Friday, September 17, 2021
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114
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Friday, September 17, 2021
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44114
This summer, Michael Deemer was tapped to serve as the next President and CEO of Downtown Cleveland Alliance after founding President and CEO Joe Marinucci announced his retirement. This was a critical transition during a time when urban centers across the country were facing uphill battles during a challenging year. Top concerns were maintaining residential growth, boosting development, filling office...
Tuesday, February 02, 2016, 12:00 p.m.
What Will it Really Take to Improve Population Health?
Well-intentioned efforts to improve the health of populations rarely succeed, usually because they have too little impact or reach too few people. Solving this problem requires thinking differently about health determinants and levers to change them. As Commissioner of the New...
Friday, January 29, 2016, 12:00 p.m.
Driving Corporate Innovation Through Personal Disruption
The term "disruptive innovation" was coined in 1995 by Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School. It refers to an innovation that "creates new markets by discovering new categories of customers." Some of the most notable disruptive innovations to date include...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016, 12:00 p.m.
Climate: Change, Action, and New Energy for 2016
In December, 2015, world leaders from developed countries came together in Paris for the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) to discuss initiatives to address climate change. One of the ambitious goals included an aim to achieve a legally binding...
Friday, January 22, 2016, 12:00 p.m.
There are few topics that resonate more with Americans during a presidential election year than job creation and growth. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported an unemployment rate of 5 percent in December, 2015, the lowest in seven years....
Thursday, January 21, 2016, 12:00 p.m.
When the Lights Go Out: A Conversation about Concussions and Youth Sports
Nearly every week in the National Football League (NFL), a player suffers a head injury. Frontline reports 154 NFL concussions in the 2015 season. The long-term health effects of repeated concussions and other head injuries include memory loss, depression, and...
Friday, January 15, 2016, 12:00 p.m.
Masters of Innovation: The Nottingham Spirk Story
Cleveland-based business innovation firm Nottingham Spirk has nearly 1,000 patents that they have assigned to their clients/partners, all part of some of the most ubiquitous products in American life--the Crest Spin Brush, the Dirt Devil vacuum, the Swiffer SweeperVac, and...
Thursday, January 14, 2016, 12:00 p.m.
Preventing Extremist Narratives: Islam Not ISIS
Recent terrorist attacks in Paris, France; Aden, Yemen; San Bernardino, California, and at least seven other cities have been linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), fueling worldwide terror alerts and fear. After the attacks in California,...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016, 12:00 p.m.
Say Yes to Education: Bringing Communities Together
Mary Anne Schmitt-Carey is President of Say Yes to Education. Say Yes is a national nonprofit that galvanizes communities by partnering with them to help give every public high school graduate access to a college or other post-secondary scholarship. Say...
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