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The Hot Zone Approach to Battling Gang Violence
Connie Rice, Rev. Jeff Carr, Malcolm Klein, Charlie Beck, Ray Bercini, Father Gregory Boyle, Brian Center, Mike Clouden, Richard Sandler, Father Greg Boyle, Deputy Chief Charles Beck, Detective Ray Bersini, Deputy Mayor Jeff Carr
Panelists led by Dr. Malcolm Klein and Los Angeles officials analyze the city's gang crisis, redefining the problem through five distinct gang types while critiquing the current over-reliance on individual-focused interventions. The discussion highlights a strategic shift toward evidence-based policies, such as the "Summer Night Lights" program and collaboration with organizations like Homeboy Industries, which emphasize community hope and structural economic reform over pure suppression. Despite reporting a drop in homicides from 350 to 167, experts warn that sustained political will and a $40 million investment are essential to address the underground economy and prevent a resurgence of violence.
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Where Is the Economy Headed? A View From the Presidential Campaigns
Michael J. Boskin, Leo Hindery, Jr., John McCain, Barack Obama, Mike Clouden, Peter Purcell
Economic advisors Leo Hendry for the Obama campaign and Michael Boskin for the McCain campaign engaged in a moderated policy dialogue at a Milken Institute event, debating critical issues including income inequality, the causes of the financial crisis, and the efficacy of global trade agreements. The participants presented divergent views on taxation, where Hendry advocated for repealing tax cuts for high earners to reduce deficits, while Boskin argued that such measures would harm the U.S. standard of living and cited technology rather than policy as the primary driver of inequality. Through structured opening statements and rebuttals, the forum highlighted deep disagreements on regulatory approaches to the mortgage crisis and the role of government intervention in stimulating the economy.
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Revolution of Hope: The Life, Faith and Dreams of a Mexican President
Vicente Fox, Mike Milken, Governor Davis
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox joined Milken Institute Chairman Mike Milken for an exclusive dialogue on U.S.-Mexico strategic partnerships, highlighting Mexico's demographic surge, trade achievements under NAFTA, and the economic impact of the region's growing workforce. Fox detailed his administration's record of stabilizing inflation and boosting the stock market while advocating for comprehensive immigration reform and contrasting his cooperative leadership style with isolationist or force-based policies. Looking toward the future, the discussion projected Mexico's rise to become a top-five global economy by 2040 and urged deeper binational integration to counterbalance emerging Asian powers while addressing ongoing security challenges.
- Milken Institute1h 28m
Sam Wyly: 1,000 Dollars & an Idea
Sam Wyly, Milken, Mike Clouden
The Milken Institute hosts a December series of private breakfasts featuring former White House Chief of Staff Mac McLarty and new Los Angeles Times editor Russ Stanton, while scheduling a January forum on stem cell research with Allen Tronson. Concurrently, the organization promotes its 2009 Global Conference for April 27–29, noting that capped attendance is expected to sell out. These upcoming events follow a broader narrative highlighted by Sam Wiley's extensive business history, ranging from his tenure at IBM and the founding of Sterling Software to his recent leadership of Green Mountain Energy.
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MI Forum: Safe At Home With Joe Torre
Joe Torre, Jocelyn Toner, Jeff Klewer, Judith Lynn
The Milken Institute hosted an invitation-only forum where legendary baseball manager Joe Torre and his wife Allie announced the expansion of their Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation to address domestic violence through new school-based "Margaret's Place" safe rooms in Los Angeles. Leveraging a golf tournament fundraiser and an upcoming honorary event for Torre and Sandy Koufax, the initiative aims to scale its peer-support model nationally following a decade of work in New York. The session also featured Torre's reflection on the cultural shift toward media scrutiny in modern sports and his advocacy for accountability regarding the steroid era as he transitions his legacy from four World Series championships to social advocacy.
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Obama Campaign Manager Jim Messina Talks Big Data at the Milken Institute's 2013 Global Conference
The Obama 2008-2012 presidential campaigns established a data-driven paradigm by deploying over 160 analysts to build behavioral models that accurately predicted election outcomes across all 50 states within a 0.5% margin. Executing this strategy required massive nightly polling and A/B testing to allocate a billion-dollar budget efficiently, securing unprecedented support from undecided voters through personalized digital outreach and targeted social media simulations. While Republican opponents acknowledged a significant technical lag in these early years, the campaign's successors now focus on reinventing these tactics for the 2016 cycle to prevent stagnation in an increasingly competitive digital landscape.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
Value and Values: Building a High-Performance Company (updated)
Marc Benioff, Ken Hicks, Jay Rasulo, Walter Robb, Tom Wyatt, Willow Bay
CEOs from Salesforce, Whole Foods, Disney, Foot Locker, and Knowledge Universe convened to outline strategies where integrating core values with business performance drives long-term success. The panel highlighted specific operational shifts, such as Salesforce's 1-1-1 philanthropy model, Whole Foods' rapid transparency on supply chain issues, and Foot Locker's move toward distributed decision-making, all designed to build trust with millennials and investors. Executives concluded that in an era of accelerated competition, organizational culture and ethical accountability have become the primary differentiators for attracting talent and sustaining growth.
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Jack Andraka Talks About the Bioscience Discovery Process at Milken Institute Global Conference
Inspiried by a family tragedy, teenage innovator Jack Andraka developed a prototype cancer sensor that detects pancreatic, ovarian, and lung cancers with 100% accuracy at a cost of just three cents. His device, constructed from carbon nanotubes and antibodies, delivers results in five minutes and is 26,000 times cheaper and 400 times more sensitive than the current sixty-year-old medical standard. After overcoming two hundred rejections from academic institutions, Andraka validated his findings through rigorous testing, demonstrating a scalable technology capable of revolutionizing early disease detection for a wide range of conditions.
