Kelman Seminar: The Role Dignity Must Play in Post-Election Healing

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The Herbert C. Kelman Seminar on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution is pleased to present:
The Role Dignity Must Play in Post-Election Healing
with
Donna Hicks
Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
Harvard University
 
Monday, November 21, 2016
4:00 – 5:30 PM
CGIS North
Bowie Vernon Room, K-262
1737 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
About the speaker:
Donna Hicks is an Associate at the Weatherhead Center for

The Four Errors to Avoid when Putting Together Your Resume (Part Three)

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The Four Errors to Avoid when Putting Together Your Resume (Part Three)
By Mike Brooks, www.MrInsideSales.com 
How many resumes do you think an HR Director or hiring manager receives for each job posting they advertise for?  Would you guess twenty?  Thirty?  I hate to break it to you, but if it is a sales position you had better revise your estimate way up.  Try over seventy or eighty – and that is just in the first couple of days of posting the job!  

4 ways to build a human company in the age of machines | Tim Leberecht

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In the face of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we need a new radical humanism, says Tim Leberecht. For the self-described "business romantic," this means designing organizations and workplaces that celebrate authenticity instead of efficiency and questions instead of answers. Leberecht proposes four (admittedly subjective) principles for building beautiful organizations.

Your company's data could end world hunger | Mallory Soldner

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Your company might have donated money to help solve humanitarian problems, but you could have something even more useful to offer: your data. Mallory Soldner shows us how private sector companies can help make real progress on big problems -- from the refugee crisis to world hunger -- by donating untapped data and decision scientists. What might your company be able to contribute?

How to Stop Losing Deals at the Front End of the Sales Funnel

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How to Stop Losing Deals at the Front End of the Sales Funnel 
What if I told you that your B2B sales organization was losing lots of good sales opportunities before they even had come in the door? Many B2B sales teams focus on getting more sales leads and closing deals, but they don’t pay enough attention to what happens with the new inbound sales leads that are already making contact with the company. This is a big mistake that is surprisingly costly, but also surprisingly easy to fix! The answer: your company needs to get better at qualifying your inbound sales leads. 

How America's public schools keep kids in poverty | Kandice Sumner

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Why should a good education be exclusive to rich kids? Schools in low-income neighborhoods across the US, specifically in communities of color, lack the resources that are standard at wealthier schools -- things like musical instruments, new books, healthy school lunches and soccer fields -- and this has a real impact on the potential of students. Kandice Sumner sees the disparity every day in her classroom in Boston. In this inspiring talk, she asks us to face facts -- and change them.

Case Study: Faster time to revenue with easy to deploy Asigra Converged Data Protection Appliance for Managed Service Providers

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Cloud-based backup and recovery is the #1 cloud service for new revenue growth potential for Managed Services Providers (MSP’s). However, many MSP’s struggling with finding a way to offer this solution to their customers in a simple, quick and cost effective way due to the complex nature of the infrastructure needed for this offering.

Your smartphone is a civil rights issue | Christopher Soghoian

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The smartphone you use reflects more than just personal taste ... it could determine how closely you can be tracked, too. Privacy expert Christopher Soghoian details a glaring difference between the encryption used on Apple and Android devices and urges us to pay attention to a growing digital security divide. "If the only people who can protect themselves from the gaze of the government are the rich and powerful, that's a problem," he says. "It's not just a cybersecurity problem -- it's a civil rights problem."

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