Fighting Poverty With Direct Cash Payments
The alumni-founded GiveDirectly has delivered over $500 million in cash to impoverished people, letting recipients decide how best to meet their needs.
The alumni-founded GiveDirectly has delivered over $500 million in cash to impoverished people, letting recipients decide how best to meet their needs.
Chuka Ikokwu (MBA '09) discusses his company, Divercity (divercity.io), and the positive correlation between bottom line and inclusion.
"All cultures... should be viewed as highly adaptable to changing circumstances. Political regimes can rest on many cultural frames."
"The potential politicization of the FASB will likely lead to lower-quality financial accounting standards and ... earnings.”
"Being a member of a union that bargains over your compensation enables you to share to some extent more in the profits of your firm."
Prof. Arnold Barnett said infection risk on planes is likely higher now than earlier in the pandemic.
"The pre-invasion Russian economy was based on energy exports supported by foreign direct investment. ... All of this is fading fast."
"As you get to more specialized knowledge, it becomes more and more important to have someone who really has a deep understanding."
"We all want to have impact. But very few economists are able to do anything that would actually affect patient lives."
"Increases in the crack spread [the difference between the cost of oil and the cost to refine it] recently has been just supply and demand."