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...social sector??€”which includes non-profit and non-governmental organizations—has gone through a dramatic revolution over the last 25 years, growing two to three times as quickly in the United States as other industries, William Drayton ’65 told a packed audience at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum last Friday. Drayton, a Rhodes Scholar, former Kennedy School professor, and Harvard Law School alum, spoke about Ashoka, an organization he founded in 1980. Ashoka—a social entrepreneurship group—is Drayton’s answer to close...
...representatives in Congress protest that increases in federal investments in energy RD&D are not in the cards given current budget realities. But a doubling of those investments could be funded with an increase of two cents per gallon in the federal gasoline tax. As for the private sector??€™s investments in developing and deploying low- and no-carbon dioxide energy options, these will start to rise significantly only when there is a marketplace incentive for such action, either in the form of a carbon tax or its practical equivalent in the form of economy-wide emissions caps...
...spending on energy-technology RD&D totals only $5-6 billion per year, less than one percent of what we spend as a nation for electricity and fuels. The situation in other industrialized countries is no better, and in developing countries it is worse. Around the world, the energy sector??€™s ratio of RD&D investments to total revenues is far lower than for any other high-tech sector of the economy. These investments will need to be boosted at least two- to three-fold if we are to be able to meet the energy-climate challenge...
It’s even starting to be noticed in the information technology (IT) private sector??€”and on university networks like our own. Last week IT Services at Pennsylvania State University issued an announcement imploring students to switch from Internet Explorer to a browser like Firefox—a request they made not on the basis of the comparative ease of use of the browsers or on the slick new features, but rather because of their relative security levels. Microsoft’s browser has been the object of a large number of security vulnerabilities over the past...
Wright-Swadel notes that firms’ participation in the official OCS recruiting process was down 40 percent this year from the level three years ago. And some of the firms—particularly in the high-tech and dot-com sector??€”that were staples in the recruiting process several years ago no longer exist...