This blog first appeared on the Bloomberg Businessweek website…….
Year: 2012
Somebody has to articulate significance of fiscal cliff
CNN: Senior fellow Dan Glickman appeared on CNN Starting Point with Soledad O'Brien…….
Trained Incapacity: The Rise of Specialized Master’s Degrees
This blog first appeared on the Bloomberg Businessweek website. "Generalist species is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different resources. A specialist species can only survive in a narrow range of environmental conditions." – Warren Bennis When I was president of the University of Cincinnati in the 1970s, the dean of the medical school poignantly remarked that the only generalist he could find at the hospital or in the faculty was the patient. That irony has come to mind frequently in the past year or so when I……
Celebrating the Season and Obama’s Victory: Will He Be a Great President?
Huffington Post: Senior fellow Derek Shearer blogs for the Huffington Post reminiscing about the election season…….
Immigration: Red, white, blue … and gray
Denverpost.com: Faculty fellow Roberto Suro blogs about the immigration reform needed in the United States…….
How the President Can Move the Debate on Resolving the Fiscal Cliff
Huffington Post: Senior fellow Dan Glickman tackles the issue of the Fiscal Cliff in his latest blog…….
Millions of Africans use cell phones for health news and information
WASHINGTON – Millions of Africans now receive critical health information on their cell phones, according to speakers at a CCLP forum here yesterday, with the Voice of America alone reaching tens of millions of Africans a week. "VOA's African Health Network is a multimedia initiative in thirteen languages that reaches 50 million people a week," said Nancy Coviello, the AHN's Project Manager. "Literally no one else is doing this – not the BBC, Deutsche Welle, not anyone that we can find."……
Abraham Lincoln’s Lessons for President Obama
Huffington Post: Senior fellow Dan Glickman blogs about Abraham Lincoln's Lesson's for President Obama…….
California Attorney General highlights CCLP research on role of mobile technology in human trafficking
California Attorney General Kamala Harris (pictured, above center with Clothilde Hewlett, and Geoffrey Cowan) urged law enforcement officials, NGOs, and researchers in the fight against human trafficking to "dedicate [themselves] to the adoption of technology" at her Human Trafficking Leadership Symposium on November 16, 2012 at the University of Southern California. The symposium coincided with the release of her new report, "The State of Human Trafficking in California 2012." The report highlights CCLP's work in the area, including its research on online classified sites' facilitation of trafficking. It notes CCLP's finding that "the efficiency and anonymity of social networking sites……
Business Leaders on the Silver Screen
Robert Redford, center, stars in the 1972 film "The Candidate" This blog first appeared on the Bloomberg Businessweek website. Thanksgiving is Hollywood's Holiday, when the cinema capital of the world releases its very best films as close to the end of the year as possible. And for two very good reasons. The first is obvious: There's just so much turkey or family you can eat or take, so what else is there to do? The second is more serious, recency: getting the best nominees released as close as possible to the Academy Awards' votes for the year's best films. In……