The Immigration Innovation Act of 2013
In January of 2012, a year before the most earnest debate on immigration reform in over a decade would begin, Thomas J. Donahue, CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce told conference attendees that...
View ArticleIs President Obama on the Right Side of the Immigration Fence?
While the U.S. economy continues to struggle, measures that could help alleviate unemployment and spur economic growth have remained buried in complex immigration reform bills. The possibility of using...
View ArticleThe New York Restoration Project: Citizens Keeping NYC Clean
With a population of over 8 million people and an annual tourist influx of 50 million, New York City has its hands full keeping on top of litter and trash. In the most recent Trip Advisor survey, New...
View ArticleMayor Michael Bloomberg: An International Retrospective
Michael Bloomberg, three time mayor of New York City and businessman with a net worth of $27b, has had in impact on the city like few other people. As his mayoral term comes to an end in November,...
View ArticleEmpathy through Practice: Why Everyone Needs International Experience
New York City is one of the most international cities in the world. You can find people from every inch of the globe – not just travelers, but business owners, students, entrepreneurs, laborers, and...
View ArticleFive Reasons Why We Love the NY Bike Share Program
The New York International team has always been enthusiastic about a bike share program coming to New York. Our team comes mostly from Europe and has spent time living in Asia and South America. A lot...
View ArticleWhy Won’t New York City Share?
We’re living in an innovative age, where technology makes many aspects of life easier and more convenient – but sometimes bureaucracy can get in the way of convenience. This is never more clearly...
View ArticleAre You Extraordinary? – An Examination of O-1B Visas
Are you “extraordinary?” If so, the United States wants you. But first, you have to prove you are extraordinary by the increasingly narrow and subjective definition of “extraordinary ability.” Not so...
View ArticleTen Things I Wish I Knew Before Moving to NYC
This is my fourth year living in New York City. My experience has been amazing so far, and I am completely in love with the Big Apple. However, there are a few things that I wish I had known before...
View ArticleIs US Immigration Reform Dead?
Throughout the year headlines were abuzz with tales of an “immigration crisis” in the US. But when Congress failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform before their summer recess, that crisis went...
View ArticleWe need better Money
Article by Guest Author Thomas Meyer (Former Chief Economist of Deutsche Bank) In his “General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money” John Maynard Keynes took a dim view of political efforts to...
View ArticleThe Future of the Workspace
The Future of the Workspace By Dr. Amol Sarva From the time the physical office was first invented (picture Mr. Scrooge’s counting house) to the start of the twentieth century, little had changed....
View ArticleIs Software Having General Management for Desert?
TEP was founded in 2011 with the belief that the fast exchange of new concepts and ideas is vital for global economies. We started with a transatlantic perspective, which has since become a broader...
View ArticleSocial Media & Data: The Future of Elections?
The 2016 U.S. elections are finally over. Eight years ago President Obama revolutionized campaigning with data tracking and social media. The question for us: what did we learn from the 2016 campaigns...
View Article“Reporting in America is strong right now”
We started our Future-C conference this week with a warmup discussion at the Ford Foundation in midtown Manhattan. Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, and journalist Jeff Howe, presented their book...
View ArticleThe Worryingly Low-cost of producing Fake News
Fake news is a real problem as we know. Now a new report has put some numbers to the costs of running a fake-news campaign, revealing that a key part of the problem may be that doing so is incredibly...
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