Graduate Commencement 2011 | Remarks by Richard Florida, Ph.D.

Best-selling author Richard Florida addressed Niagara University students during graduate commencement exercises on Saturday, May 21.

Florida is the author of "The Rise of the Creative Class and Who's Your City?," an international best seller. His new book, "The Great Reset," explains how new ways of living and working will drive post-crash prosperity. Florida's ideas on the "creative class," commercial innovation and regional development have been featured in major ad campaigns for BMW and Apple, and are being used globally to change the way regions and nations do business and transform their economies. He is currently Director and Professor of Business and Creativity at the Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

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