Shaken Talks

Last June Nova SBE Executive Education invited Pedro Santa Clara to talk about disruption in education and our #roletoplay to push it. David Giron, Director of Codam - 42 Amsterdam -, join this conversation to share the 42 pedagogical model and his experience at both 42 Paris and Amsterdam. If you want to know what 42school is all about, this is your chance!

This week we had the pleasure to talk about the impact of the Covid-19 in India with Bhagwan Chowdhry, Professor of Finance at the UCLA Anderson School and at the Indian School of Business, where he is also the Director of the Digital Identity Research Initiative. Bhagwan has contributed extensively to International Finance, Corporate Finance, Impact Investing, and FinTech. Bhagwan has proposed the Financial Access at Birth (FAB) initiative in which every child born in the world is given an initial deposit of $100 in an online bank account to guarantee that they have access to financial services throughout their lives.

On April 18th we had an early morning coffee with John Cochrane -- early morning for him in Palo Alto... -- to chat about the economics of the covid crisis. John H. Cochrane is the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Past president of the American Finance Association, past editor of the JPE. John has published extensively in macroeconomics and finance — mostly great papers, except for the two he co-authored with Pedro… ;-) John is an accomplished glider plane pilot and has a fantastic family!

A Shaken Talk with Peretz Lavie former President of Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (2009-2019). It was an inspirational conversation about disruption in education and the future of Universities. We sure have a lot to learn from Technion -- and a lot to change in our universities...