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Keep Calm and Carry On: A Detroit Veteran Entrepreneur Continues to Go About Her Business
On a sunny Thursday afternoon, I meet Nefertiti Harris at her salon in the Cass Corridor, one of Detroit’s comeback neighborhoods. Harris is a tall, slender, smiling woman with long locs wound neatly around the crown of her head.
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Why We Need Agile Servant Leaders
Do world leaders have the big picture and a good understanding of the world we live in? A Q&A with Gilbert Probst from the World Economic Forum on his new book, “Tackling Complexity.”
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Tailoring Transparency: The Fashion Industry Provides a Glimpse Backstage
A quest for broader transparency is enveloping the fashion industry. And it’s mostly happening from the inside out.
Obsessions: Bringing the Spirit of Blogging into the Newsroom
NEW YORK – In his keynote address, Rosen returned to the definition of obsessions and provided six different ways of thinking about it.
Can Tech Entrepreneurship Be a Solution to Youth Unemployment in Egypt?
Following the Arab Spring, observers in Egypt have noticed that more and more young people are interested in entrepreneurship and self-employment. Tech entrepreneurship especially is gaining increasing institutional support. Some even see it as a means of mitigating the country’s record-setting unemployment that has largely afflicted Egypt’s youth (80 percent of those unemployed are under 30). “Egyptians have been facing drastic sociopolitical and economic changes,” says Dalia Mohamad Abd-Allah, a young entrepreneur from Cairo. “Since young people have played a role in that change, they are getting a sense of ownership of their own destiny.
State of Nature: In “Windfall,” Journalist McKenzie Funk Recasts the Conversation About Climate Change
Journalist McKenzie Funk is an adventurer, as much in his intellectual pursuits as in his taste for sport. He would rather climb a 26,000-foot mountain than hang with the press corps. So it is with his new book, “Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming,” which recounts myriad efforts to cash in on climate change. An absurd display of Canadian militarism first piqued Funk’s interest in the topic. In 2006, he found himself aboard the Canadian frigate HMCS Montréal as it surged toward the Northwest Passage.
Switzerland and the EU: The Heavy Cost of Isolation
In the few weeks since the immigration referendum, Switzerland has already gotten a taste of the costs that increasing isolation brings.
What the Roskilde Festival Sustainability Lab Learned from its Rock ’n’ Roll Hosts
Steven Tyler, Aerosmith’s infamous vocalist, once noted in a flash of rock wisdom, “We believed that anything worth doing was worth overdoing.” Indeed, the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle, with its enthralling appeal, embodies elements of excess and waste.
Fixing the Freelance Future: E-Work’s Brave New World Comes With Serious Drawbacks
Science writer Julian Taub has been freelancing for close to three years now. He has written for prominent publications, believes he has a strong network and understands what it takes to land work. Yet writing for the Web on a contingent basis hasn’t been easy. As Taub points out, he “would be afraid to do it as [his] sole source of income. Just because it’s very precarious: You don’t know what’s going to come up, there’s not many guarantees, and it’s really tough to be one step ahead” on a beat.
Gathering the New Global Economy’s Businesspeople for “The Next Billion”
Media companies turning to events for brand positioning—and a much-needed boost in revenue streams—is nothing new, but it has garnered some attention in the past weeks.