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The Rise of Winner-Take-All Urbanism
1 comment on The Rise of Winner-Take-All UrbanismEarlier this year, Richard Florida published Why America’s Richest Cities Keep Getting Richer in The Atlantic. Florida is a leading urban studies author and researcher, professor at the University of Toronto and Director of Cities at its Martin Prosperity Institute. “The most important and innovative industries and the most talented, most ambitious, and wealthiest people…
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What’s the value of gender diversity in technology-based disciplines? Is gender diversity an asset for technology-based companies? Are men inherently better than women at technology-based jobs? These are questions that have long been discussed. Lots of progress has been made in addressing them. But they recently resurfaced following an internal memo by Google engineer James…
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The July-August issue of the Harvard Business Review features an article by NYU and IESE professor Pankaj Ghemawat, – Globalization in the Age of Trump: Protectionism Will Change How Companies Do Business – But Not in the Ways You Think. Ghemawat has long been conducting research on globalization, and has written extensively on the subject. …
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Every four years since 1997, the US National Intelligence Council has been publishing a Global Trends report on the key trends that will shape the world over the following twenty years. This unclassified strategic report is intended to provide the incoming administration and other senior leaders with a framework for long-range policy assessment. Global Trends…
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Much has been written about our digital technology revolution and its impact on economies, societies and individuals. But few have brought the kind of historical perspective to the subject that helps us better understand our turbulent times like scholar and consultant Carlota Perez in her 2002 book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of…
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Several months ago, MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy launched its first annual Inclusive Innovation Competition (IIC). MIT is one of the world’s top research universities, renowned as well for its entrepreneurial culture. But the objectives of the IIC are quite different and unique. Instead of competing on creating the most advanced technologies or compelling…
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Listening to cable news, talk radio, and our heated election campaigns, you might quickly conclude that the US is going to hell, that the best days of America are behind us and that the country is unraveling right in front of our eyes. To a greater or lesser extent, these sentiment are to be expected…
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A recent NY Times article, The Sunny Side of Greed by Op-Ed columnist Frank Bruni, argues that corporations may well now be among the strongest socially progressive forces in the country. In issue after issue, – e.g., marriage equality, the confederate flag, immigration reform, – the business community has supported what we generally think of…
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“Innovation – identified by MIT economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow as the driver of long-term, sustainable economic growth and prosperity – has been a hallmark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since its inception.” Thus starts The MIT Innovation Initiative: Sustaining and Extending a Legacy of Innovation, the preliminary report of a yearlong effort…
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In a column recently published in the NY Times, Robert Reich, – UC Berkeley professor, author and former Secretary of Labor, – wrote about his experience while in an airport to catch a flight. A well-dressed man approached him and said: “You are a Commie dirtbag,” actually using an unprintable profanity. Reich was taken aback, but…