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Alex Edmans talks about the long-term impacts of social responsibility and challenges the idea that caring for society is at the expense of profit.

Alex is a Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex graduated top of his class from Oxford University and then worked for Morgan Stanley in investment banking (London) and fixed income sales and trading (NYC). After a PhD in Finance from MIT Sloan as a Fulbright Scholar, he joined Wharton, where he was granted tenure and won 14 teaching awards in six years.

Alex’s research interests are in corporate finance, behavioral finance, CSR, and practical investment strategies. He has been awarded the Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing and the FIR-PRI prize for Finance and Sustainability, and was named a Rising Star of Corporate Governance by Yale University. Alex co-led a session at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos, and runs a blog, “Access to Finance” (www.alexedmans.blogspot.com), that aims to make complex finance topics accessible to a general audience.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

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Tackling Malnutrition Improves both Food and Health Systems During Covid-19?

This is a Devex's report a media platform for the global development community and social enterprise. 

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Voter Suppression and Disproportionality in the American Electoral System, By Prof. Andy Winnick  

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Dr. Andy Winnick, Professor Emeritus of Economics and Statistics, California State. He is the president of the American Institue progressive democracy, a non-partisan organization that promotes voter registration. his organization organized voter democracy. He has worked with the president's council of advisors for economics

Meaningful Presentation by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs; " How Do We Make The International System Work Effectively To Solve The Problems?".

He is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including debt crises, hyperinflations, the transition from central planning to market economies, the control of AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, the escape from extreme poverty, and the battle against human-induced climate change.  

Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he holds the rank of University Professor, the university’s highest academic rank. Sachs held the position of Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University from 2002 to 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, a commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, and an SDG Advocate for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. From 2001-18, Sachs served as Special Advisor to UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and António Guterres (2017-18). 

Sachs has authored and edited numerous books, including three New York Times bestsellers: The End of Poverty (2005), Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet (2008), and The Price of Civilization (2011). Other books include To Move the World: JFK’s Quest for Peace (2013), The Age of Sustainable Development (2015), Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair & Sustainable (2017), A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (2018), and most recently, The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions (2020).

Sachs was the co-recipient of the 2015 Blue Planet Prize, the leading global prize for environmental leadership. He was twice named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders and has received 34 honorary degrees. The New York Times called Sachs “probably the most important economist in the world,” and Time magazine called Sachs “the world’s best-known economist.” A survey by The Economist ranked Sachs as among the three most influential living economists.

Prior to joining Columbia, Sachs spent over twenty years as a professor at Harvard University, most recently as the Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade. Sachs received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees at Harvard. Sachs is a native of Detroit, Michigan, and currently resides in New York City.

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This topic is discussed and debated by Nils von Heijne and guest Bill Mehleisen 

In the everchanging world, we live in, questions about how, why, and what it means for individuals, organizations, and society as a whole are always raised.

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A conversation conducted by Rotary Club of New York with Bill Mehleisen/Leadership in times of crises

Bill is a director at Mandalah where he works on regenerative business design, Owner of Seek Human, LLC where he runs his independent leadership advisory and coaching practice, and Lead Facilitator / Leadership Coach for Arcadia Consulting an organization performance consultancy. He is also an angel investor and mentor in the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator in New York.

In each of his roles, Bill is exploring how to help businesses, leaders, and teams evolve their thinking and practices to be a transformational force for good.

His philosophy comes from an eclectic mix of mentors, theory, and practices which he summarizes in the following way:

We are going through a big shift: from a mechanistic, hyper-individualism mindset to a regenerative, ecosystem mindset. Business is a tremendous tool to build better futures and can support this shift.

However, mechanistic thinking is often seen in business discounts externalities and can severely limit our potential. There are better ways of doing business. To instigate this shift we explore some key areas:

• Purpose: How do you operate from the Soul of your person / your organization?

• People: How are you developing people so they are better after working with you / your organization?

• Ecosystem: How are you cultivating generative relationships and creating more value than you capture?

• Stewardship: How will you contribute to the health of the system and leave your little piece better than you found it?

Bill lives in Brooklyn, NY but loves spending time in the mountains around Park City, Utah. He enjoys the power of art, music, and play to instigate creativity and transformation.

Dr. Grill, a professor at Keck Graduate Institue (KGI), Dean of Research also teaches undergraduates at the Keck Science Department of The Claremont Colleges. 

His lab’s research at KGI is focused on low-cost vaccines for developing countries. The primary collaborator for this effort is the Botswana Vaccine Institute in Gaborone, Botswana. The focus of these efforts has been to address animal diseases that are devastating to smallholder farmers in Africa. With the disastrous COVID-19 outbreak, the research is now targeting the development of low-cost COVID-19 vaccines for the African countries.

Dr. Grill received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside in 1979. He has published over 25 scientific papers and is an inventor on more than 30 issued US and world patents.

Colin Coleman is the former chief executive officer of Sub-Saharan Africa for Goldman Sachs, and former head of the firm’s Johannesburg office.