Eduardo Saverin, Facebook Cofounder
Eduardo Luiz Saverin was born in São Paulo, Brazil, to a wealthy Jewish Brazilian family. In 1993, the family immigrated to the U.S., settling in Miami. Saverin attended Harvard University, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics. During his junior year at Harvard, Saverin met fellow Harvard undergraduate, Mark Zuckerberg. Noting the lack of a dedicated social networking website […]
Jeff Koons Partners With Kiehl’s For Missing & Exploited Children
Earlier this year Jeff Koons’s Seated Ballerina, a large-scale public art installation, rose into the air outside the Rockefeller Center in New York. The inflatable nylon sculpture stood 45 feet high and aimed to raise funds and awareness around missing children. Often referencing historical imagery and found objects, Koons based Seated Ballerina on a small porcelain figurine. The sculpture acts as […]
The American Question: Rethinking Values in Order to Survive as a Superpower
A year after the historically divisive 2016 elections, a new documentary is challenging Americans to stop blaming others and question how their own decisions and actions shape the contours of our society and our country. By asking questions about family, money, religion, civics and more, the film gets viewers to question whether the divisions in our society […]
Girl Scouts To Bring 2.5 Million Girls Into STEM Pipeline By 2025
The organization is working to raise $70 million toward developing the next generation of female leaders in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields. Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) has announced a groundbreaking national initiative to reduce the gender gap in STEM fields by bringing millions of girls into the STEM pipeline over the next eight […]
Is Your Business Prepared For a Cyberattack?
Massive cybersecurity breaches have become almost commonplace, regularly grabbing headlines that alarm consumers and leaders. But for all of the attention such incidents have attracted in recent years, many organisations worldwide still struggle to comprehend and manage emerging cyber risks in an increasingly complex digital society. PwC has launched its 2018 Global State of […]
Sailing on an Ocean of Trash: Caribbean to Norway And Back
Three people journeyed across the globe to discover the health of our seas. The Zing Ocean Conservancy team members have an incredible passion for the ocean; the beauty of it, the diverse life, the roughness of the seas and what is yet to be explored. Unfortunately, what they found is that how we live today is not […]
What Lessons Can we Learn From Fictional Businesses?
A business can have huge success, which people will remember, or they can experience even more significant failures that people will find hard to forget. We often look to business leaders and entrepreneurs for good leadership styles, to understand their success stories and learn from their mistakes. But it’s not only real-life businesses of which […]
Be Strong Documentary Tackles Bullying
Be Strong, a national, student-led youth empowerment organization dedicated to ending bullying in schools, is leading the charge to assure that no child lives with the isolation and fear of being bullied. In an effort to spread awareness in schools and the community, the organization will begin broadcasting its bullying prevention documentary online, reaching millions […]
Challenges to the Dream
What started as an annual writing contest encouraging students to express their personal struggles with race and discrimination is now an anthology featuring 91 pieces by 83 writers on topics ranging from racial and cultural stereotypes and school bullying to homophobia and identity questions. Published by CMU Press, “Challenges to the Dream: The Best of […]
‘Aqua Kale’ Being Grown in Middle East Desert
Global Food Industries (GFI) aims to produce around 24 tons of ‘Aqua Kale’ each year on water in the middle of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) desert. The farm uses 100% recycled water, helping produce up to 25% more food with the same water source compared with conventional methods. According to a Frost and Sullivan […]
