Simon Johnson on 13 Bankers
13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown
MIT Sloan School of Management Professor Simon Johnson warns in a new book that a "new financial oligarchy" threatens not only the nation's economy, but its political core.
A Life in Public Service
A Life in Public Service
04/13/2007 2:30 PM 32"123Senator Edward M. KennedyDescription: Senator Ted Kennedy delivers a scathing denunciation of the Bush Administration's science and research agenda, accusing the government of "fighting a war on truth on many fronts." He lashes out at people in power "who believe that ...
Achieving US Energy Security Through Energy Diversity
Achieving US Energy Security Through Energy Diversity
10/28/2008 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumBob Malone, SF '89, Chairman & President, BP AmericaDescription: "We've been spoiled as a nation," says Bob Malone. For decades, energy was inexpensive and abundant, and most Americans took it for granted. Recently "we've seen the ...
America's Leadership in Clean Energy
America's Leadership in Clean Energy
10/23/2009 12:00 PM KresgePresident Barack Obama, 44th President of the USDescription: In welcoming President Obama, MIT President Susan Hockfield summarizes the vast array of energy innovation at MIT, including the MIT Energy Initiative and the student"led 1700 member Energy Club, and ...
Apollo: Reflections and Lessons
Apollo: Reflections and Lessons
06/11/2009 9:30 AM KresgeDr. Jeffrey A. Hoffman, former Space Shuttle astronaut, Professor of the Practice, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT ; Dr. Richard Battin, '45, PhD '51, Director of Apollo guidance, navigation and control system, Senior Lecturer, MIT ; Dr. Aaron Cohen, ...
biodiesel@MIT
biodiesel@MIT
How do you get a biodiesel processor in your community or on your campus?
Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons
02/22/2007 7:00 PM 6-120Joseph Cirincione, Senior Vice-President for National Security and International Policy, Center for American ProgressDescription: Joseph Cirincione delivers an energetic and at times impassioned primer on the standoff with Iran on its nuclear ...
Can Nuclear Energy and Non-Proliferation Co-Exist?
Can Nuclear Energy and Non-Proliferation Co-Exist?
03/15/2007 7:00 PM 32"141Owen Cote, PhD '96, Center for International Studies; Matthew Bunn, 85, SM '85, PhD '07, Senior Research Associate, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Geoff Forden, Science, Technology and Global Security ...
Cause for War? Assessing the Bush Administration's Case ...
Cause for War? Assessing the Bush Administration's Case Against Iraq " ...
09/26/2002 7:00 PM 34"101Kenneth Oye, Associate Professor of Political Science and Engineering Systems and Director of the MIT"CIS Program on Political Economy and Technology Policy; ; Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq ; ; Stephen Walt, Robert and ...
Challenges in Nation Building
Challenges in Nation Building
09/29/2009 2:30 PM 10"250President José Ramos"Horta, President, East Timor, 1996 Nobel Peace Prize LaureateDescription: At times humorous and defiant, JoséRamos"Horta describes nurturing the 21st century's first sovereign state through its formative years. The journey of East ...
Challenges to the Global Economy
Challenges to the Global Economy
02/11/2009 5:30 PM Wong AuditoriumMartin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University; Simon Johnson, PhD '89, Ronald A. Kurtz Professor of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan School of ManagementDescription: If economic analyses earned ratings like movies, this event would ...
China's Development and China"US Relations
China's Development and China"US Relations
02/10/2009 3:30 PM 10"250His Excellency Zhou Wenzhong, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of ChinaDescription: MIT President Susan Hockfield hails a new era of collaboration between the Institute and China, and Zhou Wenzhong, ...
Freshman Convocation 2012
Class of 2016 Freshman Convocation
President L. Rafael Reif and other MIT administrators, faculty and staff welcome the Class of 2016 at the annual Freshman Convocation.
Miller Lecture: Complex Sociotechnical Systems
Complex Sociotechnical Systems: The Case for a New Field of Study
The Annual Charles L. Miller Lecture (recorded on 4/25/12), with Interim ESD Director Joseph Sussman
Concentrate on Distracted Driving: A Challenge to MIT ...
Concentrate on Distracted Driving: A Challenge to MIT Students from US ...
05/03/2010 12:00 PM E14"674Ray LaHood, US Secretary of TransportationDescription: From the MIT News Office: Research has shown that talking on a phone while driving, even with a hands"free cellphone, causes as much of an impairment to driving ability as being drunk. ...
Counting the Dead in Iraq
Counting the Dead in Iraq
02/27/2007 4:30 PM E51-345Gilbert Burnham, Co-director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins UniversityDescription: It's no wonder there was an outcry when Gilbert Burnham's group released its report on mortality in ...
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9"11/Iraq
Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9"11/Iraq
04/07/2008 4:30 PM 32"123John Dower, Ford International Professor of HistoryDescription: The Bush administration began its "great misuse of history" shortly after 9/11, says John Dower, when it seized upon Japan's 1941 Pearl Harbor attack as a useful analogy, a way to ...
Darfur/Darfur: The Crisis
Darfur/Darfur: The Crisis
10/15/2009 7:00 PM 32"123Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Belfer Center, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government; Susannah Sirkin, Deputy Director, Physicians for Human Rights; Marcus Bleasdale, Author: One Hundred Years of DarknessDescription: ...
Deploying Our Gifts for the Betterment of Humankind: What ...
Deploying Our Gifts for the Betterment of Humankind: What Would Dr. King ...
02/04/2010 7:30 AM Walker Morss HallGerry Hudson, Executive Vice President of SEIU "Service Employees International Union; Dr. Susan Hockfield, President, MITDescription: Woven into the fabric of MIT life, says Susan Hockfield, is the "perpetual striving to be ever ...
Dr. King's Unfinished Agenda: A Call for Economic & Social ...
Dr. King's Unfinished Agenda: A Call for Economic & Social Justice in the ...
02/09/2006 7:30 AM Walker Morss HallDonna Brazile, Founder and Managing Director of Brazile and Associates, LLCDescription: Donna Brazile's informal but impassioned address illuminates her role not only as a mover and shaker in the halls of power but as a great ...