Out a couple of weeks ago. It is about a trifecta of individuals, well known individuals, warren buffett, jeff bezos, and jamie dimon talking about fixing the health care system. Joel right. The biggest guys around. The details around this still remained kind of hazy. What will actually be the solution in health care . How are they going to try to fix this . Theyre trying to find a ceo who can spearhead this initiative in the three companies. Amazon. Com, berkshire hathaway, and jpmorgan. What has been interesting, and where we try to pick up the narrative is the reaction within the industry. Because the health care industry, amazon is at the door, this is a big deal. That is where we picked up. Julia this is not what we were expecting from him as a foray amazon as a foray into the health care. We should make the point that at the moment they are tackling the situation with their individual companies. As you point out, what does this mean ultimately for all of the individual players he
Editor in chief of Bloomberg Businessweek, joel webber. Lets start in the business section. A story that is fascinating came out a couple of weeks ago. It is about a trifecta of individuals, well known individuals, warren buffett, jeff bezos, and jamie dimon talking about fixing the health care system. Right. The biggest guys around. The details around this still remained kind of hazy. What will actually be the solution in health care . How are they going to try to fix this . Theyre trying to find a ceo who can spearhead this initiative in the three companies. Amazon. Com, berkshire hathaway, and jpmorgan. What has been interesting, and where we try to pick up the narrative is the reaction within the industry. Because the health care industry, amazon is at the door, this is a big deal. That is where we picked up. Julia this is not what we were expecting as a foray into the health care. We should make the point that at the moment they are tackling the situation with their individual com
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Supported what we would call nonprofit or third sector work in the u. S. As i was finishing up my degree, there is this sort of job call for a postdoctoral fellowship at the Rockefeller Archive Center. I did not intend to study american philanthropy, but it turned out all my other experiences in nonprofit administration, environmental education, Historic Preservation made sense once i saw those records at the Rockefeller Archive Center and the other side of where the funding and that sort of design level of thinking came from. A happy accident. Host when did the rockefellers begin their philanthropy . Barbara the Rockefeller Family begins formal philanthropy in the late 19th century. They have a strong northern baptist belief system and faith, so they were always doing typing, charities, and giving back. But this thing we call philanthropy is really kind of a late 19th century and 20thcentury phenomenon as distinct from charity. I would say that kicks off first with John D Rockefeller
Seats. We are almost ready to start. Welcome everyone. I am barbara slavin. I am absolutely delighted that the National Iranian American Council has asked me to moderate this timely panel about the iranian elections. Before we start, i want to think congressman jared huffman, thanks to him we have the room. The Rockefeller Brothers fund for supporting the work that we do. We have a great panel. Hooman majd. T with he spent a lot of time going back and forth between the u. S. And ironic. He understands the political dynamic. We will have sanam naraghianderlini. Also, knows a lot about regional dynamics. Reza marashi. We will again up with a few questions from me and we will open up to you. Lots and lots to talk about. Let me begin by asking the panelists for their impressions of a split screen reality that we had over the last few days. We had a iranians dancing in the streets because they elected the elected president rouhani and we had President Trump giving a stern warning. What are