Tom Payzant

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Title: Urban School Leadership

ISBN: 9780787986216

 
 

Topic/Genre: Education

 

Publication Date: December 14, 2010

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Tom Payzant (Boston, MA) is Professor of Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.  Prior to this he served as Superintendent of the Boston Public Schools for ten years. Previously, he was Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education during the Clinton Administration. Dr. Payzant also served as Superintendent in four communities prior to Boston. In 2004, he received the  Richard R. Green Award for Excellence in Urban Education from the Council of Great City Schools. Currently, Dr. Payzant consults, trains, and speaks with school leaders across the nation. He also teaches at the Broad Foundation’s Superintendent Academy.

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http://128.103.178.26/faculty_research/profiles/profile.shtml?vperson_id=215

Charles Fadel

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Title: 21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times

ISBN: 9781118157060

 
 

Topic/Genre: Education

 

Publication Date: January 20, 2012

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Charles Fadel (Boston, MA) is a global education thought leader and expert, author, and inventor, with several affiliations:

  • Visiting Practitioner at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.  Visiting Lecturer at MIT IAP program and Wharton/UPenn ‘s CLO program.  Member of the President’s Council at Olin College. Senior Fellow, Human Capital at The Conference Board.
  • Vice-chair of the Education committee of the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
  • Formerly Global Education Lead at Cisco Systems, and its liaison with UNESCO and the World Bank.
  • Board member at Innovate/Educate.  Former board member at the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, and Change the Equation.
  • Co-author of a best-selling book titled “21st Century Skills” now being translated into mandarin Chinese, Russian and Korean http://www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com/index.php
  • Angel investor with Beacon Angels  http://beaconangels.wordpress.com/members/

He has worked on education projects with more than thirty countries and states, both developed and developing.  His work spans Schools, Higher Education, and Workforce Development.  He has been featured by National Public Radio, the CBC, Huffington Post, and many other media.

Charles has been awarded five patents, and worked in the ICT industry (semiconductors, and systems) for 20+ years in his career.  He holds a BS in electronics/physics with a minor in neuroscience, and a MBA in international marketing.

Author Website:  

http://www.21stcenturyskillsbook.com/index.php

Jerome Schultz

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Title: Nowhere to Hide: Why Kids with ADHD and LD Hate School and What We Can Do About It

ISBN: 9780470902981

 
 

Topic/Genre: The Stress/Learning Connection/Child Mental Health/Education

 

Publication Date: August 9, 2011

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Jerome J. Schultz, Ph.D. (Boston, MA), has practiced clinical neuropsychology for 30 years and is currently on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. A former middle school teacher, Schultz specializes in the neuropsychological assessment and treatment of youth with learning disabilities and ADHD. In addition to his clinical work and teaching, Schultz is an active presenter at national and international conferences such as CHADD and LDA, and consults to schools and organizations on educating children with special needs. A contributor to numerous web sites (FamilyEducation.com, LDOnline.org, and InsideADHD.org), Schultz serves on several boards, including Learning Disabilities Association of America.

Author Website: 

www.jeromeschultz.com

Robert Pozen

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Title: The Fund Industry:  How Your Money is Managed

ISBN:  9780470634257

Topic/Genre: Institutional/Corporate Finance

Publication Date: February 14, 2011

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Robert Pozen (Boston, MA) is Chairman of MFS Investment Management®, which manages over $150 billion in assets for over five million investors.  He currently serves as a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School.  He was chairman of the SEC advisory committee on improving financial reporting. In 2001 and 2002, Pozen served on President Bush’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security.  Pozen was also formerly vice chairman of Fidelity Investments and president of Fidelity Management & Research Company. During Bob’s five years as president, Fidelity’s assets increased from $500 billion to $900 billion.  He also served as the associate general counsel to the SEC, partner at Caplin & Drysdale, and a law professor at Georgetown and NYU.

Pozen has published a broad variety of articles in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Financial Times of London. In addition, he authored the first textbook comparing the regulation of banks to other financial institutions and the main textbook on the mutual fund business.

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http://bobpozen.com

David Meerman Scott

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Title: The New Rules of Marketing & PR: How to Use Social Media, Online Video, Mobile Applications, Blogs, News Releases, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers

ISBN: 9781118026984

 
 

Topic/Genre: Business

Publication Date: August 11, 2011

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David Meerman Scott’s book The New Rules of Marketing & PR opened people’s eyes to the new realities of marketing and public relations on the Web. Six months on the BusinessWeek bestseller list and published in 26 languages from Bulgarian to Vietnamese, New Rules is now a modern business classic. Scott’s popular blog and hundreds of speaking engagements around the world give him a singular perspective on how businesses are implementing new strategies to reach buyers.

He is also the co-author (with Brian Halligan) of the hit book Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can Learn from the Most Iconic Band in History and wrote three other books including World Wide Rave.

His Web Ink Now blog is ranked by AdAge Power 150 as a top worldwide marketing blog.

He is a recovering VP of marketing for two publicly traded technology companies and was also Asia marketing director for Knight-Ridder, at the time one of the world’s largest newspaper and electronic information companies.

David has lived and worked in New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong. He currently lives in the Boston area.

Satisfied audiences include: Cisco, HP, Microsoft, The New York Islanders, NASDAQ Stock Market, the Government of Ontario, McKesson, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, SAP, Google, Digital River, Hill & Knowlton, Hanley Wood, Dow Jones, National Investor Relations Institute, Milken Institute Global Conference, America Credit Union Conference, TS2, Giant Screen Theater Association, Realtors® Conference, and many, many more.

Affiliations: Board of advisors of HubSpot, board of advisors of Eloqua, board of advisors VisibleGains, board of advisors of Newstex, advisory board of the Grateful Dead Archive at UC Santa Cruz, member of the digital media advisory board of HeadCount, board of directors of Nashaquisset, previous board of directors at NewsWatch (sold to Yahoo Japan) and Kadient (merged with Sant).

Author Websites:

www.WebInkNow.com

www.davidmeermanscott.com

Chris Brogan

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Title: Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust (Revised and Updated)

ISBN: 9780470635490

 
 

Topic/Genre: Business, Marketing

 

Publication Date: July 30, 2010

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Chris Brogan is a leading authority on blogs, highly ranked by Technorati.com. With over 10 years of blogging and media making under his belt, Chris is one of the most widely read and respected bloggers on social software and methods out there today. He is co-founder of New Marketing Summit, the popular new media conference series that focuses on how to use social media tools to build relationships; more than 40 events have been executed all over the globe. He is also the co-founder of PodCamp.  Chris helps businesses and individuals understand community and relationship development through the use of social media tools like blogging, podcasting, and video.  Chris is also the author of The Social Media 100:  Tactics and Tips to Develop Your Business Online.

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http://www.chrisbrogan.com