[Mitworld] New: Rafael del Pino on Ferrovial, Dower on Cultures of War

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[The Internationalization of Spanish Companies:
 Ferrovial, The Rise of a Multinational]

Rafael del Pino tells the story of Ferrovial, a European firm that
started out in the 1950's building sleeper cars for railroads, that has
grown to a major infrastructure, design, construction, financing and
operations powerhouse.

SPEAKER:
Rafael del Pino SM'86
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, Grupo Ferrovial


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/569/>

[QUOTE]
(on being a young CEO)
"One of the questions they (visiting Sloan students) asked is, 'how come
you became a CEO at such a young age'? And I said, 'well I joined the
company as a simple engineer and I was soon promoted to son of the
owner'."
-- Rafael del Pino


EVENT HOST: MIT Sloan School of Management <http://mitsloan.mit.edu/>

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[Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq]

The current administration began its "great misuse of history" shortly
after 9/11, says John Dower, when it seized upon Japan's 1941 Pearl
Harbor attack as a useful analogy, a way to promote its own invasion of
Iraq and subsequent occupation.

SPEAKER:
John W. Dower
Ford International Professor of History, MIT


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/572/>

[QUOTE]
"Terror and massive destruction are perceived by their users as
genuinely dual use or dual effect tactics. They are morale destroying
where the enemy's concerned, but simultaneously morale boosting where
one's own side is concerned."
-- John Dower


EVENT HOST: The Office of the President of MIT
<http://web.mit.edu/hockfield/>

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The Center for Global Change Science and
The Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences present

Annual Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture

Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Distinguished Professor of Climate and Atmospheric Sciences
University of California, San Diego

Global and Regional Climate Change:
Underlying Science and Emerging Riddles

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