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Boston Capital

Power play

By Steven Syre
Globe Columnist / May 26, 2009

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No one will ever accuse Greg Yurek of short-term thinking. Yurek, a former professor who left MIT in 1987 to help start American Superconductor Corp. , ended up running the company and taking it public four years later. The business proposition: develop materials that could conduct vastly more electricity than comparably sized copper or aluminum wire into a commercially viable ... (Full article: 733 words)

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