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Category: Business & Economics

Enrico Moretti, Economics Professor & Fulbright Fellow, UC Berkeley

July 9, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Public Policy, Uncategorized

New US employment numbers were released yesterday, and as you surely know by now, they brought bad news. This happened, as did this… And you

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Clara Shih, CEO, Hearsay

June 8, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Technology, Uncategorized

Facebook’s IPO missteps aside, there can be no argument that social media is a major — if not THE major — next step in human

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Diane Brady, Senior Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek

June 2, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Uncategorized

The Queen’s 60 year jubilee in England is not the only major anniversary of an institution this week. This also marks the 50 year anniversary

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Laura Stoll, New Economics Foundation

June 2, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Uncategorized

What causes well-being? What enables some people and societies and countries to prosper and others to fail? What does it mean to prosper — is

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Daniel Yergin, Energy Expert, Author of “The Prize” & “The Quest”

May 16, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, International Affairs, Public Policy, Uncategorized

Is there a more important topic in the world today than the future of energy? From global economies to local politics, from what we breathe

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Steve Coll, President, New America Foundation

May 14, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, International Affairs, Uncategorized

If you were to list some of the world’s most secretive institutions, you surely wouldn’t be surprised to see the CIA or the Bin Laden

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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Yale, founder & president of the Chief Executive Leadership Institute

May 12, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Uncategorized

The background of a CEO at one of America’s best known companies, it turns out, is not exactly what we thought it was. Another CEO

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Steve Blank, Entrepreneur & UC Berkeley Lecturer

May 12, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Technology, Uncategorized

With the launching of Facebook’s $100 billion IPO bid and their stunning $1 billion purchase of the photosharing app Instagram, we have clearly hit a

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Valerie Block, Deputy Managing Editor, NY Crain’s Business

April 14, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Uncategorized

Restauranteur David Bouley was one. And Candy entrepreneur Dylan Lauren. And Rachel Maddow. Amare Stoudemire. What do they all have in common. They have all

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Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University, School of International & Public Affairs

April 14, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, International Affairs, Uncategorized

Just one year ago, all eyes were on the Middle East — in particular, Egypt — as the Arab Spring sprung. One year later, the

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Charles Duhigg, Author “The Power of Habit”

March 10, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Culture, Uncategorized

How many times, when your kid or your spouse or your friend, has done that one thing that really bothers you — have you said:

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Anne Morriss, CEO GenePeeks & co-Author “Uncommon Service”

March 10, 2012 admin All Conversations, Business & Economics, Culture, Uncategorized

Ever wonder why, if so much of our economy is based on service, great service is still so rare? Or why, if your call is

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