IdeaLab 2012’s greatest hits: Rishi Jaitly
The Knight Foundation's Rishi Jaitly was a featured speaker at January's Revitalization & Business Conference. He talked about empowering people to lead using ambition, dreams and innovation — and to do it in Detroit. Right on. Take it away, Rishi.
Since January 2011, Model D has had the privilege of partnering up with some cool students and faculty at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. The two day program — one in Detroit, the other in Ann Arbor — is called the Revitalization & Business Conference. An afternoon session called IdeaLab featured some amazing work. We recapped it here.
There were several presentation highlights, including this one featuring Rishi Jaitly of the Knight Foundation and Kiva Detroit.
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