Milken Global Conference

Live blogging from the Milken Global Conference. The Milken Institute Global Conference brings together some of the most extraordinary people in the world – from scientists, business executives and philanthropists to journalists, academics and Nobel laureates – to discuss, debate and deliberate today’s most pressing social, political and economic challenges.

Gary Becker and Michael Milken on The Marketplace of Ideas (Summary)

Gary Becker and Michael Milken on The Marketplace of Ideas (Summary)

Nobel Prize Laureate Gary Becker is recognized as one of the most influential economists in the world. He has tackled issues such as racial discrimination, Read More

Milken Institute Global Conference: Conversations On Leadership (Summary)

Milken Institute Global Conference: Conversations On Leadership (Summary)

Conversations on Leadership (click for video and more details)

A seemingly random panel of leaders of widely varied organizations—from an hotelier to Read More

Milken Institute Global Conference: Power and Economics of Social Media (Summary)

Milken Institute Global Conference: Power and Economics of Social Media (Summary)

The Power and Economics of Social Media (click to view list of participating speakers and video)

 

At the Milken Global Conference 2011, a Read More

Top 5 Panels from the Milken Institute Global Conference 2011

Top 5 Panels from the Milken Institute Global Conference 2011

At the Milken Institute Global Conference 2011, 3,000 of the world’s top leaders gathered in Beverly Hills to share ideas on this year’s theme, “Shaping Read More

Are You Unintentionally Sabotaging Your Working Relationships?

Are You Unintentionally Sabotaging Your Working Relationships?

In this podcast, author of The Man Who Lied To His Laptop and Stanford University professor Clifford Nass speaks with Vistage at the Read More

An Open Letter To Cable News

An Open Letter To Cable News

Dear Cable News:

In recent weeks, I’ve had the good fortune to spend time with some hard working public servants on both sides of the Read More

Leaders on Leadership

Leaders on Leadership

On Monday evening, Michael Milken led a panel discussion called Conversations on Leadership at The Read More

Seeking 12 Million Jobs at the Milken Institute Global Conference

Seeking 12 Million Jobs at the Milken Institute Global Conference

I was invited to attend the Milken Institute Global Conference 2011 by my friend Leo Bottary on Read More

Help Wanted: Seeking 12 Million U.S. Jobs (And Your Input)

Help Wanted: Seeking 12 Million U.S. Jobs (And Your Input)

Next week, I’ll be moderating a panel at The Milken Institute Global Conference titled, Help Wanted: Seeking 12 Million U.S. Read More

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Milken Conference Delivers the Next Big Ideas in Business

By the last day of the Milken Institute Global Conference, Russ Riendeau is exhausted. He’s spent three 16-hour

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Why Milken Conference is a Must for Business Thought Leadership

Why Milken Conference is a Must for Business Thought Leadership

It’s not everyday that you can sit down at a table and strike up a conversation with Ted Turner orRead More

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How the Milken Conference Grew From 60 Experts to Presenting More Than 500 Thought Leaders

When the Milken Institute Global Conference first got underway in 1998, there were about 60 speakers with one or Read More

Do We Have The Will?

Do We Have The Will?

With the mid-term elections behind us, Michael Milken asked more than 200 Vistage Chairs this question during a speech this Read More

Where’s the Better Business Bailout?

Small businesses represent 50% of the U.S. economy and virtually 0% of the recent bailout. And, while everyone tosses out trite phrases such as, do Read More

A Looming National & Corporate Tsunami

A Looming National & Corporate Tsunami

While conference attendees discussed business, bailouts, and bogus bonuses, there was a quieter panel at the Milken conference soberly addressing a looming crisis.

“Alzheimer’s plagues Read More

Frank Luntz Shares What Americans Want to Hear (And Don’t)

Frank Luntz Shares What Americans Want to Hear (And Don’t)

For the PR pro, marketing guru and business owner, political consultant and pollster Frank Luntz’s panel at the Milken Institute Global Conference had some critical Read More

The Conversations Behind the Milken Institute Global Conference

The 2010 Milken Institute Global Conference brought together hundreds of world-class speakers, some of the top world leaders and several thousand attendees paying upwards of Read More

My GenY Perspective on Why Digital Swarms Need A Young Gun at the Helm

My GenY Perspective on Why Digital Swarms Need A Young Gun at the Helm

When the moderator was sitting in the lobby at the SXSW conference, she witnessed a brand-new idea for her. Simultaneously, everyone in the lobby stood Read More

Do You Think Like an Innovator?

Do You Think Like an Innovator?

“I approach every project with a new insecurity,” stated Frank Gehry, world renowned architect of the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao, Spain and the Walt Disney Read More

Even Non-Beer Drinkers Should Take A Swig

Even Non-Beer Drinkers Should Take A Swig

Ever wonder who thinks up some of the domain names out there…what are they thinking…or is it what they’re drinking?

Bill Fisher loved beer, so Read More

Who’s Planting Solution Seeds?

Who’s Planting Solution Seeds?

No better place to take the pulse of how America’s leaders and thinkers are truly feeling about our future than here at the Milken Institute Read More

Where’s a crystal ball when you need one?

Where’s a crystal ball when you need one?

66% of the 3000 conference attendees predict that it will be 2013 before Americans’ net worth will return to its mid-2007 peak. Are they pessimists Read More

How to fail successfully

How to fail successfully

This first day of the Milken Conference was filled with a daunting array of success symbols: black Armani suits and black Town Cars, entourages of Read More

Corn dogs, fluffy pillows, and burned flags: Fixing a broken brand

Corn dogs, fluffy pillows, and burned flags: Fixing a broken brand

There is a lot going on here at the Milken Institute Global Conference so stay tuned..

Let’s do a quick gut check. I’m going to Read More

Valet Park, Self Park or South Park… What’s Your Brand?

Valet Park, Self Park or South Park… What’s Your Brand?

Attending the panel at the Milken Intitute Global Conference and having a one on one interview with Stephen J. Cloobeck, Chairman and CEO of Diamond Resorts International, Read More