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Jed Emerson: Steady Returns With Social Impact

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Tags: impact investing blended value Jed Emerson REDF.

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Signals - Stoplights for student success

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Signals blends two key ideas: The patterns of student failure can be spotted early: much earlier than existing systems relying on failing midterms! I took my first full pattern recognition course at Purdue long ago and far away (my brother Bill is a Boilermaker/Purdue alum, too).

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Receiving the 2011 CASE Award for Enterprising Social Innovation

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The ESI Award recognizes outstanding individuals and organizations whose innovations blend methods from the worlds of business and philanthropy, and that challenge the status quo to create sustainable social value with a potential for large-scale impact.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

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The deep reservoir of pro bono resources provides elasticity for an enterprising and agile counsel who can make the choices of which issues to handle solely inside, mainly with outside counsel, or blended.

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Council on Foundations

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It was very interesting, hearing a blend of corporate positioning from Microsoft and Google combined with real interest in social issues. I was part of a panel that included Orlando Ayala of Microsoft, Linda Segre of Google.org, Sally Osberg of the Skoll Foundation and was moderated by Akhtar Badshah of Microsoft.

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Seeing Beyond Sight

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Tony's talk blended photographs from his book with key questions that we should be asking ourselves. , I was fascinated to learn about the paradox of blind kids taking pictures. Full disclosure: I bought the book a month ago and it sits on the meeting table in my office, so you might guess I ended up converted to Tony's point of view.

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The Many Davos

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What blend of the Davos cocktail will you have is a big challenge. In a past year, I got to spend an hour chatting with David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate and then-president of Caltech, my alma mater. At an alumni event, I would get 60 seconds! Conclusion You can't do it all, as I said above. The hardest decisions to make are what to not do.

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