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A Conversation with Barry Diller (updated)
Barry Diller outlines a strategic vision for the media industry that prioritizes disintermediation and open internet ecosystems to dismantle closed cable bundles and legacy publishing models. Through specific assessments of companies like Aereo, Netflix, and Google, he predicts that disruptive innovation will shift market power from incumbents resisting change to agile, consumer-centric platforms. Diller identifies critical leaders such as Rupert Murdoch and Jack Welch as exemplars of risk-taking and bureaucratic agility necessary to survive in this evolving landscape.
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A Conversation with Larry King and Carlos Slim (updated)
Mexican businessman Carlos Slim outlined his philosophy that wealth is a byproduct of solving problems rather than an end goal, while criticizing Western fiscal policies and obsolete education models for failing to address global underdevelopment. He advocated for privatizing public assets, extending retirement ages, and integrating technology into education to combat high youth unemployment in Latin America. Slim further detailed his foundation's targeted health and digital inclusion initiatives, defending his telecommunications empire against monopoly accusations as he prepares to leverage infrastructure partnerships for regional economic growth.
- Milken Institute58 min
The Role of Universities in Accelerating Bioscience Research
David Baltimore, Joel Burdick, James Economou, Michael Quick, Owen Witte, Stephen Mayo, Steve Mayo, Nick, Francis Collins, Remy, Joe Boistak, Charles, Eric Green, Ray Deshaies
A consortium of leading academic figures, including Nobel Laureate David Baltimore and experts from Caltech, UCLA, and USC, convened to evaluate the intersection of biological engineering and clinical translation in the face of funding constraints. The panel detailed successful strategies for "engineered immunity" projects, such as converting muscle cells into antibody producers and conducting early-stage human trials within university settings, while highlighting the critical need for interdisciplinary programs that bridge the gap between engineering PhDs and MDs. Despite progress, participants identified a persistent "valley of death" in early-stage financing and urged a cultural shift toward professional management and team-based funding mechanisms to sustain innovation.
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When Past Performance Is a Guide: Using History to Make Sense of the Post-Crisis World
Daniel Arbess, Ben Funnell, Mitchell Julis, Peter Thiel, Niall Ferguson, Mitch Julis
A panel of prominent investors including Peter Thiel, Mitch Julis, Ben Funnell, and Dan Arbus debates whether current post-crisis economic conditions mirror the 1930s or represent a unique divergence driven by a lack of technological innovation and demographic headwinds. The discussion highlights critical risks such as the "disappearance of the future" in the West, structural stagnation in Europe, and a complex trilemma where fiscal policy is blocked while monetary stimulus yields diminishing returns. Consequently, the experts advocate for an investment strategy focused on capital preservation, specific innovation clusters, and potential "overt monetary finance" to navigate a landscape defined by non-linear complexity rather than historical equilibrium.
- Milken Institute1h 4m
Is Gender Parity Possible in the 21st Century?
Molly Ashby, Geena Davis, Deborah DeHaas, Manju Ganeriwala, Ann McElaney-Johnson, Willow Bay, Kathleen Sullivan, Subha Barry, Dr. Nita Arindapol, Kelly McElhaney, Brenda Bates, Nancy, Chris McGrath
A recent panel featuring Geena Davis and industry leaders from academia, finance, and government exposed severe gender disparities in family media, corporate leadership, and political representation, projecting that parity could take centuries at current rates. Speakers argued that these gaps stem from early media conditioning, retention failures, and cultural narratives that limit women's career aspirations, necessitating structural solutions like Norway-style quotas, diverse talent databases, and intentional content rewriting. The group concluded that achieving Hillary Clinton's 2050 vision of 50% global female leadership requires a mandatory shift from voluntary goodwill to accountability models driven by the economic necessity of talent scarcity and Millennial consumer pressure.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
How Improved Health and Longer Lives Drive Global Prosperity
Thomas Frieden, Jonathan Gluck, Carole Roan Gresenz, Michael Harsh, Peter Margolis, Ceci Connolly
A panel of experts from the CDC, GE Health Care, and leading academic institutions demonstrated that shifting from fee-for-service models to accountable care systems can simultaneously improve population health and reduce long-term costs through specific innovations like immunizations and diagnostic imaging. By leveraging data standardization, prize challenges, and telehealth pilots, the session highlighted how eliminating clinical variation and preventing disease rather than treating it generates billions in annual societal savings. The discussion concluded that political and payment reforms, rather than technological limitations, remain the primary obstacles to fully realizing these economic benefits and fostering entrepreneurial growth through universal insurance access.
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A Conversation with Howard Marks and Mike Milken
Howard Marks, Mike Milken, Michael Milken
Oaktree Capital employs historical market cycles and behavioral analysis to teach that asset quality is secondary to valuation, as demonstrated by repeated failures when investors extrapolate linear growth during bubbles like the Nifty Fifty and the 2008 crisis. By emphasizing that risk is often misperceived and that true success requires focusing on knowable fundamentals rather than unknowable macro trends, the firm structures its culture around team-based incentives to ensure long-term survival and client prioritization. This approach positions investors to profit by remaining aggressive when others are terrified and conservative when optimism dominates, effectively navigating market temperatures without relying on specific economic predictions.