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SUMMARY:BOOK TALK: Capital and the Common Good
DESCRIPTION:Capital and the Common Good\nHow Innovative Finance Is Tackling the World’s Most Urgent Problems\nwith professor\nGeorgia Levenson Keohane\nMonday\, October 17\, 2016\nUris Hall\, Room 332\n6:00 – 8:00 p.m. \nRSVP \nDespite social and economic advances around the world\, poverty and disease persist\, exacerbated by the mounting challenges of climate change\, natural disasters\, political conflict\, mass migration\, and economic inequality. While governments commit to addressing these challenges\, traditional public and philanthropic dollars are not enough. Here\, innovative finance has shown a way forward: by borrowing techniques from the world of finance\, we can raise capital for social investments today. Innovative finance has provided polio vaccines to children in the DRC\, crop insurance to farmers in India\, pay-as-you-go solar electricity to Kenyans\, and affordable housing and transportation to New Yorkers. It has helped governmental\, commercial\, and philanthropic resources meet the needs of the poor and underserved and build a more sustainable and inclusive prosperity. \n \nCapital and the Common Good shows how market failure in one context can be solved with market solutions from another: an expert in securitization bundles future development aid into bonds to pay for vaccines today; an entrepreneur turns a mobile phone into an array of financial services for the unbanked; and policy makers adapt pay-for-success models from the world of infrastructure to human services like early childhood education\, maternal health\, and job training. Revisiting the successes and missteps of these efforts\, Georgia Levenson Keohane argues that innovative finance is as much about incentives and sound decision-making as it is about money. When it works\, innovative finance gives us the tools\, motivation\, and security to invest in our shared future.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/book-talk-capital-common-good/
LOCATION:Uris Hall\, Room 332\, 3022 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Tamer Center for Social Enterprise @ CBS
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SUMMARY:Natural Vs. Unnatural Acts: What George Bernard Shaw Taught Me About Startups
DESCRIPTION:The Columbia Women Inventors Network and the Columbia Startup Lab present a talk from Michael Sikorsky\, CEO and co‐founder of Robots and Pencils. Michael will talk about what every startup and new venture can learn from the nineteenth century Irish playwright\, critic and polemicist – what are common mistakes people make\, and how to overcome the seduction of unnatural acts. \n\nMicheal Sikorsky\, CEO and Co-Founder\, Robots and Pencils Inc. \nMichael is the CEO and co-founder of Robots and Pencils Inc. With over 20 years of experience creating first-of-its kind software\, he is a renowned strategist\, innovator and pioneer in the mobile tech space. \nAt Robots and Pencils\, Michael leads a world-class team of developers and designers who have created over 250 apps used by 77 million people worldwide. Founded in 2009 with the vision that mobile will be more transformative than the Internet\, the team has built a reputation for creating top-ranking consumer apps\, transformative enterprise apps and world-first learning platforms. With a growth rate of 4971% over five years\, Robots and Pencils was named the 34th fastest growing technology company in North America in 2014. \nMichael credits the success of his company to its secret sauce – a process for following the talent as well as an internal ‘one culture’ partnership between award-winning artists and developers. Everything that Robots and Pencils does starts by blending the sciences with the humanities – the robots with the pencils. No stranger to the spotlight\, Michael has been widely celebrated for his entrepreneurial thinking\, and\, most recently\, he was one of only six in the world invited to the 2014 World Entrepreneur of the Year awards as part of a special citation on global growth. \nDriven by a love of learning and new insights and ideas\, Michael is currently completing executive education programs at the MIT Sloan School of Management and The Columbia Business School.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/natural-vs-unnatural-acts-george-bernard-shaw-taught-startups/
LOCATION:Columbia Startup Lab\, 69 Charlton St. @ Varick\, NYC\, 10014\, United States
CATEGORIES:Columbia Startup Lab
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SUMMARY:Data: Past\, Present\, and Future
DESCRIPTION:Join \nProfessors Matt Jones\, James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization\nin the Department of History\nand \nProfessor Chris Wiggins\, Associate Professor Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics\nmoderated by \nDavid Madigan\, Professor of Statistics\, EVP and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences\nProfessors Jones and Wiggins will discuss the past\, present\, and future of data in our lives. Each will speak briefly on how students\, scholars\, and citizens make sense of data in science\, public policy\, and our personal lives. We invite Columbia University students (all divisions) to RSVP
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/data-past-present-future/
LOCATION:Schapiro Building Room 750\, 530 West 120th Street\, New York City\, 10027\, United States
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