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February 15, 2010

Global Banking After the Financial Crisis: Alberto J. Verme '84

Brian Hindo MBA '10

Alberto J. Verme '84, Citi's co-CEO of Europe, Middle East and Africa, discusses growth in emerging markets, positive signs for an economic recovery, and why banks should get "back to basics."

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February 15, 2010

Why Was the Financial Crisis Less Enduring in Japan and Other Countries...This Time Around?

Adrian Almazan MBA '10
Why Was the Financial Crisis Less Enduring in Japan and Other Countries...This Time Around?

Panelists explore the drivers that allowed Japan and other countries to withstand the recent financial crisis better than their American and European counterparts.

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February 15, 2010

Marketing to the Bottom of the Pyramid: A 'Four Ps' Approach

Brian Hindo MBA '10

Professor Gita Johar talks about the state of social enterprises and how modern marketing techniques can help deliver goods and services more effectively to the world's poorest people.

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January 15, 2010

The Business of Health in Emerging Markets

Lauren Frasca MBA '10

A panel of experts debates the risks, rewards, challenges and opportunities of bringing healthcare to emerging markets at the sixth annual CBS Healthcare conference, "New Healthcare Paradigm: Technology, Value and Emergence."

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December 15, 2009

African Aid and Economic Development: The Role of the Local Business Sector

Lauren Frasca MBA '10
African Aid and Economic Development: The Role of the Local Business Sector

Dean Glenn Hubbard and a panel of experts discuss African aid and economic development, as well as Hubbard's new book, The Aid Trap, which calls for a Marshall-plan like program to spur growth on the continent.

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December 15, 2009

Bringing Movies to the Masses: The CinePop Model

Lauren Frasca MBA '10
Bringing Movies to the Masses: The CinePop Model

At the 2009 Social Enterprise Conference, social entrepreneur Ariel Zylbersztejn shares how he turned his love of movies into a for-profit social enterprise that brings movies--along with a host of social services--to suburban Mexico.

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December 15, 2009

International Investing with the Oracle of Omaha

Adrian Almazan MBA '10
International Investing with the Oracle of Omaha

Warren Buffett shares his international investing experiences and insights to a group of Columbia Business School students visiting him at Berkshire Hathaway headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska.

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December 15, 2009

The Hong Kong Exchange: A Small Player in China's Great Economic Reform

James Walsh MBA '10

Lawrence Fok '76, executive vice president of the Hong Kong Exchange, discusses the role of the Hong Kong Exchange in China's economic rise over the past fifteen years at the Sir Gordon Wu Distinguished Speaker Forum.

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November 15, 2009

Development in the Philippines

James Walsh MBA '10

International development leaders from the Ayala Foundation and PinoyME discuss their initiatives in the Philippines with the CBS International Development Club.

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