Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world’s biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them.
How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies “originals”: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. “The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they’re the ones who try the most,” Grant says. “You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones.”
A hyper-targeted audience is not necessarily the right audience. Gerry Bavaro explains how Merkle’s Publisher Addressable Marketplaces, aka PAM, will lead advertisers to exactly the right people.
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“Closing stores is not something we take lightly, but we do believe it will enable us to focus more on our better stores and on our digital business,” Karen Hoguet, Macy’s chief financial officer, told an investors in a conference call Thursday.