Rural Life in the Himalayas - Excerpts from a trip through ...
Rural Life in the Himalayas - Excerpts from a trip through Ladakh, India ...
Video taken during a summer 2008 trip by Catlin Powers and Scot Frank to Ladakh, India and Yunnan, China. Detailed within are some aspects of rural life, the terain, modes of transportation, people, and culture. This trip was related to field research into suitable ...
Ryan Blanchette, LGO '98, tells China LGO students and ...
Ryan Blanchette, LGO '98, tells China LGO students and alumni about the ...
The China Leaders for Global Operations (CLGO) program began in 2007 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. It is a dual-degree MBA and SM in Engineering program affiliated with the MIT LGO program. The first gathering of CLGO alumni, along with current students, faculty ...
Scientific, Health and Political Implications of an Avian ...
Scientific, Health and Political Implications of an Avian Flu Pandemic
Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations; Mark Lipsitch Description: Let's hope that policymakers heed the perspectives offered by these two panelists. But even the swiftest and wisest measures may not be enough to head off an avian ...
Student Stories: Jenny Kwan, MBA '09
Student Stories: Jenny Kwan, MBA '09
Jenny Kwan spent her "down" time in January going from the E&I Trek in California to an independent research project in China that explored clean energy entrepreneurship. She'll be back in China in March as part of the inaugural ChinaLab and hopes to end up there for good upon graduation. For ...
The Automotive Sector: Future Challenges and Opportunities ...
The Automotive Sector: Future Challenges and Opportunities Future ...
06/05/2004 9:00 AM KresgeDaniel Roos, '61, SM '63, PhD '66, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems ; John Heywood, SM '62, PhD '65, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical EngineeringDescription: We pay a stiff price for our car addiction. ...
The Clean Energy Revolution
The Clean Energy Revolution
05/03/2010 4:30 PM Copley Place MarriottBrian Dumaine, Sr., Editor at Large, Fortune Magazine; Nancy Floyd, Founder & Managing Director Nth Power; Scott Stern, Visiting Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Kevin Surace, CEO, Serious MaterialsDescription: Beyond guts, a great business ...
The Emergence of China in the Global Economy
The Emergence of China in the Global Economy
06/05/2004 2:00 PM WongLester Thurow, HM, Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Economics and ManagementDescription: Napoleon admonished the world to beware an awakened China. 200 years later, Lester Thurow traces the astonishing rise of this economic giant. In ...
The Energy/Climate-Change Challenge and the Role of Nuclear ...
The Energy/Climate-Change Challenge and the Role of Nuclear Energy in ...
10/25/2010 4:00 PM Wong AuditoriumThe Honorable John P. Holdren, '65, SM '66, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the PresidentDescription: In a meaty lecture that serves as a concise and comprehensive primer on the twin challenge of ...
The Future is Gray, Small & Female: Disruptive Demographics ...
The Future is Gray, Small & Female: Disruptive Demographics and ...
11/02/2010 4:00 PM 4"237Joseph F. Coughlin, Director, MIT AgeLab; Engineering Systems DivisionDescription: If the prospect of aging and infirmity seems remote, you could use some time with AGNES (Age Gain Now Empathy System), a wearable apparatus that approximates ...
The Power of Competition: How to Focus the World's Brains ...
The Power of Competition: How to Focus the World's Brains on your ...
06/06/2009 9:00 AM Wong AuditoriumFiona Murray, Sarofim Family Career Development ProfessorDescription: Cooperation may be making us "a little bit too nice" when it comes to innovation, suggests Fiona Murray. She believes there's nothing like competition for injecting ...
The Road from Copenhagen
The Road from Copenhagen
Following the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, a five-member panel reviews the pros and cons of the events that took place.
The U.S. Energy Crisis and the Role of New Nuclear Plants
The U.S. Energy Crisis and the Role of New Nuclear Plants
11/05/2007 3:30 PM 32"141Thomas A. Christopher, President and CEO, AREVA NP Inc.Description: "This machine of ours is running out of control" is Thomas A. Christopher's sobering assessment of the consequences we face as a result of our insatiable appetite for energy. ...
The Underground City: Preliminary Findings about Beijing's ...
The Underground City: Preliminary Findings about Beijing's Bomb Shelter ...
Professor Annette M. Kim presents preliminary findings of her research about Beijing's elaborate underground housing market.
The World is Flat
The World is Flat
05/16/2005 4:00 PM 10-250Thomas L. Friedman, NY Times Foreign Affairs ColumnistDescription: Chances are good that Bhavya in Bangalore will read your next x-ray, or as Thomas Friedman learned first hand, "Grandma Betty in her bathrobe" will make your Jet Blue plane reservation from her Salt ...
The World is Flat 3.0
The World is Flat 3.0
Elaborating on his World is Flat thesis, Friedman describes how this new global order puts creative, entrepreneurial individuals in the driver's seat, and poses distinct new challenges and opportunities.
The World Turned Upside Down: The Impact of the Return of ...
The World Turned Upside Down: The Impact of the Return of India and China ...
04/04/2006 4:00 PM 10-105Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr., President, Economic Strategy Institute Description: The world isn't so much flat as gravely tilting, "and may be on the way to some kind of self-destruction," believes Clyde Prestowitz, Jr. We're due for a major ...
Tomorrow's Engineering Crisis
Tomorrow's Engineering Crisis
09/28/2005 3:15 KresgeHoward Anderson, William Porter Distinguished Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurship, MIT Sloan; Kristina M. Johnson, Dean, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University ; Sophie V. Vanderbroek, Chief Engineer and Vice President, Xerox Engineering Center, Xerox Corporation ; ...
Toward India 2020: Challenges and Opportunities
Toward India 2020: Challenges and Opportunities
09/09/2009 11:00 AM Bartos theaterDr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman, Indian Planning CommissionDescription: People sometimes ask Montek Singh Ahluwalia questions loaded with "aspirational objectives," such as when India will "get rid of poverty." Few are as ...
Transportation, the Built Environment and Greenhouse Gas ...
Transportation, the Built Environment and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in ...
04/06/2010 4:00 PM 3"270Chris Zegras, Ford Career Development Assistant Professor of Transportation and Urban Planning, MITDescription: It seems that income and travel are inextricably linked. As communities gain wealth and prosperity, their travel footprint ...