Global Health Speaker Series
CDC Deputy Director for Policy and Communication Donald Shriber speaks about how the agency coordinates and manages its efforts and resources to respond to emerging threats to global health.
Creating an Innovation Revolution
Lenny Mendonca discusses the role the federal budget plays in helping or hindering research, development, and private innovation.
Environmental Sustainability and Clean Energy
United States Secretary of Energy Steven Chu talks about the green technology revolution and why America needs it.
International Development and Entrepreneurship
Nicolas Shea, the innovation and entrepreneurship advisor to the Chilean minister of economy, discusses the Start-Up Chile program.
The Emerging Social Impact Market
Annually, more than a trillion dollars are spent on millions of American nonprofit and government institutions. And 15 nonprofits are started each day. But there is still not significant progress on social issues in the United States. In this audio lecture, sponsored by the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Andrew Wolk, CEO of Root Cause, argues that the time has come for a social impact market—one that fosters innovation and collaboration across the governmental, business, and nonprofit sectors to maximize scarce resources and spread solutions. Wolk believes this cross-sector approach presents our best chance to solve long-term educational, healthcare, environmental, and other problems.
NewSchools Venture Summit
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Chairman of the House Committee on Education George Miller, address the NewSchools Summit 2010.
National Preparedness Month
For a community to maintain a healthy recovery, FEMA administrator Craig Fugate asserts that private and public groups must work collaboratively to help stabilize an environment after disaster.
Scaling Impact in Education
Education entrepreneurs share how innovative ideas, models, and policies may be focused and scaled so that more children can get the education they deserve.
Future of the Health Care Reform
Experts from medical and public health fields offer opinions on the Affordable Health Care Act.
Mindy S. Lubber - Collaborating for Environmental Sustainability
Making environmental sustainability stick is requiring the cooperation of the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. In this audio interview, Stanford Center for Social Innovation correspondent Ashkon Jafari interviews Ceres president Mindy Lubber about how her organization brings together investors, government, human rights groups, and others to build a cross-sector voice for sustainability.
James D. Wolfensohn - Financial Crisis and a Changing Business World
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John B. Taylor - Financial Crisis and a Changing Business World
While Wall Street's role in the financial crisis is widely discussed, the government's role is often less well understood. In this audio interview, Stanford MBA student Joy Sun talks with John Taylor, a renowned macroeconomist and professor at Stanford University, about how government regulation and policy have shaped the recovery from the economic crisis and how they may prevent similar crises in the future.
Edward P. Lazear - Financial Crisis and a Changing Business World
The future of financial regulation has been a topic of intense debate in the aftermath of the financial crisis. In this audio interview, Stanford MBA student Lisa Scheible talks with Edward Lazear, an expert on labor economics from Stanford, about how government regulation and policy have influenced the economic recovery and how they can prevent similar crises in the future.
Richard Boly - Growing Entrepreneurship in Italy
The U.S. government is working to grow the "ecosystem" for entrepreneurship abroad as a part of its international development efforts. In this audio lecture, Richard Boly, a member of the U.S. Foreign Service, discusses how he managed a program of the U.S. embassy to promote entrepreneurship in Italy, a country steeped in bureaucracy and lacking engines of innovation. Speaking at a conference convened by the Hoover Institute at Stanford, he details efforts to connect entrepreneurs with the resources and role models they need to be successful.
Entrepreneurship for Economic Growth - Hoover Conference
International development is increasingly dependent on the entrepreneurship of local citizens. But has the U.S.-caused global recession robbed American business and government of the ability to persuade other countries to partake of the capitalistic entrepreneurial model? In this panel discussion, part of a conference convened by the Hoover Institute at Stanford, experts discuss the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth worldwide.