On Our Radar highlights issues of interest to the MPI Team, our clients and friends. We tend to pick topics of particular relevance to Vermont, whether or not they have emerged in national awareness yet.
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Pat Heffernan: Jul 21, 2025 4:10:30 PM
At MPI, we love tracking emerging ideas that might positively shape how changemakers work and live. A recent Inc. article caught our attention for...
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Pat Heffernan: Apr 30, 2025 7:45:00 PM
I was thrilled to watch the Global Flourishing Study (GFS) announcement video earlier today, April 30, 2025. This collaborative, multi-year effort...
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Pat Heffernan: Mar 7, 2025 11:15:00 AM
I am comfortable stating that we all know someone who is either a caregiver or who needs regular care — and I don't like to use the word "all"...
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Pat Heffernan: Nov 5, 2021 6:32:28 PM
If you find yourself skimming the morning news and skipping the evening news, you're not alone. Columbia Journalism Review reports that there is a...
Pat Heffernan: Jun 4, 2021 5:31:19 PM
Over the past 20 years, the number of female CEOs at Fortune 500 companies has increased by nearly 14-fold. Sounds good until you realize in 2021...
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Pat Heffernan: Mar 31, 2021 11:15:00 AM
The Most Successful Entrepreneurs Are... Does age predict entrepreneurial success? Yes, say many Americans, and they would be right. But they would...
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Pat Heffernan: Sep 13, 2020 8:42:54 PM
Despite missteps amid a charged political season, I believe the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) remains a public health institution...
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Pat Heffernan: Apr 7, 2019 1:32:24 PM
The most compelling and convincing of the many pieces I've seen during National Public Health Week 2019 are an article and a video in The New York...
Pat Heffernan: Jun 28, 2018 9:43:44 AM
Image Credit Patrick Kyle Since residents of Bennington, Vermont found PFOA in their tap water last year, it seemed a given to many of us that a...
Pat Heffernan: Feb 12, 2018 4:50:00 PM
NPR shared an excellent piece today on the impact of technologies on our brains. This is the subject of near-daily discussion in our offices because...
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Pat Heffernan: Jun 6, 2017 11:12:00 AM
The need is well documented. The Kauffman Foundation and others have detailed the female-male gap in business startup rates, gross revenues and...
Pat Heffernan: May 29, 2017 7:01:00 AM
"If I were to tell you that marketers were using astrological signs as a way to understand/target specific groups of people, you’d tell me that’s a...
Pat Heffernan: Mar 27, 2017 10:03:00 PM
Amidst all the talk about the declining population of younger working-age people in Vermont and much of the Northeast, this research finding from the...
Pat Heffernan: Dec 4, 2016 10:05:00 AM
Say it isn't so. We often work with public sector government agencies, so we are acutely aware of the financial and political pressures they...
Pat Heffernan: Nov 29, 2016 10:03:00 AM
I've watched with excitement the trend to make it easier for ordinary investors to identify sustainable, carbon-free, ethical or socially responsible...
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Pat Heffernan: Jun 15, 2016 10:05:00 AM
The White House hosted the United State of Women Summit on June 14, inspiring those participating both in real life and virtually. #StateOfWomen is a...
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Pat Heffernan: Mar 25, 2016 12:53:00 PM
March marks Women’s History Month again, but I am not celebrating. Stories and images of courageous women of the past are everywhere. These women...
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Pat Heffernan: Sep 28, 2015 11:25:00 PM
Ready to go... Ten policy solutions to close the funding and opportunities gaps for women and minority-owned businesses are being presented at the...
Pat Heffernan: Aug 22, 2015 12:31:00 PM
It's likely that your eyes glaze over as quickly as mine do when you hear lofty sustainable local food system goals and "walking the talk" rhetoric...
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Pat Heffernan: Aug 2, 2015 1:08:00 AM
From The White House: Action on climate change? In what some may consider a long overdue move, the White House announced at midnight the final...
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