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Prof. Clair Brown, Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley Sep 04, 2020

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A Policy Index to Create a Sustainable, Shared-Prosperity Economy, and Buddhist Economics: an enlightened approach to the dismal science

Prof. Clair Brownis a Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. Clair has published research on many aspects of inequality and sustainability. Her book Buddhist Economics: An enlightened approach to the dismal science provides an economic framework that integrates global sustainability, shared prosperity, and care for the human spirit. Her research team created the Sustainable, Share-Prosperity Index (SSPI). Clair is a volunteer with 350 Bay Area Action, where she co-chairs the Legislative Committee to work on passing key climate justice bills in California.

Prof. Carol Gould, Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University Sep 03, 2020

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Towards a Theory of the Aesthetic Properties of Persons, Glamour as an Aesthetic Property of Persons, Objective Beauty, and Psychoanalysis, Imagination, and Imaginative Resistance

Prof. Carol Gould is a Professor of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University, where she teaches primarily Aesthetics, Philosophy of Psychiatry, and Ancient Greek Philosophy, areas in which she publishes widely. Many of her recent publications concern the relation between aesthetics, ethics, and personhood. She is currently completing a book manuscript on True Glamour, an unexplored topic in philosophy that stands at the intersection of Aesthetics, Ethics, and Philosophy of Psychiatry.

Prof. Brooks Holtom, Professor of Management at Georgetown University Sep 02, 2020

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A blueprint for change in Management Education, Turnover and Retention Research, and Better ways to predict who is going to quit.

Prof. Brooks Holtom is a Professor of Management at Georgetown University. His research focuses on how organizations acquire, develop, and retain human and social capital. He received the Human Resource Management Scholarly Achievement Award. He has performed research in or served as a consultant to many organizations.

Prof. George Markowsky, Professor of Computer Science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology Sep 01, 2020

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Crowdsourcing and homeland security, Top-level domain interceptor, The difficulty of defining metrics and Arrow's theorem, and modeling and battling COVID-19

Prof. George Markowsky is a Professor and former Chair of Computer Science at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, where he runs the Cyber Society Lab. He was Chair and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maine, a Visiting Scholar at the Rochester Institute of Technology, a Visiting Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Manager of Special Projects in the Computer Science Department at IBM's Watson Research Center. His research interests are theoretical methods in computer science and the impact of computers on society.

Prof. Jeanne Milliken Bonds, Professor of the Practice at the University of North Carolina Aug 31, 2020

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Whole Community Health, Pilot project by Kenan Charitable Trust in two North Carolina counties - 6 interconnected pillars of opportunity: Economic stability, Education, Healthy food, High-quality healthcare, Social integration, and safe physical environment.

Prof. Jeanne Milliken Bonds is a Professor of the Practice, Impact Investment, and Sustainable Finance at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Jeanne is a former Leader in Regional Community Development for the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. In her previous role, she provided leadership for strategic stakeholder collaboration and community-level solutions, focusing on low- and moderate-income and underserved communities in support of the Federal Reserve System’s Community Development function.

Prof. Eswaran Subrahmanian, Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon University Aug 30, 2020

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Design Theory: A foundation of a new paradigm for design science and engineering, Shared Memory in Design: A Unifying Theme for Research and Practice, Dialogues, Diversity, and Design

Prof. Eswaran Subrahmanian is a Research Professor in the Engineering Research Accelerator and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. His research in design was inspired by the tradition of the study of Design at CMU since the early 1970s. His research interests are Design theory, Collaborative design information systems, design education, design and society, and mathematical foundation for information modeling for design. He is the Co-chair of the Special Interest Group of Design Theory of the Design Society, Distinguished Scientist of the ACM, and Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Dr. Charles Harry, Associate Research Professor at the University of Maryland Aug 29, 2020

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Human and technical cyber risks, Prioritizing strategic risks, Effect-centric approach to risk in nuclear power plants, A systems approach to quantifying and managing risk in critical infrastructure.

Dr. Charles Harry who is the director of operations at the Maryland Global Initiative in Cybersecurity (MaGIC), an associate research professor in the School of Public Policy, at the University of Maryland and a senior research associate at the Center for International Security Studies at Maryland. He is also part of the US Chamber of Commerce’s Cyber Advisory Panel.

Prof. Regina Herzlinger, Professor at Harvard Business School Aug 28, 2020

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The scale of the healthcare problem, A suggestion for a bipartisan solution, Innovating in Healthcare, and the SEC for the healthcare system

Prof. Regina Herzlinger is a professor at Harvard Business School. She is the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and the first to serve on many corporate health care/medical technology boards. Her upcoming book, Innovating In Health Care, will be published in the fall of 2020.

Prof Michael Barnett, Professor of Management at Rutgers Business School Aug 27, 2020

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The Rise and Stall of stakeholder influence: How the digital age limits social control and Designing CSR Initiatives for Greater Social Impact

Prof Michael L. Barnett is Professor of Management & Global Business at Rutgers Business School and Academic Director of the Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation. Mike currently serves as an International Research Fellow of the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Social Innovations Group at EGADE Business School in Mexico, Affiliate Visiting Scholar at the Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma, and Fellow of the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers University.

Prof. Diana Thomas, Professor of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy at West Point Aug 26, 2020

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Weighing the evidence from clinical trials and faulty belief systems in obesity control, errors in self-reporting of energy balance, dynamic model for predicting obesity, machine learning to predict injuries in combat training, the Vitruvian Man (Woman), and how many steps per day to stay fit.

Prof. Diana Thomas is a professor of mathematical sciences at the United States Military Academy at West Point. She holds joint research appointments at Columbia University, Obesity Research Center, and the Pennington Biomedical Research Center and serves on the editorial board for the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, PloS One, and Nutrition and Diabetes. She has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles in exercise, fitness, nutrition, and body weight regulation.

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