Dear Colleagues
March 1st is the dateline for abstracts to the Johns Hopkins Symposium on Free Market Solutions to Urban Grand Challenges
Grand challenges are ambitious goals that harness science, technology, and innovation to solve important national or global problems, and that have the potential to capture the public's imagination. By their very nature, the problems are systemic. The solutions are multidisciplinary and integrated, and require the participation of multiple stakeholders. Closing the gap between the economic haves and have-nots is an enduring grand challenge. In terms of business economics, the poverty gap prevents human capital from achieving full productivity, attenuates societal consumption, and thus limits business growth.
For more, please go to: https://carey.jhu.edu/faculty-research/seminars-conferences/free-market-solutions-symposium
Profiles of keynoters at: https://carey.jhu.edu/faculty-research/seminars-conferences/free-market-solutions-symposium/speakers
The purpose of the symposium is not to find solutions but to air the issues and approaches that we use in asking questions about urban problems. The hope is that a heterogenous group of smart people will find themselves talking to others they would not normally encounter in their scholarly life, and hence spark creative thinking. Dateline for abstract submission is March 1, 2019. Decisions will go out on March 15, so participants have time to plan.
Abstracts to be submitted at: https://carey.jhu.edu/faculty-research/seminars-conferences/free-market-solutions-symposium/how-to-submit-an-abstract
Please disseminate this opportunity to your colleagues and consider nominating your PhD students to attend the PhD consortium. Accepted PhD students will receive a $1000 stipend to cover their travel costs.
Thank you,
Phillip Phan, PhD
Alonzo and Virginia Decker Professor
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Core Faculty, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine