Invest in Change My personal motto is “invest in the change you want to see in the world.” To be frank, it sprouted out of my frustration with the endless griping I found myself surrounded by back in 2009, when I was president of a global network for women and interacting with both those incredible …
When Faced With Times Like These, Turn to Impact Investing At present, in a time when truth and transparency seem ever elusive, when divisiveness appears a way of life, and social and environmental threats loom large, a bright spot has emerged. That bright spot – Impact Investing – curates both financial and social return, accepts …
Inclusion, Innovation, Infrastructure, Imagination For generations, America’s leadership, strength and entrepreneurial spirit have been the envy of the world. Through investments in our children and their education, in cutting-edge infrastructure, and in life-saving science and transformational technology, we built an economy, and a middle class, that were second to none. Yet, for years, the promise …
Mobility Trends Improving the Quality of Life for All Improving the quality of life and reducing the cost of living is an oft missed side effect of the pursuit of autonomous drive, clean inexpensive energy, and the electrification of transportation. These technology arcs are evolving roughly in parallel and their confluence will result in dramatic …
Reciprocity as My Guide Co-founding and helping to build Landed has brought into focus just how much I’m guided by a commitment to reciprocity: mutually corresponding exchanges of give and take. This penchant for mutual exchange is the basis for how I figure out how to do right by our team, first and foremost. In …
Working Scholars Transforms Higher Education and Unlocks Better Futures A college degree is key to unlocking economic opportunity, but it is a dream that’s out of reach for millions of students. Our higher education system, largely untouched by the technological innovations that have happened in nearly every facet of modern life, has left over 31 …
Security is About ACCESS and Not (Just) CONTROL Every business leader – regardless of industry or function – is always striving to improve employee productivity. In this hyper-competitive world, where there is literally no knowledge or information asymmetry, creativity and productivity are super critical. Technology-based distractions, social pressures, and outdated corporate practices, to name a …
Go Big, Be Bold, and Do Good We can only be game changers when we accept the responsibility to go big, be bold, and do good, because we’ve already let the clock run down on too many pressing issues. We’re still arguing about whether every American deserves a health care guarantee, as practically every other …
Up in the Air Broadly speaking, I believe that all technology should serve to advance humanity’s ability to improve our lives. For me, in my job as the president of the Oakland Athletics, this means that technology should serve to improve the City of Oakland and the people who call the East Bay home. As …
Old Values for a New Age In an era when the answer to an opposing viewpoint is to discredit, attack, or label the opposition as disingenuous – the need to advocate for civil discourse is paramount. As a former journalist, I am discouraged by the way we now manage dialogue and diversity of thought. And …
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