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Impact Investing: new promise for the "startup nation"? Milken Institute report identifies innovative ways for Israel to bolster social sector
LOS ANGELES -- Israel's social sector -- the public and private agencies, institutions, and business
es that address the country's social and economic development -- plays a vital part in its economy by identifying and dispensing crucial services.
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NASA climate scientist proposes a novel way of breaking the political stalemate on global warming in the latest Milken Institute Review
LOS ANGELES— Drew Shindell, a climate scientist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, urges po
licymakers to postpone the showdown on carbon emissions to focus on other potent sources of warming— such as methane, soot particles and ozone— whose con
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Milken Institute's annual review of U.S. Best-Performing Cities: Tech is back, and so are some traditional manufacturing towns
San Jose knows the way— to No. 1.
LOS ANGELES— The Milken Institute’s annual index of Best-Performi
ng Cities indicates that tech is back, especially in the world's best-known hub of innovation.
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Irving appointed president of the Milken Institute
LOS ANGELES— The Milken Institute announced today that Paul Irving has been named president. Michael
L. Klowden remains the Institute’s chief executive officer, and Michael Milken, founder of the Institute, remains chairman of the board.
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Milken Institute identifies ways to reduce dependence on foreign oil and create jobs Opportunities abound for U.S. industrial biotech, but time is tight
LOS ANGELES -- The United States could replace 20 percent of petrochemical consumption with bio-base
d products over the next decade -- while creating jobs and capturing a large share of the global renewable chemical market.
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In the realm of high tech, Massachusetts wears the crown Maryland, California, and Colorado also score well in Milken Institute survey of top tech states
LOS ANGELES— Massachusetts is first— again— in the Milken Institute's State Technology and Science I
ndex 2012, released today.
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Milken Institute appoints Staci Warden to head Center for Financial Markets
LOS ANGELES -- CEO Mike Klowden today announced the appointment of Staci Warden as executive directo
r of the Milken Institute's Was
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Where the World Connects?: Annual Milken Institute Global Conference brings Tony Blair, Bill Gates, Al Gore and other leaders to Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES -- At a time when sustainable economic recovery still eludes many parts of the world, wh
en the promise of scientific breakthroughs has created new hope for patients, and when trillions of dollars of cash that could spur new jobs sits on the
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FasterCures adds innovation experts as senior fellows
Washington, DC -- FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, is expanding its work by adding two
highly respected innovators— biopharmaceutical industry expert Bernard Munos and open science leader John Wilbanks— as senior fellows.
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Would a big hike in minimum wage destroy jobs? Not so, argues Alan Manning in the latest Milken Institute Review
LOS ANGELES -- Economist Alan Manning of the London School of Economics takes on the conventional wi
sdom that President Obama's proposed $9 minimum wage will price unskilled workers out of the market.
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Sustainable Investment Leaders Urge U.S. Community Development Advocates to Develop New Messages and Products to Attract Additional Sources of Capital
Report also finds growing investor interest in community development finance
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FasterCures Names K. Kimbely McCleary as Director of Strategic Initiatives
WASHINGTON, DC— FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute, today announced that K. Kimberly McCl
eary joined the team as director of strategic initiatives.
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