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October 27, 2020     ARCHIVES

VIRTUAL: Pulitzer Prize Winners Sheryl WuDunn, HBS ’86, and Nick Kristof: Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

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Before the pandemic, the dynamic duo of Sheryl WuDunn and Nick Kristof published Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope featuring deeply personal stories of ordinary Americans to address the crises in working-class America while focusing on solutions mend half a century of failures. And with bitter irony, in the last several months, another disaster has likely upended the fragile existence of ordinary Americans. And the results are unimaginable.

WuDunn and Kristof will join the HBS Club of NY for a wide ranging discussion of the issues of the day and share the takeaways from their book.

Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WyDunn are husband and wife and have coauthored several books including A Path Appears and Half the Sky. Together they were awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1990 for their coverage of China. They also received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 2009. Now Kristof is an op-ed columnist for the New York Times. He won his second Pulitzer in 2006 for his columns on Darfur. WuDunn now works in banking.

 

“Tightrope is a heroic, harrowing, and at times tender, look at the high wire act that is survival for too many people today. Kristof and WuDunn know there are no easy solutions here, but that doesn’t mean we can’t take action, whether by pushing for better policies, or changing our own attitudes. This book will shake you—it did me—and that is the point,” Bono wrote for the book blurb.

The talk will be via Zoom, at 6:00 pm on Tuesday October 27. The discussion will be moderated by Quantum Media Advisor, Gretchen Grant.

For more information and to register go here.


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Quantum Media organizes both the Media Guru and Media Disruptor series in conjunction with the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York. Occasionally, we may also recommend other media events to our mailing list.

The Media Guru and Media Disruptor series feature top business leaders and innovators speaking to club members and guests in informal sessions about the art and business of media. The talks are formatted as question and answer and are generally off the record. Media Guru and Media Disruptor events are breakfasts or after work events and are held at different venues around the city. Subscribe to the mailing list for schedule and details.