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Financing Urban Resiliency: Coastal Resiliency in Lower Manhattan
Cities across the US, particularly those along the coasts, are facing mounting threats from climate
change and sea-level rise. In New York City, Lower Manhattan was hit particularly hard by Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
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panel
Asia's Geopolitical Chessboard: Avoiding Checkmate
Geopolitical risk has become an ever-more important consideration for businesses with global sup
ply chains and multinational operations.
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panel
The Roundtable: Strategies for a New Demography--Linking Healthy Longevity and Productivity (Invite only)
The inevitability of demographic change requires fresh thinking and new priorities by businesses
, governments, and social institutions. Attitudes and institutionalized barriers to participation by older adults must be broken.
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panel
The Power of Prediction: How Business & Society Can Benefit from a World of Data (Invite only)
Leveraging the latest breakthroughs in predictive capabilities has the potential to further tran
sform industries and improve lives around the world.
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video
Risky Business: Understanding Asia's Geopolitical and Societal Uncertainties
As investors show renewed interest in Asia, old concerns about political and economic risks are re
surfacing. Although large parts of the region are under dynamic new management, old animosities appear to threaten Asia's rise.
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video
Creating Stronger Partnerships for Global Food Security
The global population will reach 9 billion by 2050, an increase that will exacerbate shortfalls in
food production and distribution.
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video
Global Consumers: Riding the Wave of the World's Growing Middle Class
The world's middle class is expected to burgeon from less than 2 billion consumers today to nearly
5 billion by 2030, reflecting rapid growth in developing nations.
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video
The Catalyst for Change: What's Working in Philanthropy -- and What's Not?
While corporate philanthropy continues to decline, U.S. individuals gave an estimated $350 billion
to nonprofits in 2014, roughly 2 percent of GDP. But is all this generosity effective?
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video
Diabetes and Obesity: An Urgent Global Health Crisis
Despite many treatments and technological advances, the health of the US and global populations co
ntinues to decline. Chronic disease continues to increase and have a detrimental effect on personal health and health-care costs.
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video
Peak Oil and Green Energy: Both Fossils?
With oil prices in the tank, the consumer dollar goes further. Indeed, the implications of oil's s
lide extend to the entire world economy, and many of these impacts favor the United States.
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video
Boom or Bust: Opportunities and Risk in M&A
An improving U.S. economy, continued low interest rates and thousands of companies sitting on pile
s of cash provide an abundance of fuel for an upsurge in mergers and acquisitions.
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video
Prescription for Wellness: Extending Our Health Span
The last century has seen advances in life span leading to individual and societal achievements th
at would have been unimaginable to prior generations.
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