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Clear all filters- Milken Institute56 min
Strategic Advocacy: Persuading People to Care
Cheryl Wu-Dunn, Seth Rogen, Lauren Miller-Rogen, Maria Shriver, Jalissa Alvarado, Liz Simons, Carolyn Gallagher, Margaret Brennan, Carolyn Jungermann Bennett, Jennif, David Levinson, John McCurry, Jr., Nancy Kanwisher, Jr., Martha Minow, Kathy Ireland, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Martha Nussbaum
Founded by Cheryl Wu-Dunn and Seth Rogen, Hilarity for Charity leverages comedy to mobilize millennials and young adults, addressing the critical funding gaps and stigma surrounding Alzheimer's disease through high-profile political engagement. Simultaneously, organizations like Save the Children and the YWCA focus on distinct yet intersecting crises, utilizing data-driven campaigns to demand early childhood education investments while advocating for human rights to combat the persistent HIV/AIDS crisis and global human trafficking. Collectively, these initiatives employ a multifaceted strategy combining celebrity influence, legislative pressure, and corporate accountability to force systemic change and secure billions in funding for neglected research and social causes.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
Accessing China's Markets
Lucy Colback, Robert Petty, Edwin Wong, Larry Zhang, Patrick Zhong, David Freeman, Rob Hanson, Hong Liu, Brian Kessler, Myron Scholes, FEMALE SPEAKER 1
A panel of financial experts analyzed China's evolving landscape, highlighting regulatory reforms that expanded offshore capital access and the structural shift from heavy industry toward a consumption-driven economy led by a middle class exceeding 100 million people. Speakers distinguished between long-term financial liberalization and tactical management challenges, noting a natural currency hedge from a seven trillion RMB bond market and emerging opportunities in healthcare and distressed assets. The discussion concluded with strategic advice for investors to adopt a five-year horizon, leveraging the gap between domestic and foreign capital managers while navigating communication risks and lease uncertainties.
- Milken Institute1h 3m
The Changing Energy Landscape: What's the New Normal?
Brian Sullivan, Greg Beard, Lisa Murkowski, Michael Smith, William Sonneborn
Following a historic shift to unmanaged global oil markets and a severe budgetary crisis in producing states, industry leaders from Apollo Global Management and Freeport LNG outlined a strategy focused on acquiring distressed assets at significant discounts while bypassing unprofitable U.S. renewables. Despite widespread corporate distress and regulatory hurdles, the panel projects a future energy mix reliant on a "smorgasbord" of sources, including natural gas and emerging market infrastructure, as domestic critical mineral independence becomes paramount. Strategic consensus among these key figures emphasizes asset-specific underwriting over broad baskets, aiming to capitalize on an eventual price recovery to $75–$80 per barrel driven by long-term supply deficits.
- Milken Institute1h 15m
Public Health: The Key to Prosperity
Ryan Shadrick Wilson, Dr. Lynn Goldman, Harry Leiter, Carmen Nevarez, Dr. Winston Wong
This event analyzes the disparity between the United States' high healthcare expenditure and its lagging public health outcomes, highlighting systemic barriers where current payment models prioritize treatment over prevention. Speakers detail how strategic investments in community wellness, such as Walgreens' data-driven loyalty programs and Kaiser Permanente's long-term retention strategies, can drive significant economic returns and reverse trends in chronic disease. The discussion concludes by outlining cross-sector collaborations and policy shifts required to address structural inequities, including the "Zip Code" determinant of health, to improve life expectancy and economic productivity.
- Milken Institute1h 11m
Treasury's War on Terror: What It Means for Banking and Global Commerce
Staci Warden, Timothy Adams, Christine Duhaime, John Dye, Matthew Epstein, Farley Mesko
At the 2016 Milken Institute Global Conference, panelists analyzed how the U.S. Treasury's aggressive post-9/11 sanctions strategy inadvertently triggered widespread financial de-risking and excluded unbanked populations. Experts highlighted the inefficiency of current anti-money laundering regimes, noting that banks spend vast resources on broad compliance rather than targeting the estimated 0.1% of illicit flows actually detected. The discussion concluded by proposing a shift toward technology-driven intelligence, collaborative law enforcement models, and unified regulatory guidance to restore financial inclusion while surgically targeting known bad actors.
