Where is cybercrime really coming from? | Caleb Barlow

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Cybercrime netted a whopping $450 billion in profits last year, with 2 billion records lost or stolen worldwide. Security expert Caleb Barlow calls out the insufficiency of our current strategies to protect our data. His solution? We need to respond to cybercrime with the same collective effort as we apply to a health care crisis, sharing timely information on who is infected and how the disease is spreading. If we're not sharing, he says, then we're part of the problem.

SEIZE THE DAY: WHY 2017 SHOULD BE A YEAR OF EMBRACING THE PRESENT

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The time is now. Not next year, or six months from now, or at the conclusion of a five-year plan. Success won’t come with the next marketing conference, the new social channel around the corner, or the next piece of “game-changing” tech that’s just waiting to be unleashed on the world. Your future is written ... Read more

Buildings that blend nature and city | Jeanne Gang

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A skyscraper that channels the breeze ... a building that creates community around a hearth ... Jeanne Gang uses architecture to build relationships. In this engaging tour of her work, Gang invites us into buildings large and small, from a surprising local community center to a landmark Chicago skyscraper. "Through architecture, we can do much more than create buildings," she says. "We can help steady this planet we all share."

The ethical dilemma of designer babies | Paul Knoepfler

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Creating genetically modified people is no longer a science fiction fantasy; it's a likely future scenario. Biologist Paul Knoepfler estimates that within fifteen years, scientists could use the gene editing technology CRISPR to make certain "upgrades" to human embryos -- from altering physical appearances to eliminating the risk of auto-immune diseases. In this thought-provoking talk, Knoepfler readies us for the coming designer baby revolution and its very personal, and unforeseeable, consequences.

What is Med-Arb?

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When parties find themselves involved in a serious conflict, they often try to avoid the expense and hassle of litigation by turning to one of the two most common alternative dispute resolution processes: mediation or arbitration.
What’s the difference between mediation and arbitration? In a mediation process, a neutral, trained mediator works to help disputants come
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Trust Your Customers to Raise Their Hands: How to use non-gated content to more than double high-quality leads

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Instead of forcing form fills, see how Chris Keller’s team at Health Catalyst set their content free to increase shareability and lead quality while more than doubling leads during a three-quarter period.

Stick With the Basics: The Three Finger Close

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Stick With the Basics: The Three Finger Close
By Richard F. Libin, President, APB, rlibin@apb.cc, www.apb.cc
How many times have you excitedly tried the latest options, tricks, tips or “magic bullets” for sales and marketing only to fail? A strategy of constantly embracing the latest, newest or best, only delivers one thing: failure. It causes salespeople to try to win business the hard way. They overlook the three most important, basic steps in every sale. To close a deal, three things must happen.

How to have better political conversations | Robb Willer

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Robb Willer studies the forces that unite and divide us. As a social psychologist, he researches how moral values -- typically a source of division -- can also be used to bring people together. Willer shares compelling insights on how we might bridge the ideological divide and offers some intuitive advice on ways to be more persuasive when talking politics.

Kelman Seminar: Building a Diverse Boston: What Meaningful Inclusion Looks Like

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The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution presents:
Building a Diverse Boston:
What Meaningful Inclusion Looks Like
with
David Howse
Managing Director, ArtsEmerson
and
Timothy Phillips
CEO, Beyond Conflict
 
Monday, January 30, 2017
4:30 – 6:00 PM
CGIS South
Belfer Case Study Room, S-020
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
About the speakers:
David C. Howse is a recognized speaker and commentator on the arts and social integration.

Art made of the air we breathe | Emily Parsons-Lord

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Emily Parsons-Lord re-creates air from distinct moments in Earth's history -- from the clean, fresh-tasting air of the Carboniferous period to the soda-water air of the Great Dying to the heavy, toxic air of the future we're creating. By turning air into art, she invites us to know the invisible world around us. Breathe in the Earth's past and future in this imaginative, trippy talk.

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