The Danger of Being Alexander
Leaders may find it tempting to wage ambitious crusades for personal reward, but eventually their troops can turn on them. Collaboration, often missed, can be a viable and sustainable alternative.
Harvard Food+ Research Symposium: Walter Willett
Walter Willett, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health
The Harvard Research Symposium on the Nexus of Food, Agriculture, Environment, Health, and Society (Food+ Symposium) featured twenty-two Harvard faculty members from eight schools and a dozen departments giving seven minute "speed presentations" on their current Food+ research.
The goal of the Food+ Research Symposium was to provide attendees with a sense of the excitement and breadth of the Food+
Harvard Food+ Research Symposium: Joyce Chaplin
Joyce Chaplin, Professor of Early American History at the Department of History in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
The Harvard Research Symposium on the Nexus of Food, Agriculture, Environment, Health, and Society (Food+ Symposium) featured twenty-two Harvard faculty members from eight schools and a dozen departments giving seven minute "speed presentations" on their current Food+ research.
The goal of the Food+ Research Symposium was to provide attendees with a sense of the excitem
Keynote Address: Dr. Peter Slavin
Keynote Address: Dr. Peter Slavin, President of Massachusetts General Hospital
Steve Lohr, "Data-ism"
Steve Lohr, a technology reporter for the New York Times, chronicles the rise of Big Data, addressing cutting-edge business strategies and examining the dark side of a data-driven world.
Coal, iron ore, and oil were the key productive assets that fueled the Industrial Revolution. Today, Data is the vital raw material of the information economy. The explosive abundance of this digital asset, more than doubling every two years, is creating a new world of opportunity and challenge.
Data-ism is ab
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Lynda Gratton, Warren East, Andy Green, Jasmine Whitbread and Rakesh Bhasin discuss the five key factors that will influence the way we work - technology, demographics, social trends, carbon and globalisation
In her best-selling book, Dead Aid, economist Dambisa Moyo, argues that aid to Africa breeds corruption and dependence and should be replaced with more innovative ways of financing, including capital markets and microfinance. Her lecture, Innovating Away from Aid, was delivered at the University of Waterloo.
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Claire Pentecost, Professor and Chair, Department of Photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
For her upcoming lecture series contribution, Pentecost will be presenting formal responses to her research into soil, microbes and money, Pentecost will demonstrate the artistic position she calls “the public amateur.”
Claire Pentecost’s work engages collaboration, research, teaching, writing, lecturing, drawing, installation and photography in an ongoing interrogation of the ins
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