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Lowell McAdam – A Nimble Behemoth Enters the Golden Age of Innovation

Big numbers don’t scare Lowell McAdam. The Verizon CEO, sitting atop the largest US telecom provider, in September raised almost…

11 years ago

Global Banking Alliance for Women – GBA: Banking the Female Economy

Inez Murray is the CEO of the Global Banking Alliance for Women, a global consortium of financial institutions driving women’s…

11 years ago

Stephen Colbert: Laughing All the Way to the Top – Comedian Airs Truth through Jest

Powerful, Authoritative, Patriot, Honourable, Independent, Courageous, Originalist, Strong, Kingmaker, All-Beef, Influential, Sponsored, Star-Spangled, National Treasure, Self-Evident, Ameriwill!, Principled, Indivisible, Constitutional,…

11 years ago

Sudan Cabinet Shake-Up Boosts Conciliation Efforts

Former US special envoy to Sudan Princeton Lyman has made yet another appeal for the resumption of the political dialogue…

11 years ago

Otaviano Canuto, World Bank Group: Walking on the Wild Side – Monetary Policy and Prudential Regulation

Global financial integration and the linkages between the financial and the real sides of economies are sources of huge policy…

11 years ago

Tobias Preis: Beating the Stock Market with Google’s Big Data

Google your way to riches: It can be done and Tobias Preis has proved it. Search query data on publically…

11 years ago

Perry Chen: Unleashing the Power of Collective Funding, Getting Bright Ideas to Fruition

In the spring of 1885, publisher Joseph Pulitzer launched a fundraising campaign in his newspaper New York World to raise…

11 years ago

Deficits Matter, but Not the Way You Might Think

By Bob Veres. This originally appeared on Advisor Perspectives. Congress is coming off of a bruising debate over the deficit ceiling…

11 years ago

A Crowded Room with Barry Sternlicht and Kent Swig: New Financing for Real Estate

By David Drake Crowdfunding is taking real estate financing by surprise and the big players are taking notice. When Joe…

11 years ago

USAID: Science and Engineering Diaspora Networks – Communities Mobilizing to Solve Global Development Challenges

In a research lab at the University of Buffalo (UB), New York, scientist Sarbajit Banerjee and his colleagues have honed…

11 years ago