Your Vote Counts?: How The Leadership Now Project Wants To Get Your Skin In The Game
Daniella Ballou-Aares and the organization she started with HBS alums have their sights set on gerrymandering, dark money in campaign finance, lobbying, and the numerous other influences that Leadership Now Project feel have steadily eroded both the quality of American democracy and public trust in it. By introducing reforms to electoral systems at every level […]
Dont Read the Comments: Katie Rosman Survival Guide to Journalism in the Social Media Age
Award-winning NY Times features reporter Katie Rosman writes about some of the most “now” issues that her paper will cover- scrums on Twitter, the fleeting fame of influencers, and flare-out fashion trends. But she’s also hosted “news clubs” and other social events designed to not only foster meaningful dialogue among those who consume news in […]
Matt Scanlan – Disruptive Fair Trade: How Naadam Is Getting the Cashmere Industry’s Goat
Matt Scanlan walked into Mongolia with $2.5M in cash and almost no plan besides buying cashmere directly from the herders scattered across the countryside. He chronicled his month-long stay in the Mongolian desert in a video that made his startup, Naadam, explode onto the world stage. Today, Naadam is disrupting the billion-dollar cashmere industry by […]
