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Mike Johns: Healthcare's New Home: Everywhere

Mike Johns University Of Michigan
September 25, 2014
”I’ve never had but one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it,” said Jeanne Calment, who died of natural causes at age 122 as the oldest person on record in 1997.
 

While you can argue the actual number of wrinkles on her body, it’s more interesting to consider how Calment lived so far beyond average life expectancy when the vast majority of human lives are cut short by disease.
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Jennifer McNelly: Women in Manufacturing — An Untapped Resource

Jennifer Mcnelly The Manufacturing Institute
September 18, 2014
Janae Owens, an Environment, Health and Safety Manager at GE, is an example of an exceptional leader. Exceptional, in part, because she overcame the odds of being a woman in manufacturing and becoming the go-to EHS Specialist with GE On-site Machining and Repairs. Because of her great work, Janae was honored as a STEP Award Honoree in 2014.
 
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Margareta Drzeniek: Why U.S. Competitiveness Is on the Rise

Margareta Drzeniek World Economic Forum
September 11, 2014
For an economist whose job it is to measure countries’ success (or otherwise) in laying the foundations for long-term prosperity, the concept of green shoots for me takes on a different meaning to those most often reported in the press as harbingers of better times.
 

Increases in gross domestic product, falls in joblessness and upticks in new housing starts are of course good and welcome, but taken alone these indicators offer us little insight into how the U.S. economy will be doing in five or ten years’ time.
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Stacey Jarrett Wagner: Change May be Hard, but Failure Stinks

Stacey Jarrett Wagner The Jarrettwagner Group
September 10, 2014
Slater Mill, built in 1793 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, is considered the starting point of America’s Industrial Revolution. When Slater substituted water power for human labor, manufacturing output, distribution and profits improved — and the modern manufacturing business model was ignited.
 
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Visual Control of Big Data

Mit News
August 29, 2014

Data-visualization tool identifies sources of aberrant results and recomputes visualizations without them.

In the age of Big Data, visualization tools are vital. With a single glance at a graphic display, a human being can recognize patterns that a computer might fail to find even after hours of analysis.

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Companies Mobilizing Against Trade Secret Theft — Q&A with Pamela Passman of CREATe

Pamela Passman Create Org
August 14, 2014
There was a time when the theft of a trade secret elicited a seemingly counterproductive response from the corporate victim — keeping the theft a secret. On one level, such a reaction was understandable, given the risk that going public about the compromise of a key piece of intellectual property (IP) could cause further harm to the bottom line.
 
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Lorenzo Simonelli: Fostering a More Sustainable Africa

Lorenzo Simonelli GE
August 12, 2014
Following the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit last week, all eyes are turned to Africa, one of the world’s fastest-growing regions. As economic reports predict acceleration in growth, the sustainability of this growth is becoming an increasingly pressing issue.
 
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Todd Moss and Beth Schwanke: Closing Africa’s Energy Poverty Gap

Todd Moss Center For Global Development
Beth Schwanke Center For Global Development
August 08, 2014
Two out of three people in Sub-Saharan Africa—that’s nearly 600 million people—live today without access to electricity. As incomes and economies grow in Africa, and they are both growing quickly, this will generate massive demand for power access. This is a huge opportunity for Africans to pull themselves out of poverty and a substantial business opportunity that the United States can’t afford to ignore. And right now is the moment to do something about it.
 
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America’s Tentative Embrace of Africa as Investment Partner

August 07, 2014
Africa is ascendant, but when will America recognize it?
 

Africa’s economic outlook as a whole presents one of the most promising growth stories of anywhere in the world, yet the U.S. remains under-invested in the continent relative to other regions. When you read a headline about Africa in the paper, it’s still more likely to talk about conflict or disease than opportunity.
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Powering Africa: Q&A with Andrew M. Herscowitz

Andrew M Herscowitz Power Africa
August 06, 2014
A little over a year after President Obama announced the initiative to help “plug Africa into the grid of the global economy” by doubling the number of people on the continent with access to electricity, Power Africa is already a high-voltage operation.
 
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