Monthly Archives: December 2023

The World is a Mess, and the Mess is Reflected on University Campuses

The last few months, I have started my days, as usual, with a morning paper “partitioned” in a way that my wife gets the first page and I get the rest. The other day, shortly after we started reading, I … Continue reading

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COP28 Conclusions

(Source: Travis Leery on Unsplash via The Bulletin: Historic’ or ‘weak’? Parsing the climate agreement from COP28) COP28 is over (officially December 12th, in practice, December 13th). Most modes of communication are focused on one sentence in the concluding document … Continue reading

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COP28

(Source: Cartoons by Josh) I had two objectives with this blog. One was to start summarizing COP28, which started on November 30th and is scheduled to close today. The second objective was to strongly encourage my students to follow up … Continue reading

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My Full-Scale Global Focus

(Source: Ismail Sadiron/EyeEm/Getty Images via Harvard Business Review) Things are happening around each one of us on all scales; we better pay attention. Two weeks ago (November 21st), I started a series of blogs focused on what I can do … Continue reading

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