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Sal Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy, a not-for-profit organization with a
mission to provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Khan Academy’s
self-pacing software and instructional materials stand as the world’s most-used library
of web-based educational videos: more than 3,000 offerings on their YouTube channel,
used by some 4.2 million students per month. A former hedge fund analyst with degrees
from MIT and Harvard, Khan is the author of The One World School House: Education
Reimagined, published in 2012 to immediate accolades from innovators as varied as
George Lucas and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammed Yunus. In the opinion of Microsoft’s
founder Bill Gates, “Sal Khan’s vision and energy for how technology could fundamentally
transform education is contagious. He’s a true pioneer in integrating technology and
learning.”
Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013 7 p.m.
James Carville is perhaps America’s best-known political consultant, not least for
his role in helping William Jefferson Clinton win the U.S. presidency in 1992. His
long list of electoral successes includes wins in gubernatorial and senatorial races
in the United States, as well as global runs that include leading Israeli prime minister
Ehud Barak to his 1999 victory. A best-selling author, Carville’s titles include All’s
Fair: Love, War, and Running for President (with wife Mary Matalin); 40 More Years:
How the Democrats will Rule the Next Generation (2009) and his most recent New York
Times best seller, It’s the Middle Class, Stupid!, co-authored with Stan Greenberg,
with whom he founded Democracy Corps, an independent polling nonprofit. A frequent
CNN political commentator and contributor, Carville also serves as a Professor of
Practice at Tulane University in New Orleans.
Monday, Nov. 18, 2013 7 p.m.
Richard Rumelt maintains a multifaceted career in teaching, research and consulting,
with the focus on competitive advantage and strategy, industry dynamics, and overall
management. The Harry and Elsa Kunin Professor of Business and Society at UCLA Anderson
School of Management, he was voted one of the world’s Top 50 Business Thinkers by
the Thinkers50 program, sponsored by the Harvard Business Review. He is the author
of Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters, a finalist for the
2011 Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. He was on the
faculty of Harvard Business School and INSEAD, The Business School for the World,
where he headed the Corporate Renewal Initiative. He was a founding member and served
as president of the Strategic Management Society, which represents some 3,000 members
from more than 80 countries.
Monday, Jan. 13, 2014 7 p.m.
Michael M. Crow, the sixteenth president of Arizona State University, is guiding the
transformation of ASU into one of the nation’s leading public metropolitan research
universities, combining academic excellence, inclusiveness to a broad demographic,
and maximum societal impact — a model he designed known as the “New American University.”
Under his leadership, ASU established major transdisciplinary research initiatives
and witnessed an unprecedented academic infrastructure expansion, the tripling of
research expenditures, and the attainment of record levels of diversity. Crow was
previously executive vice provost of Columbia University. An adviser to the U.S. departments
of state, commerce, and energy on matters of science and technology policy, he is
a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National
Academy of Public Administration, and has published on science and technology policy
and the design of knowledge enterprises.
Monday, March 10, 2014 7 p.m.
