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Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.: Education and Global Competition

Source: Huffington Post

Nov 03, 2009

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This entry is the second in which Raj and Leslie offer a tangential view, not a consensus view, and not the average view. We seek to synthesize information and ideas from different vectors and extrapolate a resultant vector in an orthogonal dimension. Raj is an entrepreneur/technologist born and raised in India, educated in the United States, who now markets green energy solutions globally. Leslie is a clinical psychologist with an M.B.A. in strategy and finance from The University of Chicago who specializes in working with private equity investors. Through writing about capitalism, economics, education, the environment, and value creation, we aspire to create a social good.

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