Business & Economics


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How Our Social Networks Shape Our Lives
How Our Social Networks Shape Our Lives
Nicholas Christakis
December 31, 1969
00:54:31
Harvard professor of sociology and health care policy Nicholas Christakis discusses Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives.
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Postcards from China
James Fallows
January 25, 2009
01:27:47
James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic, who has been living in China for the last two years, discusses his book, Postcards from Tomorrow Square: Reports from China, with the founder of Harvard University's Global Equity Initiative, Dr. Lincoln Chen.
Change Haiti Can Believe In: Part I
Change Haiti Can Believe In: Part I
Paul Farmer
December 31, 1969
00:45:19
Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health; actor and activist Matt Damon, who recently visited Haiti to assist victims devastated by hurricanes; Massachusetts State Representative and Haitian-American Linda Dorcena Forry; and Brian Concannon, Jr., director of the Institute for Justice and Democr
Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow
Chip Conley
May 8, 2009
01:24:27
Chip Conley illustrates the model he has developed for relationship development based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid, as it related to addressing the higher needs of employees, audiences, and donors.
Hired Guns? / For Sale: Motherhood
Michael Sandel
October 11, 2009
00:55:10
Lecture Nine: "Hired Guns?" During the Civil War, men were conscripted to fight in the war -- but draftees were allowed to pay hired substitutes to fight in their place. Professor Sandel asks students -- was this policy an example of free-market exchange?
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Going for Broke: Middle Class Families
Elizabeth Warren
December 4, 2003
01:41:03
Elizabeth Warren anchors a panel on modern-day home economics.
Debating Same-Sex Marriage / The Good Life
Michael Sandel
November 29, 2009
00:55:10
Lecture Twenty-Two: "Debating Same-Sex Marriage" If principles of justice depend on the moral or intrinsic worth of the ends that rights serve, how does society deal with the fact that people hold different ideas and conceptions of what is good?
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China and the West: Divergence and Convergence
Niall Ferguson
October 10, 2007
01:05:51
Niall Ferguson examines the impact of China's economic strength on the international economy. Economic historian Niall Ferguson examines the impact of China's economic strength on the international economy.