Session 1 Panels


Design Thinking: A New Type of Leadership
  • Kelly, Tom, The Art of Innovation (Broadway Business, January 2001)
  • Meadows, Donella, Thinking in Systems (Chelsea Green, December 2008)
  • Sterling, Bruce, Shaping Things (MIT, September 2005)


Personalized Medicine: Prescribing You the Right Drugs Based on Your Genes


The Energy, Climate, Food, and Water Nexus: Challenges for a Transition to Sustainability


Musical Teleportation: Making Music Together around the Globe


Myths and Misperceptions in Negotiation (or What We Know - Ain't So!)
  • Babcock, L., and Laschever, S, Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide (Princeton UP, 2003)
  • Bazerman, M. H. and Neale, M.A., Negotiating Rationality, (Free Press, 1992)
  • Cialdini, Robert, Influence: Science and Practice, ( Harper Collins, 2008)


One Year In: An Appraisal of Obama's Foreign Policy


New Age Thinking: Living Longer, Living Better


Finders Keepers: Recruiting, Preparing, and Retaining the Best Teachers for New York City Schools


International Literature and Global Relations







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