Each week american history tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places located at the foot of Capitol Hill the United States botanic garden was first proposed by president george, washington in a 1796 letter next a visit to the grounds of the oldest botanic garden in North America to learn about the history of this plant museum. My name is ari novy. Im the executive director of the United States botanic garden. Were standing on whats currently called Union Square which is the End Cap one could say of the national mall on the east side just before you arrive at the United States capitol. Its a really fascinating piece of land because its actually gone through many transformations in terms of whats been here over the course of the history of Washington Dc really since around 1800. Its important to the botanic garden because the first United States botanic garden was actually on this piece of land even though today. Its most notably associated with the capital reflecting poo
At Ucla Executive Roundtable would like to welcome you to. Im going ucla future of work series. Today were talking about the new work. Im. Im pleased to introduce my Friend And Colleague Tsedal Neeley. She is a professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and shall be discussing her fantastic new book remote Work Revolution succeeding from anywhere. Her work focuses on health leaders can develop and implement global and digital strategies. We are excited to learn about the remote Work Revolution and orientation of the future. Welcome Tsedal Neeley. Im so happy to be with you today. Thank you for today. Thank you for having me. Thank you. We begin our discussion with your book provides leaders and workers to perform at the best we are addressing multiple employees issues with the rapid and unprecedented changes brought on by covid19. A pandemic accelerated the transition to remote operations with many companies migrating to virtual work. Since this massive transit
Conducted initial research and put out a request for a private company to work with them to develop a vaccine for the zika virus. Santa fe was the only company to reach an agreement with the u. S. Army in june, 2016. Senator Bernie Sanders demanded that the army require reasonable pricing language, also known as price control, in the deal. In response, they noted, we cant undermine the price of a vaccine we havent even made yet and said that its premature to consider or predict Zika Vaccine Pricing at this early stage of development, end quote. They said the proposed license would make royalty payments to the government and its exclusive license would not prevent other companies from developing competing vaccines. Following relentless media attacks, santa fe announced it would not continue development of or seek a license to develop a vaccine. There is still no vaccine for the zika virus. The taxpayers funded the research, a private company agreed to take the but this whole effort fail
Fascinating book. I promise you this is a book where youre going to set and read and go look at the time because you cant put it down and if you havent gotten a copy yet check your website to find your local bookseller or you can go to the official bookseller of the jcc national literary consortium which is a cappella books and i promise you wont have 1 million questions. I have 1 million questions and youre going to have some to you look at the bottom of the Screen Youll see theres a q a section. Put all your questions for walter there and towards the end we willtry to get to all of them. Lets get on with the main event and a little about our honored guest. Walter isaacson is a professor of history at tulane and hes been seeing ceo of the Aspen Institute and editor of time. Hes authored many incredible books including leonardo da vinci, innovator, steve jobs, Einsteins Life and universe, Benjamin Franklin and american life and kissinger, i am biography and Hes Coauthor of six friends
Can watch their programs anytime at booktv. Org. Good evening and welcome, im Cnn Correspondent holly firfer and im honored to be part of this whole book best in your Living Room so on behalf of the Mj Tca here in atlanta and the national jcc literary consortium welcome. We are in for such a fascinating evening tonight. With international bestselling author Walter Isaacson. Are going to talk about his latest book the Code Breaker Jennifer doudna,Gene Editing, and the future of the human race. This is an unbelievably fascinating book. I promise you this is a book where youre going to set and read and go look at the time because you cant put it down and if you havent gotten a copy yet check your website to find your local bookseller or you can go to the official bookseller of the jcc national literary consortium which is a cappella books and i promise you wont have 1 million questions. I have 1 million questions and youre going to have some to you look at the bottom of the Screen Youll s