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March 5, 2019
Technology and Innovation
Innovating Africa Out of Poverty
Known for his ground-breaking business theories on “jobs to be done,” Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School has a new book on disruptive innovation, The Prosperity Paradox: How Innovation Can Lift Nations Out Of Poverty. I sat down with the book’s co-author, Efosa Ojomo, who leads the global prosperity research at the Clayton Christensen Institute, to learn how policymakers can apply the book’s findings in Africa.
November 11, 2010
Congresses and Parliaments
TWE Celebrates Veterans Day
History buffs know that Veterans Day began as a way to commemorate the armistice that ended the fighting in World War I.
October 25, 2011
Russia
Russia and U.S. National Interests: Why Should Americans Care?
Overview As the United States and Russia approach the twentieth anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union on December 25, 1991, the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and Int…
March 29, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
South African Court Convicts Nigerian Terrorist
A South African judge has sentenced Henry Okah, a Nigerian citizen, to twenty-four years in jail for twin car bombings in 2010. The bombings took place in Nigeria’s capital of Abuja on the fiftieth a…
April 30, 2015
Vietnam
The Vietnam War in Forty Quotes
Last month, I did a series of posts commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of U.S. combat troops in Vietnam on March 8, 1965. Today marks another significant date in the Vietnam War: t…
