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The 80/20 Rule
Just twenty percent of the members in any group or social system own eighty percent of the assets, indicative that scale indicates a growing concentration of power. The top 2,000 companies employ and influences a million people in the modern world, says author David Rothkopf. With cross-ownership and networking in all circles – business, military, […]
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3 Key Lessons for an Entrepreneurial Internet Company
Hoffman describes 3 key lessons he learned at his first company, SocialNet. 1) Financing strategy should reflect one’s financial capabilities. 2) Focusing on distribution is important. 3) Understanding that the entrepreneurial skill set is different from what is required to work for an established big company.
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Challenges and Opportunities in Asia
Earl discusses the several challenges and mitigation strategies used when marketing to a variety of Asian countries. EA’s strategy to overcome the IP protection problems is to take games online. He also discusses the need for different technology requirements to market in countries like South Korea where social networking is a key driver of sales.
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How Do You Find Soul Mates?
Kawasaki believes that often soul mates are found within your existing social network, but there is danger in that as well. Close relationships outside of a business environment can lead to promising more than can be delivered. Kawasaki explains that it is a tricky process, and can be difficult if a soul mate is not […]
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Challenging the Traditional Model of Philanthropy
The Global Fund for Women was not started by wealthy women. It was started by three working women who were deeply committed, passionately immersed, in a notion that you could promote social change by investing in women. It does not require a lot of money to invest in philanthropy for social change.
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The Story of Global Fund for Women
Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women talks about the organization as a classic Silicon Valley story taking birth in a kitchen in 1987. The organization provides seed and strengthening capital for social entrepreneurs who are working for change.
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Nonviolence: From Gandhi to Martin Luther King
An introduction to the science of nonviolence, mainly as seen through the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi. Historical overview of nonviolence East and the West up to the American Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr., with emphasis on the ideal of principled nonviolence and the reality of mixed or strategic nonviolence in […]
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Democratic Statecraft: Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Part 1)
With the emergence of democracies in Europe and the New World at the beginning of the nineteenth century, political philosophers began to re-evaluate the relationship between freedom and equality. Tocqueville, in particular, saw the creation of new forms of social power that presented threats to human liberty. His most famous work, Democracy in America, was […]
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Introduction: What is Political Philosophy?
Professor Smith discusses the nature and scope of “political philosophy.” The oldest of the social sciences, the study of political philosophy must begin with the works of Plato and Aristotle, and examine in depth the fundamental concepts and categories of the study of politics. The questions “which regimes are best?” and “what constitutes good citizenship?” […]
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Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
In this first of two lectures on the students’ choice end-of-semester novel, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Everything is Illuminated (2002), Professor Hungerford models several methods for approaching and evaluating a new work of fiction. She shows how Foer borrows and adapts themes and styles from other authors on the syllabus in service to his ambition as […]
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