Composing a Career and Life
Composing a Career and Life
05/07/2009 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumLinda A. Mason, Chairman & Founder, Bright Horizons Family SolutionsDescription: Linda Mason was originally going to make a case study of Bright Horizons, her $1.3 billion, early childhood care business, but reconsidered in light of the current economic ...
Oladapo Tomori, Legatum Fellow
Oladapo Tomori, Legatum Fellow
Oladapo is a native citizen of Nigeria, where he studied medicine, but has also studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and the London School of Economics. He combines his interests in medicine and health into a goal to use mobile technologies to help with health-care in Nigeria.
John Peter Nshimyimana, Legatum Fellow
John Peter Nshimyimana, Legatum Fellow
John Peter Nshimyimana talks about the business he would like to start in his homeland. His idea is to provide clean water solutions to the rural villages in Rwanda.
Derek Brine, Legatum Fellow
Derek Brine, Legatum Fellow
Legatum Fellow, Derek Brine, plans to start a business in Kenya around an amazing useful tree that has health, economic and environmental benefits.
Craig Doescher, Legatum Fellow
Craig Doescher, Legatum Fellow
Craig Doescher, Legatum Fellow, is designing a business in South Africa, that will fill a need in the shanty towns and enable small boutiques to become more profitable by improving the means of food distribution.
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda - Compton Lecture
President Paul Kagame of Rwanda - Compton Lecture
On September 18, 2008, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda delivered a lectureentitled, "Imperative of Science and Technology in Accelerating African andRwandan Development." After the lecture, President Kagame took questions from the audience pertaining to this ...
Imperative of Science and Technology in Accelerating ...
Imperative of Science and Technology in Accelerating African and Rwandan ...
09/18/2008 3:30 PM KresgeH.E. Paul Kagame, President, Republic of RwandaDescription: The news these days from Africa isn't all bad. In fact, in some places, it's downright hopeful, as Rwandan President Paul Kagame attests. "Our continent is no longer all about ...
Global Health Equity
Global Health Equity
11/15/2007 4:00 PM Kirsch 32"123Paul Farmer, Founder, Partners in HealthDescription: Don't foolishly advise Paul Farmer that his bold projects can't succeed. For the past 20 years, Farmer's been toppling orthodoxies concerning the delivery of health care to people of developing nations, and ...
Human Rights and Politics in Israel"Palestine
Human Rights and Politics in Israel"Palestine
10/22/2007 6:30 PM 66"110Jeff Halper, Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions; Anat Biletzki, Professor of Philosophy, Tel Aviv UniversityDescription: Human rights are central to the fraught politics between Israelis and Palestinians, these two panelists argue. ...
HIV Lymphocyte Dynamics and Implications for Therapy
HIV Lymphocyte Dynamics and Implications for Therapy
03/23/2006 David Ho, Founding Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center; ; Irene Diamond Professor at The Rockefeller UniversityDescription: Few researchers become legends in their own time, but David Ho's relentless ...