www.ted.com In this prescient 2005 talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big...
In this educational video, Duke Professor Timur Kuran speaks with Nobel Laureate Douglass North. "Institutions and Economic Performance: A Conversation between Douglass North and Timur...
Early Modern England: Politics, Religion, and Society under the Tudors and Stuarts (HIST 251) Professor Wrightson begins by discussing how modern perceptions of the 'traditional'...
Financial Markets (ECON 252) Portfolio diversification is the most fundamental concept of risk management. The allocation of financial resources in stocks, bonds, riskless, assets, oil...
Effect of Institutions on Market Performance Douglas North, Nobel Laureate, Washington University June 30, 2003 In this 70 minute lecture, Dr. North talks about institutions...
Aprovecho Research Center has designed a super efficient wood fired cook stove for use in third world institutions including; schools, orphanages, and refugee camps. They...
The current financial crisis was caused by financial institutions themselves, not by their customers, Richard Kovacevich, MBA 67, chairman of Wells Fargo, told a Stanford...
