Brookings Institution

No. 247 – Tuesday Reads

Apr 21, 2020

Notes

andre perry, Brookings Institution, Business of Fashion, chamath palihapitiya, coronavirus, Jack Dorsey, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, social capital hedosophia

Know Your Price: Black Property Devaluation In A Nation Built With Our Hands And On Our Backs – I recently shared with a friend why I believed diversity and inclusion efforts at corporations were bullshit. I already belong here. I’m not interested in incremental efforts to try and make me more comfortable. I want to…
No. 70: President Obama is Going to Kenya: Dumb or Nah?

May 19, 2015

Africa

Africa, Africa Watcher, Barack Obama, Brookings Institution, Gayle Smith, Global Entrepreneurship Summit, Harvard University, Ireland, John F. Kennedy, Kenya, Robert Rotberg, security, US AID, Witney Schneidman

Witney Schneidman, Fellow at the Brookings Institution, wrote this rebuttal of Harvard professor Robert Rotberg’s Politico piece which panned President Obama’s upcoming trip to the country for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit as a bad idea. Quick thoughts: I’m not sure President Obama tacking on a trip to Ethiopia would go over well with Africa watchers,…