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The Hope & Challenges of Mass Urbanization

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Compass Summit

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Partner:: Compass Summit
Location:: Terranea Resort
Palos Verdes, CA
Event Date:: 10.24.11
Speaker:: Richard Dobbs
Tags:: McKinsey Global Institute; urbanization; richard dobbs; mass urbanization

Summary: The Hope and Challenges of Mass Urbanization

Richard Dobbs, Director, McKinsey Global Institute

Compass Summit, a forum for true interaction and exchange, examines some of today's most pressing problems through the lens of global citizenship, recognizing that human ingenuity is an unlimited resource. Guided by NPR's Ira Flatow, an intimate group of some of the world's best thinkers and doers convened along the rugged Palos Verdes coastline on Oct 23-26, 2011 at Terranea Resort to engage in meaningful conversation, ask questions, and challenge ideas -- we invite you to join in the conversation.

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Richard Dobbs

Richard Dobbs is a director of the McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey & Company's economics and business research arm, and a director (senior partner) of McKinsey based in Seoul. He is an associate fellow of the Said Business School at Oxford University. Since joining McKinsey in 1988, he has served clients around the world in a variety of industries, ranging from high tech and financial services to petroleum, utilities, and the public sector.

Richard received a B.A. in engineering, economics, and management from Oxford University, and an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

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26 min 55 sec

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01.: Introduction

00 min 54 sec

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02.: A Historical Look of 1 AD Cities

03 min 42 sec

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03.: Historical Changes in Urbanization

03 min 39 sec

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04.: Projecting Future Changes in Cities

02 min 25 sec

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05.: Mass Upward Mobility

02 min 04 sec

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06.: Scale and Pace of Future Change

01 min 29 sec

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07.: Changing Trend of Global Investment Rate

01 min 45 sec

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08.: Urbanization Accelerating Need for Resources

00 min 59 sec

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09.: Global Labor Competition Affecting Wages

01 min 19 sec

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10.: Coping with the Challenges of Mass Urbanization

02 min 30 sec

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11.: Audience Questions

00 min 13 sec

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12.: Q1: What's the Light in Madagascar?

00 min 13 sec

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13.: Q2: Pace and Quality of Change Today?

02 min 39 sec

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14.: Q3: Basis for Future Projections?

01 min 15 sec

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15.: Q4: Where are the Future Urban Architects?

01 min 50 sec

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Globalization: The Challenge of Political Systems

02 min 24 sec

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Richard Dobbs, director of the McKinsey Global Institute, outlines the challenges that major political systems face in a future of expanding globalization and urbanization.
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