Paths to Power Paths to Power: In our first segment, Harvard Business School Press executive editor Melinda Merino sits down with Anthony Mayo, director of the Harvard Business School Leadership Initiative, for a look at the changing face of leadership in the 21st century. Mayo draws on some of the core ideas in his new book, Paths to Power, which he co-authored with Nitin Nohria and Laura Singleton, to help us understand how the road to the top is being repaved for better access,
The New Rules of Power The New Rules of Power: Harvard Business Online's Steve Singer interviews Alan Murray, author of the recently published Revolt in the Boardroom: The New Rules of Power in Corporate America. According to Murray, previously all-powerful CEOs must now earn the support of their boards, unions, NGOs, and the public, at times campaigning like politicians just to keep their jobs. HBR in Brief: And, in our HBR in Brief segment, How Man
The Power of Unreasonable People Featured Guest: John Elkington, Founder and Chief Entrepreneur of SustainAbility and author of The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets that Change the World. Copyright 2008 Harvard Business School Publishing
Telling the Truth About Power
Featured Guest: Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford Business School professor and author of the HBR article "Power Play." Copyright 2010 Harvard Business School Publishing
Talk: Clergy scandal shows power of old and new media
Walter Robinson and Clay Shirky discuss how the case of the sex abuse scandal in the Catholic Church illustrates the changing powers of old and new media
The Growth of Solar Ventures - Larry Bawden (Jadoo Power)
Larry Bawden is a co-founder of Jadoo Power, an innovative supplier of fuel cells, and Q1 Nanosytems, a next-generation photo-voltaics provider. Bawden addresses the new landscape in technology and energy and notes the pivotal role of newer technologies in the global economy. He talks about the four fundamental planetary crises - Global Warming, Peak Oil, Population Peak and Resource Depletion that are driving changes in world. Bawden also acknowledges the rise of third generation technology and
Concentrated Power in a Global Economy - David Rothkopf (Author)
David Rothkopf, CEO of Garten Rothkopf and author of Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making, mulls over the research in his latest social macroeconomic tome. He iterates a wealth of trends and statistics on the ever-broadening gap between rich and poor, and how true global influence is the product of a shockingly small handful of global players.
Memory, Inequality and Power: Palestine and the Universality of Human Rights
Said, author of the groundbreaking work "Orientalism" and a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, was one of the most prominent literary and cultural critics in the United States. His writings about the Middle East and its relationship to the West have had a major influence ...
3. A Head in the Cloud: The Power of Infrastructure as a Service (April 23, 2008)
science, electrical, engineering, math, computer, technology, amazon, internet, infrastructure, interface, business, distributed system, scalability, reliability, performance, cost-effectiveness, consumer, retail, customer, seller, web developer, enterpri
9. Vehicle to Grid Power
Course - Group - 9. Vehicle to Grid Power - Stanford > Energy Seminar (Spring 2007) > 9. Vehicle to Grid Power
4A. The Future of Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power in the US Marketplace Slides
Course - Group - 4A. The Future of Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power in the US Marketplace Slides - Stanford > Energy Seminar (Fall 2007) > 4A. The Future of Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power in the US Marketplace Slides
4. The Future of Concentrating Solar-Thermal Power in the US Marketplace
Science, technology, economics, engineering, solar energy, renewable resource, electricity demand, natural gas, transmission, utility, coal, carbon, nuclear, fuel price, power plant, monetized carbon emission, cost, generators, ancillary services, wind fa
5. Scaling Solar Power (April 30, 2008)
Science, environment, electricity, technology, utility, energy production, solar utility power, peak power, wholesale production, kilowatt hour, peak power, peak times, off-peak times, electric infrastructure, municipal level, distribution grid, transform
3. The Importance of Wind Power in a Clean and Renewable Future (April 16, 2008)
Science, environment, biology, energy, electricity, intermittency, storage, power, economics, natural gas, renewable resource, hydropower, hydroelectricity, efficiency, compressed air, high-altitude wind power, global warming, technology, turbine, generat
8. Solar Thermal Power (November 12, 2008)
solar power, alternative energy, climate change, global warming, science, technology, photovoltaic, renewable energy, Department of Energy (DOE), turbines, power plants, radiation, thermodynamics, energy consulting, natural resources, high voltage technol
5. Smart Grids and De-Carbonising the Power Sector (February 5, 2009)
science, technology, engineering, power, networks, electronics, smart grids, transmission, climate change, innovation, sustainability, renewable energy, plants, load, electrical engineering, decarbonization, distributed generation, digital signal processi
27. The International System in 2008 (March 11, 2008)
world politics, international relations, empire, nation states, communism, fascism, anti-imperialism, society, sovereignty, new world order
9th Annual International Health Conference: War, Poverty and Population
The Relationship between Population Growth and Poverty
Robert Engelman, Vice President for Programs, Worldwatch Institute, Washington DC.
Numbers: Mind the Gap
Theogene Rudasingwa,, Former Rwandan Ambassador to the United States.
The Return of the Population Factor
Martha Campbell,, Co-founder of the Center for Entrepreneurship in International Health and Development (CEIHD), UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
Why Does Peace Break Out?
Malcolm Potts, Bixby Professor of Population and Family
The International System in the Twentieth Century (HIST 102)
Course - Group - The International System in the Twentieth Century (HIST 102) - Stanford > History of the International System > The International System in the Twentieth Century (HIST 102)
13. Stokely Carmichael Defines Black Power (November 8, 2007)
African-American history, black history, modern history, Modern Freedom Struggle, Clay Carson, black culture, civil rights movement, civil rights, black power
