November 13, 2020

Did you know that 700,000 lives are lost annually due to fake malaria and tuberculosis drugs? Not enough people are aware of the problem, according to Alden Zecha, CFO of IPIHD/SEAD innovator Sproxil. Zecha spoke to Duke’s Fuqua School of Business as part of Duke’s entrepreneurship week on September 16th, 2014. The key to saving these lives is ensuring that the authentic, clearly and correctly labeled medications end up in the hands of those who need them.

November 13, 2020

“You have to be fundamentally willing to fail,” said Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, the President of the Republic of Iceland in his opening remarks at a breakout session during the Clinton Global Initiative 2014, an annual meeting that attracts leaders, organizers, and innovators from around the world working to tackle a wide array of critical issues we face today. But the breakout session – “Can we fail faster, bigger and better for greater impact?”– was itself an illustration of the challenges behind talking about failure.

November 13, 2020

March Madness is over here at Duke University and we are feeling bittersweet that the fun is over and that we have to wait a whole year to see our friends again.