[Mitworld] Steven Hamburg on Climate Change, Fialkow, Fischman, and Laats on Entrepreneurship

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 24 |  February 10, 2010

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Climate Change in a Changing World: Meeting the Needs of Humanity and the Planet
April 22, 2009

The “dominant story of the next century” will be one of either gloom or redemption, 
says Steven Hamburg, depending on how humanity chooses to address climate change.  To date, 
Earth’s inhabitants have not meaningfully acknowledged this choice.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/742

Speaker:
Steven Hamburg
Chief Scientist, Environmental Defense FundAssociate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Environmental Studies, Brown University


Event Host:
The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values

"Climate change comes down fundamentally to ethics and values, and aligning them with science 
and personal interest."
-Steven Hamburg

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Leadership and Entrepreneurship
October 20, 2009

While their ventures couldn’t be more dissimilar -- engineering high tech defense gear for soldiers, 
and running an exclusive online boutique -- this panel’s entrepreneurs share some common 
experiences and lessons.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/741

Speakers:
David Fialkow
Managing Director
General Catalyst Partners

Ben Fischman
President and Chief Executive Officer

Retail Convergence


Alex Laats '89
President

BBN Technologies, Delta Division


Event Host:
MIT Leadership Center

"It’s not going to happen the way you think. You’ll set up the plan, get there, but take wholly 
 different roads then you expected when you started."
-Ben Fischman

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In The Pipeline:

The Economic Meltdown: What Have We Learned, if Anything?

Presented By:
MIT Economics Department

Speaker:
Paul Krugman
Professor of Economics and International Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University

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