In March, the European Union unemployment rate hit 8.3%. At same time, half a million jobs remain unfilled - particularly in Germany and Britain. What can be...
We become good at what we practice and most of us are experts at practicing distraction. We live in a society that...
We become good at what we practice and most of us are experts at practicing distraction. We live in a society that trains us to multi-task and jump from one ...
Surrounded by and populated with deserts, Israel has famously created a green, agricultural oasis out of its arid...
Surrounded by and populated with deserts, Israel has famously created a green, agricultural oasis out of its arid landscape. This was made possible by the in...
In March 2013 the Australian Sports Commission -- through the Australian Sports Outreach program (ASOP),...
In March 2013 the Australian Sports Commission -- through the Australian Sports Outreach program (ASOP), commissioned the production of a video on Developmen...
Many solutions to improve agricultural productivity and farmer livelihoods also have positive impacts on climate...
Many solutions to improve agricultural productivity and farmer livelihoods also have positive impacts on climate change adaptation, and they often aren’t cas...
Watch the next episode about San Francisco becoming a zero waste city:...
Watch the next episode about San Francisco becoming a zero waste city: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg3OA1s8-SI&list=UUJsSEDFFnMFvW9JWU6XUn0Q As urban pop...
Alex is a Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex graduated top of his class from Oxford University and...
Alex is a Professor of Finance at London Business School. Alex graduated top of his class from Oxford University and then worked for Morgan Stanley in investment banking (London) and fixed income sales and trading (NYC). After a PhD in Finance from MIT Sloan as a Fulbright Scholar, he joined Wharton, where he was granted tenure and won 14 teaching awards in six years. Alex’s research interests are in corporate finance, behavioural finance, CSR, and practical investment strategies. He has been awarded the Moskowitz Prize for Socially Responsible Investing and the FIR-PRI prize for Finance and Sustainability, and was named a Rising Star of Corporate Governance by Yale University. Alex co-led a session at the 2014 World Economic Forum in Davos, and runs a blog, “Access to Finance” (www.alexedmans.blogspot.com), that aims to make complex finance topics accessible to a general audience.
The white man came to Africa as missionaries and explorers but were soon sitting on a table dividing Africa amongst...
The white man came to Africa as missionaries and explorers but were soon sitting on a table dividing Africa amongst themselves. Here's a peep into how Europeans looted Africa of it wealth and sovereignty...
Half of the world's poorest people have something in common: they're small farmers. In this eye-opening talk,...
Half of the world's poorest people have something in common: they're small farmers. In this eye-opening talk, activist Andrew Youn shows how his group, One A...
Anita is an editor at Mashable, and founder of The Other Wave, a website that explores film and television from a...
Anita is an editor at Mashable, and founder of The Other Wave, a website that explores film and television from a diverse perspective. She navigates the evol...