U.S. engagement with the Government of Sudan and opposition groups and leaders regarding Darfur.
The purpose of opening these stores is to create deeper engagement with consumers and continue to learn firsthand about what they want and how they buy.
