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In A Great Place to Learn & Earn, industry veteran, David J. Waldron, presents a rare insider’s view of the for-profit, postsecondary career sector education industry and its impact on the future of America’s socioeconomic development. Waldron offers a simple yet inspiring template for professionals in career sector education seeking to achieve or sustain a high quality and profitable organiza...[Read More]

In this compelling book, strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R. Osberg describe how social entrepreneurs target systems that exist in a stable but unjust equilibrium and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. All of these leaders—call them disrupters, visionaries, or changemakers—develop, build, and scale their solutions in wa...[Read More]

From the author of Aftershock and The Work of Nations, his most important book to date—a myth-shattering breakdown of how the economic system that helped make America so strong is now failing us, and what it will take to fix it. Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of economics and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals how power and influence have created a new Ame...[Read More]

Cleantech Forums give you a glimpse of the future, get you out of your everyday silos, provide a different perspective, and help you find innovations of relevance to you that are in adjacent or altogether different industrial and technology areas. Cleantech Forum convene the game-changers from multiple sectors all in one place for three days, from 25+ countries, and from over 100 cities worldwide....[Read More]

We are all investors. We invest our time, our energy, our money. We invest every single day, as citizens, as consumers, as business people. At its core, investing involves connection, exchange, and mutual benefit. Lately, however, the primary, beneficial function of investing has been overshadowed by ever-more mechanized iterations of finance. We have created funds of funds, securitizations of sec...[Read More]

The 2015 APF Conference will look at some of the key levers that can protect and build the capacity of Africa’s human capital and talent — investments in better health systems to improve health indicators and ward off the threat of epidemics; investments in STEM and centers of excellence to nurture the innovators of tomorrow; investments in a skilled workforce that can address Africa’s infrastruct...[Read More]