- Milken Institute55 min
Transforming a Legacy Company
Erik Schatzker, Hubert Joly, Federica Marchionni, Denise Morrison, Takeshi Niinami
CEOs Hubert Joly of Best Buy, Federica Marchione of Lands' End, Denise Morrison of Campbell's, and Takeshi Nishimura of Suntory detailed their strategies for transforming century-old enterprises facing threats from digital disruption and demographic shifts. These leaders successfully reversed decline by implementing specific tactics such as Best Buy's price-matching, Campbell's purpose-driven rebranding, Lands' End's generational product bridging, and Suntory's global acquisitions. The panel concluded that while core corporate values must remain rooted in identity, successful turnaround requires a bias for action, agile business model evolution, and the recruitment of diverse leadership to bridge legacy strengths with future market demands.
- Milken Institute1h 11m
The Shifting Economic Power of Cities
Conrad Kiechel, Fahd Al-Rasheed, Byron Boston, Marc Morial, Naheed A. Nenshi, Carol Kretschmann
Leading urban experts, including New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial and Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi, convened to address the critical intersection of rapid global urbanization, financial sustainability, and social resilience. The panel examined diverse case studies ranging from post-Katrina infrastructure reform and Calgary's debt restructuring against sprawl to Emar Economic City's innovative corporate governance model in Saudi Arabia. Ultimately, the dialogue underscored the necessity of aligning private capital, smart city technologies, and inclusive social policies to manage the challenges of population growth, disaster recovery, and refugee integration in the modern metropolis.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Investing in Infrastructure: Closing the Trillion-Dollar Gap
Andrew Clairaut, Kathy Hahn, Sudhir Hari, Scott Mackin, Greg Smith
A projected $90 trillion global infrastructure funding gap by 2030 persists due to a mismatch between long-term institutional mandates and the scarcity of bankable projects in both developed and emerging markets. While pension funds prioritize low-risk, regulated assets in OECD nations, private equity firms employ multilateral de-risking and hard currency strategies to target higher returns in developing regions where political and regulatory hurdles often stall deal execution. Bridging this deficit requires a shift from purely public funding to coordinated private mobilization, necessitating standardized concession frameworks and active stakeholder management to overcome sovereign default fears and political volatility.
- Milken Institute58 min
Is the Sharing Economy the New Normal?
Josh Barro, Stacy Brown-Philpot, Kenny Dichter, Belinda Johnson, Alan Krueger, Artie Minson
Alan Kruger and industry leaders from Uber, Airbnb, TaskRabbit, Wheels Up, and WeWork analyze how platform economies are rapidly scaling to unlock idle assets and labor flexibility, currently serving under 1% of the U.S. workforce. While companies like Airbnb and WeWork drive immediate efficiency through community-based models and high utilization rates, experts warn that true macroeconomic productivity gains will only materialize once platform work expands to 5–10% of the total economy. Despite these growth projections, the sector faces critical regulatory hurdles regarding worker classification, prompting proposals for a new "independent worker" category to balance flexibility with essential social protections.
- Milken Institute53 min
Global Overview: Will Economic Growth Be Sustained?
Henny Sender, Pierre Beaudoin, Liang Xinjun, Kevin Turner, Mark Weinberger, Andrew Witty
Leaders from Fosun, Bombardier, GSK, Microsoft, and PwC convened to analyze global economic dichotomies, highlighting China's shifting demographics, aerospace sustainability, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution as key growth vectors. The panelists contrasted China's consumption-driven leverage and capital outflows against Western infrastructure financing gaps and declining capital expenditure, while noting record M&A activity as a response to suppressed organic growth. Key takeaways included strategic pivots toward B2F health sectors, decentralized pharmaceutical manufacturing, and a warning that geopolitical protectionism poses a greater long-term productivity threat than the 2008 financial crisis.
