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Spending Money, Saving Lives

Karim Karti GE
May 30, 2014
Recent figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) are a stark reminder of the many challenges we face in global healthcare today: Over 6 million children under the age of 5 die each year; over 1,000 women die every day from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth; and over 36 million of the 57 million deaths every year are
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Combating Terrorism, Illicit Trafficking Needs More Agile, Non-Regulatory Tools

Nate Olson Stimson Center
May 29, 2014
A global economy has empowered criminals and terrorists on a global scale, with growing consequences for both governments and the private sector. But U.S. exporters, in particular, can find opportunity in adversity. They stand to make big gains by helping pioneer innovative public-private solutions that complement traditional laws and regulations for confronting these complex global dynamics.
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China—A Manufacturing Chimera?

Scott Andes Brookings Institution
Mark Muro Brookings
May 28, 2014
Most mainstream commentators share a short lineup of suspects when they discuss the decline of American manufacturing. Popular culprits range from automation to skills shortages to offshoring. Yet China has increasingly become public enemy No. 1.
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Bill Gates: Failing Up — When Development Goes Wrong… and Right

Bill Gates Microsoft Corporation
May 27, 2014
Bono calls the economist Jeffrey Sachs “the squeaky wheel that roars.” To me, Sachs is the Bono of economics—a guy with impressive intelligence, passion and powers of persuasion who is devoting his gifts to speaking up for the poorest people on the planet.
So I was not surprised that a journalist would find Sachs to be a compelling central character for a book—and a good way to draw readers into the potentially dry subject of international development.
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More From Less — Cleantech’s New Wave

Grant Allen Abb Technology Ventures
May 26, 2014
Cleantech is thriving. This may sound like the jawing of one of those clipboard yielding, sidewalk-canvassing, save-the-planet types, but the data are clear: As bruised and imperfect a descriptor as it is, cleantech not only has a heartbeat, it’s booming.
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You’ll Never Look at BATs the Same Way Again

May 23, 2014

BATs floating 1,000 feet above the earth could hold the secret to providing cheap, quickly installed power to off-grid consumers or disaster-stricken areas.

The BAT, short for “Buoyant Air Turbine,” is essentially a wind turbine in the sky. Developers across the country and around the world are testing various methods of sending these lightweight, high-altitude turbines aloft, using blimps, winged aircraft, and cylindrical balloons to reach sweet-spot heights where operators can harvest the most wind with the least resistance.

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The New Role Of Leaders

Greg Satell
May 22, 2014
When Alfred Sloan created the modern corporation at General Motors, he based it on the military.  The company was split into divisions, each with its own leadership. Information flowed up, orders went down and your rank determined your responsibility.
The model was designed to implement strategy from the top and move men and materiel efficiently.  It assumed that leaders had better understanding than those on the lower rungs.  Managers made plans and foot soldiers carried them out.
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Reforming U.S. Regulation to Achieve Better Science

May 21, 2014
A bipartisan initiative known as “21st Century Cures,” spearheaded by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is aiming to keep the U.S. at the forefront of biomedical innovation.
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Global Trade—Expanding the Future of Flight

John G Rice GE
May 20, 2014
In April 2014 for the first time in nearly 50 years a sitting U.S. president visited Malaysia to broaden economic ties in the region. As always, he flew there aboard the blue and white Boeing 747 the world knows as “Air Force One.”
This iconic symbol of American aviation is powered by four of GE Aviation’s CF6 turbofan engines. What some people may not realize is that the same engine family is now driving the expansion of one of Asia’s fastest growing airline companies.
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Shale Boom Built on ‘Junk’

Brock N Meeks Ideas Lab
May 19, 2014
The so-called “shale revolution” in the U.S. may be powered by innovation but it feasts on the financial equivalent of junk food, according to a recent report that questions boom’s the long-term sustainability.
Although share prices for most U.S. exploration and production (E&P) companies are at all-time highs, the elephant in the room is an industry financed by the high-yield debt market, better known as “junk bonds.” The S&P says that 75 of the 97 energy E&P companies it rates are below investment grade.
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