The Fisher Prize
You are invited to attend the sixth Fisher Council on Global Trade & Technology and the awarding of the
prestigious Fisher Prize.
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This year's event commemorates the 100th birthday of the college's namesake, Max M. Fisher, and the tenth anniversary of the dedication of the Fisher College of Business campus at The Ohio State University. When: Wednesday, September 24,
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Friedman proposes that an ambitious national strategy—which he calls "Geo-Greenism"—is not only what we need to save the planet from overheating; it is what we need to make America healthier, richer, more innovative, more productive, and more secure.
As in The World Is Flat, he explains a new era—the
Energy-Climate era—through an illuminating account of recent events. He
shows how 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and the flattening of the world by the Internet
(which brought 3 billion new consumers onto the world stage) have combined to
bring climate and energy issues to Main Street.
But they have not gone very far down Main Street; the much-touted "green
revolution" has hardly begun. With all that in mind, Friedman sets out
the clean-technology breakthroughs we, and the world, will need; he shows that
the ET (Energy Technology) revolution will be both transformative and disruptive;
and he explains why America must lead this revolution—with the first Green
President and a Green New Deal, spurred by the Greenest Generation.
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Fisher Prize History
In 1998, through a generous gift from Leslie and Abigail Wexner in honor of
Max M. Fisher’s 90th birthday, the Fisher Council on Global Trade and
Technology and the Fisher Prize were established to honor the lifelong achievements
of both Mr. Fisher and the award’s recipient.
Previous notable recipients of the Fisher Prize include former Presidents Gerald R. Ford and George H. Bush and former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev.