A Conversation on Leadership
A Conversation on Leadership
03/03/2011 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumUrsula M. Burns, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Xerox Corporation Description: Her "journey to the top" is one that "could only happen in the United States of America," says Ursula Burns, describing her rise from New York City projects to the apex of ...
A Genius for Change, and the Passion to Do It
A Genius for Change, and the Passion to Do It
10/10/2007 6:00 PM MuseumAmy Smith, '84, SM '95, ENG '95, Senior Lecturer, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Jules Walter, '08, MIT '08 (Computer Science); Kendra Johnson, MIT '09; Amos Winter, SM '05, M.S. Mech Engineering, '05Description: If you live in a ...
An Interview with Professor Xav Briggs
An Interview with Professor Xav Briggs
Professor Xav Briggs talks about his time in Washington, D.C., working in the Obama Administration.
Bill Gates - Bright minds and big problems
Bill Gates - Bright minds and big problems
Bill Gates, philanthropist and retired co-founder of Microsoft Corp., urged MIT students on April 21, 2010 to focus their talent and energy on tackling the world's biggest challenges, including global health, poverty and education.
Bridging the Delivery Gap to Global Health
Bridging the Delivery Gap to Global Health
11/19/2007 12:00 PM Wong AuditoriumDr. Jim Yong Kim, Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard Medical School; Board of Directors, Partners in Health Description: Jim Yong Kim and Partners in Health are paradoxically suffering from their ...
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 ...
Diversifying Cities: Migration, Habitation, and Community ...
Diversifying Cities: Migration, Habitation, and Community Development
04/04/2008 3:15 PM Broad InstituteXavier de Souza Briggs, Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning, MIT ; Jessica Andors, MCP '99, Deputy Director, Lawrence CommunityWorks; Abel Valenzuela, Jr., MCP '88, PhD '95, Professor, Director, Center for the Study of ...
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 ...
Ensuring Educational Access: Our Challenge, Our Opportunity
Ensuring Educational Access: Our Challenge, Our Opportunity
02/21/2008 7:30 AM Walker Morss HallJamira Cotton, '08, Undergraduate, Chemical Engineering; Kenneth Kweku Bota, Second"year graduate student, Dept of Chemistry and Whitehead InstituteDescription: Two MIT students honor their experience at MIT, but ask that the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Games and Civic Engagement
Games and Civic Engagement
Video games could transform the world some day, if only their potential could be fully realized.
Bill Gates on Giving Back
Giving Back: Finding the Best Way to Make a Difference
The world's most intractable problems might be cracked if more of our "brightest minds" could be tempted to work on them, asserts Bill Gates.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Harish Hande: Energy Services for the Poor
Harish Hande: Energy Services for the Poor
This seminar was given on October 7, 2008 as part of the MITEI Seminar Series. Abstract: The poor in the world pay more for energy services, which are often unreliable and from unsustainable sources. There are ways to provide the poor with energy services from ...