2013 Africa Investment Forum - 2nd Keynote Address
2013 Africa Investment Forum - 2nd Keynote Address
Mouhamadou Niang
2013 Africa Investment Forum - Introduction and Keynote ...
2013 Africa Investment Forum - Introduction and Keynote Address
Birama B. Sidibe
2013 Africa Investment Forum - Session 1: Infrastructure ...
2013 Africa Investment Forum - Session 1: Infrastructure Investments and ...
Speakers: Henry Lee (Moderator), Orli Arav, Lucy Cutting, Hidenori Miyoshi, Daniel Settel, Cheick-Oumar Sylla
2013 Africa Investment Forum - Session 2: Innovation and ...
2013 Africa Investment Forum - Session 2: Innovation and Entrepreneurship ...
Speakers: Jane Lim (Moderator), Amon Anderson, Valerie D'Costa, Will Guyster, Mandla Sibanda
3 minute interviews: 2010 MIT Sloan students on their ...
3 minute interviews: 2010 MIT Sloan students on their experience in Africa
This video was filmed by students in May and June 2010, after the second set of global health delivery lab student teams returned to campus from various project locations in sub-Saharan Africa. It presents the personal experience of a sample of students and is one of ...
A Conversation with Admiral William Fallon
A Conversation with Admiral William Fallon
ADMIRAL FALLON led U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) from March 2007 to March 2008. During that time, he was responsible for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and directed all U.S. military activities in the Middle East, Central Asia, and the Horn of Africa. ...
About the MISTI Program
About the MISTI Program
The MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives--better known as MISTI--connects MIT students and faculty with research and innovation around the world. MIT's primary international program, MISTI is a pioneer in applied international studies--a distinctively MIT concept. Working ...
Aminata Kane MBA '13
Aminata Kane MBA '13
Aminata Kane, co-president of the Africa Business Club, talks about the positive environment of entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan.
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 ...
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.
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: ...
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.
Dr. Ashok Gadgil - 2012 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for ...
Dr. Ashok Gadgil - 2012 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation ...
Video profile of Dr. Ashok Gadgil, winner of the 2012 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation for scientific solutions to the global water crisis, and energy and fuel efficiency.
Entrepreneurship, Government, and Development in Africa
Entrepreneurship, Government, and Development in Africa
09/21/2009 4:00 PM 34"101President John Kufuor, President of Ghana 2001"2009Description: After centuries of insufferable oppression by colonial powers, bloody independence struggles, and corrupt home"grown regimes, "Africa today is quickly awakening, and determined to ...
ghdLAB: in the world, for the world
ghdLAB: in the world, for the world
FALL 2011 OVERVIEW: OUR VISION OF THE VALUE OF ghdLAB Learn about why ghdLAB blends classroom learning and action-based field projects. MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer Anjali Sastry, students, and field partners explain what they've gained from taking on practical health care management and ...
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 ...
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 ...
How Can Engineers Contribute to the Fight Against Malaria?
How Can Engineers Contribute to the Fight Against Malaria?
05/11/2010 6:00 PM MuseumSubra Suresh, ScD '81, Dean, MIT School of Engineering; ; Monica Diez"Silva, Post"doctoral fellow, DMSE; David Quinn, Graduate student, Mechanical EngineeringDescription: Malaria has afflicted mankind from time immemorial, confounding many ...