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Receiving the 2011 CASE Award for Enterprising Social Innovation

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As part of receiving the ESI Award, I was thrilled to deliver the 2011 Annual ESI Lecture and to meet the Fuqua School’s community. I hope that in my lecture, I convince my listeners, especially students, that they don’t need technology degrees to succeed in high tech.

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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Richard Feynman once tried to reduce an advanced physics concept to a freshman lecture. The first lecture I heard as a freshman at Caltech was delivered by Feynman on the topic of liquid helium three, and I was certain he did understand the topic! That’s the Caltech advantage!

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Public speaking for change

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on choosing to be a nonprofit or a for-profit, based on my For Love or Lucre SSIR article 9/26 Kicking off the Stanford Social Entrepreneurship Lecture Series 10/1 Speaking at the Disability Rights Advocates board meeting 10/5 Duke Fuqua MBA High Tech Club Panel (Cloud Computing /Social Entrepreneurship panels) 10/5 Duke CASE Award for Enterprising (..)

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Day at University of Washington

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Leaders to Legends Breakfast Lecture Series

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Day at University of Washington

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Leaders to Legends Breakfast Lecture Series

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New Benetech board member, Robert Wexler

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Rob is also a lecturer at Stanford Law School where he teaches the Law of Nonprofit Organizations. He’s a principal at Adler & Colvin, San Francisco's top law firm specializing in nonprofit law. His practice focuses on tax and corporate matters for nonprofits and their donors.

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The Road to Accessibility without Borders: Celebrating the One-Year Anniversary of the Marrakesh Treaty

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There are also multiple issues that are yet to be negotiated, such as the commercial availability condition, that is, the question of whether the ability to exercise an exception or limitation to prepare a copy of a book in specialized format for those with print disabilities should depend on whether the material was commercially available in that (..)