- Milken Institute56 min
Entertainment: Riding the Global Wave
Les Moonves, Jeff Schell, Melody Hobson, Richard Lovett
Media executives detailed the sector's pivot from platform-centric models to content-driven ecosystems, highlighted by CBS's revenue exceeding expectations and its strategic repositioning as a global content-first company. In parallel, NBCUniversal's acquisition of DreamWorks Animation underscored the industry's consolidation trend, driven by the necessity for scale to handle international promotion and expand into theme parks and consumer products. Key figures further noted that diverse storytelling and direct-to-consumer distribution strategies have become essential financial imperatives for capturing the rapidly growing Asian and Latin American markets.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
Election 2016: Navigating the Fault Lines
Candy Crowley, Evan Bayh, Eric Cantor, Jason Grumet, Chris Krueger
The analysis predicts a decisive Republican nomination for Donald Trump in Indiana, while the Democratic primary remains a statistical tie between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton driven by divergent spending strategies and structural superdelegate advantages. Underpinned by deep economic anxiety over stagnant wages and rising costs, the event frames the general election as a polarized referendum where Clinton faces a narrow path to victory in the Rust Belt and Trump must overcome significant headwinds with female voters. Expert assessments conclude that regardless of the winner, the presidency will face severe legislative gridlock, with the Supreme Court vacancy serving as the immediate and most critical policy priority for the incoming administration.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
Digital Darwinism: How Companies Can Survive and Thrive in the Digital Age
Andy Serwer, Nikesh Arora, John Chen, David Cote, Sallie Krawcheck
Hosted by Yahoo! Finance's Andy Serwer before a global audience, this panel featured leaders from Ellevest, Honeywell, BlackBerry, and SoftBank discussing critical shifts in technology and investment strategy. Sally Krawcheck highlighted the gender investing gap, while Nikesh Arora outlined SoftBank's focus on disrupting industries through long-term capital for IoT and FinTech. Simultaneously, Dave Cote detailed Honeywell's transition to software-driven industrial engineering, and John Chen described BlackBerry's pivot toward enterprise security and data manipulation protection. The discussion concluded with a consensus on the necessity of validating data for specific ROI, the disruption of traditional education models, and the growing corporate focus on cybersecurity as a primary risk management priority.
- Milken Institute57 min
Marketing in the Digital Age: A Conversation with John Sculley and David A. Steinberg
John Sculley, David A. Steinberg, Peter L. Hopkins
Former Pepsi CEO John Scully and Zeta Interactive discuss the critical industry shift from mass-media brand campaigns to data-driven, attribution-based marketing that directly correlates ad spend to sales outcomes. This transformation is powered by Zeta's proprietary database of 350 million individuals, which enables real-time "fast data" analytics to replace traditional agency models while adhering to strict privacy standards and opt-in regulations. Looking ahead, the speakers predict that surviving organizations must pivot toward adaptive innovation and the "experience internet," where future success depends on customer lifecycle management rather than broad advertising budgets.
- Milken Institute54 min
The Next Big Things in Technology: A Preview
Ken Housman, Rose Schuller, Yobi Benjamin, Bo Ewald, Arvind Sadani, Skip Rizzo
Moderated by Ken Housman, a panel of experts including Rose Schuller, Yobi Benjamin, Bo Ewald, Arvind Sadani, and Skip Rizzo analyzed the transformative economic and societal impacts of IoT, quantum computing, AI, and VR. The discussion highlighted specific breakthroughs such as IoT increasing rice yields by 50%, quantum systems achieving 100 million-fold speedups, and VR enabling clinical PTSD treatment, while projecting these technologies will eventually eradicate diseases like cancer and disrupt global labor markets. Ultimately, the speakers emphasized that democratizing these advanced tools is essential to mitigate security risks and ensure broad access to a future where resources are optimized and health challenges are solved computationally.