A precise, three-word address for every place on earth | Chris Sheldrick

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With what3words, Chris Sheldrick and his team have divided the entire planet into three-meter squares and assigned each a unique, three-word identifier, like famous.splice.writers or blocks.evenly.breed, giving a precise address to the billions of people worldwide who don't have one. In this quick talk about a big idea, Sheldrick explains the economic and political implications of giving everyone an accurate address -- from building infrastructure to sending aid to disaster zones to delivering hot pizza.

Portraits that transform people into whatever they want to be | Uldus Bakhtiozina

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With her gorgeous, haunting photographs, artist Uldus Bakhtiozina documents dreams, working with daily life as she imagines it could be. She creates everything in her work by hand -- from costumes to stages -- without digital manipulation, bringing us images from the land of escapism, where anyone can become something else.

Customer-First Marketing: The customer is always right … but not always right for your company

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Customer feedback can be extremely valuable. It is, essentially, business intelligence direct from the person who most impacts your company’s success. However, just because customer feedback CAN be valuable, that doesn’t mean it’s always the case. Read on for tips to help you separate the signal from the noise.

Negotiation Training: What’s Special About Technology Negotiations?

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Executives are increasingly faced with the task of negotiating in a realm that many know little about: technology.
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Understanding Political Polarization in the US

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The Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School is pleased to present:
Understanding Political Polarization in the US
with
Susan Podziba
Podziba Policy Mediation
Liz McClintock
CMPartners
 
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Wasserstein Hall, Room 2009
Harvard Law School
1585 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
Free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided.
About the Talk:
The fever pitch of US political polarization is unrelenting. Susan

The new age of corporate monopolies | Margrethe Vestager

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Margrethe Vestager wants to keep European markets competitive -- which is why, on behalf of the EU, she's fined Google $2.8 billion for breaching antitrust rules, asked Apple for $15.3 billion in back taxes and investigated a range of companies, from Gazprom to Fiat, for anti-competitive practices. In an important talk about the state of the global business, she explains why markets need clear rules -- and how even the most innovative companies can become a problem when they become too dominant.

SEEK OUT AND EMPOWER MOMENTS OF CONNECTION

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Chelsea Handler and Mary McCormack are angry about the state of the country, and they’re not alone. If you’re familiar with Ms. Handler’s work, you may be expecting a very boisterous, well-informed, and humorous monolog on the subject. You would be wrong in that assumption, but only about the boisterous part. Handler and McCormack’s essay ... Read more

We can hack our immune cells to fight cancer | Elizabeth Wayne

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After decades of research and billions spent in clinical trials, we still have a problem with cancer drug delivery, says biomedical engineer Elizabeth Wayne. Chemotherapy kills cancer -- but it kills the rest of your body, too. Instead of using human design to fight cancer, why not use nature's? In this quick talk, Wayne explains how her lab is creating nanoparticle treatments that bind to immune cells, your body's first responders, to precisely target cancer cells without damaging healthy ones.

What's hidden under the Greenland ice sheet? | Kristin Poinar

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The Greenland ice sheet is massive, mysterious -- and melting. Using advanced technology, scientists are revealing its secrets for the first time, and what they've found is amazing: hidden under the ice sheet is a vast aquifer that holds a Lake Tahoe-sized volume of water from the summer melt. Does this water stay there, or does it find its way out to the ocean and contribute to global sea level rise? Join glaciologist Kristin Poinar for a trip to this frozen, forgotten land to find out.

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