Is there a Crisis in World Journalism? Professor Adrian Monck
Professor Adrian Monck is Managing Director and Head of Communications and Media at the World Economic Forum. The Forum is an independent, international organisation incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in Geneva, Switzerland. He was educated at Oxford University and London Business School and went on to be an award-winning broadcast journalist with CBS News, ITN and Sky News. His work at Dunblane and in Bosnia received awards from the Royal Television Society, and on Rwanda won the speci
Car Photography - Mike Valente
Mike Valente is one of the UK’s leading car photographers. He has worked on many UK and leading international publications – both magazines and newspapers – in addition to a whole host of car manufacturers and ad agencies.
Mike now also produces and edits video and stills for many online channels and magazines.
The Car is Still the Star - Gavin Green
Gavin is one of Britain’s best-known motoring writers. He was editor of Car magazine when it was the best selling motoring magazine in Britain, and is a former motoring editor of The Independent and the International Herald Tribune.
Give Peace Journalism a Chance - Professor Richard Keeble
Richard Keeble is a director of the Institute of Communication Ethics and co-edits their quarterly journal, Ethical Space. He is on the editorial board for a number of international journals.
Here he discusses the role of peace journalism in challenging key issues around war and contemporary culture.
Network-Driven Transportation
Today, cell phones are a menace to safe driving, as they distract operators who should otherwise focus on the road. Tomorrow, cell phones could actually improve our driving, and help drivers avoid traffic congestion, use the road system more effectively, and manage the parking supply. Li-Shiuan Peh says that the key to these serv
Energy resources: Tidal energy
The rise and fall of ocean tides result from the combined gravitational pull on water by the Moon and, to a lesser extent, bu the Sun, which exerts a force on water directed towards the two astronomical bodies. These gravitational effects combine with centrifugal forces that result from the Earth and the Moon orbiting each other to make the details of tidal changes complex.
This unit considers the power of the ocean tides as a potential source of useable energy and whether or not they can ever m
Why do We Need Differential Pricing?/Industry Perspective
The very first tablet or drop of a new medicine comes at a dear price-- $800 million – according to recent studies of R&D in pharmaceutical industries. But manufacturing subsequent pills costs literally pennies. What’s a fair way to price life-improving, or life-saving medicine? The two speakers in this part of the fo
What would happen to barley production in Finland if the global temperature increases above 4 degree
Third presentation of session 2 (Agriculture, Food and Water Security) of the 4degrees International Climate Conference
15.615 Law for the Entrepreneur and Manager (MIT)
This course provides a basic understanding of legal issues that corporations face during their existence. The course starts by providing the basic building blocks of business law. We then follow a firm through its life cycle from its "breakaway" from an established firm through it going public. The materials covered during 15.647 (the first half of the semester) emphasize the organization and financing of the company. In the second half of the course we examine a broad array of law-sen
15.974 Leadership Lab (MIT)
This five-day interactive and experiential workshop focuses on how leaders lead innovations that both promote social responsibility and produce business success. The workshop is organized around three main parts: observation, sense-making, and creating. During the observation phase, students spend a full day inside the Boston office of the design company IDEO and visit some of the most interesting proven innovators in corporate social responsibility such as Ben & Jerry’s, KLD, MBDC, Pl
15.012 Applied Macro- and International Economics (MIT)
This course will focus on the environment of firms with particular emphasis on economic variables such as GNP, inflation, interest rates, exchange rates and international trade. The course is divided into five parts: The first presents the basic tools of macroeconomic management by focusing on historical episodes, particularly in the United States. The second looks at national economic strategies for development. The third section concentrates on the recent financial and currency crises in emerg
15.665B Power and Negotiation (MIT)
This course is designed to provide you with a competitive advantage in negotiation. You will learn and practice the technical skills and analytic frameworks that are necessary to negotiate successfully with peers from other top business schools, and you will learn methods for developing the powerful social capital you will need to rise in the executive ranks of any organization.
In this course, you will learn to successfully face the challenge of negotiating materially rewarding deals while also
15.812 Marketing Management (MIT)
This course is an introduction to marketing: the study or practice of providing goods or services that satisfy human desires. To illustrate and discuss marketing concepts, we will read articles from scientific journals, chapters from marketing textbooks, newspaper clippings, and selections from popular literature. We will also use case studies to illustrate marketing principles and to apply marketing concepts to the real world. These case studies will involve a wide variety of products, includin
Office Hours with Anirudh Krishna on Why People Become Poor
Anirudh Krishna is an associate professor of public policy and political science and associate dean for international academic programs at Duke University's Sanford School. He discussed causes of poverty in an "Office Hours" webcast interview October 1, 2010. Learn more at http://sanford.duke.edu.
6.252J Nonlinear Programming (MIT)
6.252J is a course in the department's "Communication, Control, and Signal Processing" concentration. This course provides a unified analytical and computational approach to nonlinear optimization problems. The topics covered in this course include: unconstrained optimization methods, constrained optimization methods, convex analysis, Lagrangian relaxation, nondifferentiable optimization, and applications in integer programming. There is also a comprehensive treatment of optimality conditions, L
21H.504 East Asia in the World (MIT)
This subject examines the interactions of East Asia with the rest of the world and the relationships of each of the East Asian countries with each other, from ca. 1500 to 2000 A.D. Primary focus on China and Japan, with some reference to Korea, Vietnam, and Central Asia. Asks how international diplomatic, commercial, military, religious, and cultural relationships joined with internal processes to direct the development of East Asian societies. Subject addresses perceptions and misperceptions am
Conceptual Foundations of International Politics - Columbia University
Under the guidance of Professor Lisa Anderson, Conceptual Foundations of International Politics is a graduate course at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs which examines many of the central concepts, theories, and analytical tools used in contemporary social science to understand and explain international affairs.
Furious Faces on the Streets: Public Protests in history
"Power concedes nothing without a demand," avowed Frederick Douglass in 1857, "It never did and it never will." As an escaped slave who had gone on to become a leading figure in America's growing abolitionist movement, Douglas was no stranger to making... (Running Time 85:32)
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