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Thursday 5 May 2016
12:30

Duncan Clark

Duncan Clark

This book presents an engrossing and eye-opening insider’s account of how a teacher built one of the most valuable companies in the world – rivalling Walmart, Amazon, and eBay – and forever changed our global economy.

In just a decade and half, Jack Ma, a man who rose from humble beginnings and started his career as an English teacher, founded and built Alibaba into the second largest Internet company in the world. The company’s $25 billion IPO in 2014 was the world’s largest, valuing the company more than Facebook or Coca Cola.

Granted unprecedented access to a wealth of new material including exclusive interviews, Clark draws on his own first-hand experience of key figures integral to Alibaba’s rise to create an authoritative, compelling narrative account of how Alibaba and its charismatic creator have transformed the way that Chinese exercise their new found economic freedom.

Thursday 19 May 2016
12:30

The Female Lead

with Edwina Dunn and Christiane Amanpour

Founded by data science entrepreneur, Edwina Dunn, The Female Lead is a non-profit project that celebrates women’s achievement, endeavour and diversity. Aiming to make women’s stories more visible, and to provide positive role models for future generations, The Female Lead works on three platforms: the website, a book of remarkable women to be launched in Autumn 2016 and an outreach programme targeted at young women.

Through workshops in schools, colleges and youth organisations The Female Lead speaks directly to young women about confidence, ambition and alternative role models to those ever-present in popular culture. 

Wednesday 2 November 2016
12:30

Rana Foroohar

Assisting Managing Editor at TIME and CNN's Global Economic Analyst

Is Wall Street bad for American business? According to Rana Foroohar, eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned—and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. She argues that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage crisis, and that the misguided financial practices and philosophies that nearly toppled the global financial system have come to infiltrate all American businesses, putting us on a collision course for another cataclysmic meltdown.

Drawing on in-depth reporting and exclusive interviews at the highest rungs of Wall Street and Washington, Rana Foroohar shows how the “financialization of America”— the trend by which finance and its way of thinking have come to reign supreme—is perpetuating Wall Street’s reign over Main Street, widening the gap between rich and poor, and threatening the future of the American Dream.

Tuesday 13 September 2016

Michael Platt

Michael L. Platt, PhD.

Tuesday 28 June 2016

Piot and Scardino

Director and Chairman, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has been one of the world’s pre-eminent centres for global health research, treatment and education for more than a century. Founded in 1899 by Sir Patrick Manson, the School’s current home was built by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1921 and intended to develop into a London-based institution that would lead the world in the promotion of public health and curing tropical diseases. From its earliest days its heart has been at the forefront of the fight against infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, Ebola, and smallpox.

Tuesday 14 June 2016

Jochen Zeitz

Jochen Zeitz: Co-Founder and Co-Chair of The B Team and Founder of the Zeitz Foundation

Tuesday 7 June 2016

100 Year Life

Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott

In their new book, Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott outline the challenges and intelligent choices that all of us, of any age, need to make in order to turn greater life expectancy into a gift and not a curse. This is not an issue for when we are old but an urgent and imminent one. Uniquely drawing on the authors’ expertise in economics, psychology and sociology, Gratton and Scott offer a broad-ranging analysis and a raft of solutions covering what to do with your finances, your education, your career and your relationships to succeed in creating a fulfilling 100-year life.

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