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...Thomas C. Schelling, a 2005 Nobel-prize-winning economist and distinguished university professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, wrote “Micromotives” in the late seventies to explain collective human behavior. The book, comparable to Malcolm Gladwell’s recent work “The Tipping Point,” was revolutionary at the time and was praised accordingly...
...proxies like its oil behemoth, Gazprom, to acquire media outlets for years. Examples of this include the NPV television network and Izvestia, a leading newspaper. Anna wrote for the Novaya Gazeta, which is one of the last bastions of dissent in Putin’s Russia, partly owned by Nobel Peace Prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev...
...philanthropy could achieve on its own. In doing so, he enabled women to propel themselves onto tracks of stability within the confines of their own culture. Last week, for these efforts, Yunus and Grameen Bank, which he founded to institutionalize the method he pioneered in Jobra, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize...
Yunus’ strategy of mutual benefit sets him apart from the Nobel laureates before him who labored to address poverty. He has been both praised and criticized for finding a method that not only helps the poor but also allows the financial markets to tap into the 86 percent of the globe’s population that has had little or no access to bank loans. Yunus’ prize honors not just his specific strategy, however, but also his impulse to redefine how we look at the problem of global poverty. Microfinance demonstrates that what matters...
...starts doing cooking segments on the evening news. That and some insightful segments on colon cancer while people are eating dinner. I think we need to see more of her colon.RR: Why are you coming to Harvard to do this show? PM: I want to challenge Bono for the Nobel peace prize. I don’t really care about the cause I just care about enough people knowing I’m doing stuff for causes. RR: What do you think about Harvard students? PM: Some of my friends are Harvard students. I think they are people...