Global Poverty: How Demanding Are Our Obligations?
Global Poverty: How Demanding Are Our Obligations?
09/21/2007 3:30 PM 32-155Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University and laureate professor at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of MelbourneDescription: Peter Singer walks listeners through one of his most ...
One Laptop per Child: Revolutionizing How the World's ...
One Laptop per Child: Revolutionizing How the World's Children Engage in ...
01/17/2007 7:00 PM Walter Bender, SM '80, Senior Research Scientist, MIT Media LabDescription: In an informal conversation with an MIT Museum audience, Walter Bender describes the mission and progress of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) venture. The brainchild of ...
Global Entrepreneurship: Inefficiency as Opportunity in the ...
Global Entrepreneurship: Inefficiency as Opportunity in the Developing ...
09/21/2006 7:00 PM KresgeAlex (Sandy) Pentland, PhD '82, Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of Human Dynamics Research, MIT Media Lab; Damien Balsan, SM '02, VP Business Development, WAY Systems ; Rick Burnes, Co-founder, Charles River ...
Planning After Katrina: What Have We Learned so Far?
Planning After Katrina: What Have We Learned so Far?
09/21/2006 6:00 PM Bartos TheaterRachel Bratt, Tufts University; Philip Thompson, MIT; Jon Whitten, Tufts University; Stephen Villavaso, AICP; Peter Lowitt, AICP; Lawrence Vale, SM '88, Professor and Head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT School of ...
Fighting Poverty: What Works? The Work of the Abdul Latif ...
Fighting Poverty: What Works? The Work of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty ...
06/10/2006 11:00 AM KresgeEsther Duflo, PhD '99, Abdul Latif Jameel Prof of Poverty Allev & Develop Department of EconomicsDescription: Esther Duflo hopes to take the measure of a wide range of anti-poverty programs. Applying scientific methodology, her colleagues and ...
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 ...
MLK Breakfast 2006: Student Remarks
MLK Breakfast 2006: Student Remarks
With a mix of bitterness and hope, these two young men address the legacy of Martin Luther King.
Leading Across Boundaries
Leading Across Boundaries
Peter Senge, SM '72, PhD '78, Senior Lecturer MIT. Founding Chair of the Society for Organizational Learning; Ronald O'Connor, Founder, Management Sciences for Health; Frannie Leautier, Vice President, World Bank Institute; Jeremy Hockenstein, MBA '99, CEO/COO, Digital Divide Data Description: ...
The Hundred Dollar Laptop-Computing for Developing Nations
The Hundred Dollar Laptop-Computing for Developing Nations
09/28/2005 8:45 AM KresgeNicholas Negroponte, BAR '66, MAR '66, Chairman and Co-Founder, MIT Media Laboratory Wiesner Professor of Media Technology; Chairman, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)Description: Imagine a world where all school-age children own a laptop computer, ...
Muhammad Yunus: Ending Global Poverty
Muhammad Yunus: Ending Global Poverty
Muhammad Yunus, Founder and Managing Director, Grameen Bank; 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Ambassador for the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS Imagine a bank that loans money based on a borrower's desperate circumstances -- where, as Muhammad Yunus says, "the less you have, the ...
Forced Labor in the Globalized World
Forced Labor in the Globalized World
Before buying your next chocolate bar or sweatshirt, bear in mind its potential hidden cost: the forced labor of an impoverished worker.
Institutions, Geography, and Growth
Institutions, Geography, and Growth
06/05/2004 3:00 PM WongRoberto Rigobon, PhD '97, Professor of Economics; Description: Three billion people on earth live on less than two dollars a day. A relative handful of us fare astronomically better. How do economists account for global "haves" and "have-nots"? Roberto Rigobon ...
Rhetoric or Reality: Civil Rights Under Siege
Rhetoric or Reality: Civil Rights Under Siege
02/05/2004 7:30 AM WalkerDr. Julianne Malveaux, PhD '80, Economist, authorDescription: In this keynote address, Julianne Malveaux takes deadly aim at the hypocrisy she finds in many sectors of American society including exploitation of low wage workers and legacy ...
Why is there No Class Warfare in the US? American ...
Why is there No Class Warfare in the US? American Exceptionalism and ...
04/23/2003 3:00 PM 3-442Chuck Collins, co-founder and Program Director of United for a Fair Economy and Responsible WealthDescription: In this talk, Collins discusses the economic impact of the (then) proposed and (now) passed into law Bush tax cut, and issues around ...