About Harold Iii
Harold Wallace III, who uses the name Harold Wallace III in his public appearances, delivered a TEDx talk in 2018 in which he discussed the concept of "code switching," which he defined as changing one's language, dialect, and demeanor to fit a given social environment. He described code switching as a survival skill for minorities and said he uses it because he has "a family to feed and bills to pay." Wallace also addressed microaggressions, giving examples such as asking a Hispanic student where they are from or telling an Asian-American student they speak English well. He stated that if the majority put "at least 10% of the effort" that minorities put into understanding others, "America could be a utopia," but added that "that would mean abandoning the idea of America as we know it."
Harold "Terry" McGraw III, former CEO and chairman of The McGraw-Hill Companies, has spoken in various forums about trade and economic policy. In a 2015 interview as chairman of the International Chamber of Commerce, he identified trade, financing for growth, human capital and education, and investment in infrastructure as key priorities. He expressed support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership and for a WTO agreement on trade facilitation, stating that these measures would lead to "higher levels of growth" and "more job creation." In a 2008 keynote address, McGraw argued that business media should pursue new strategies for the new media environment while maintaining their "comparative advantage" of delivering "reliable, trustworthy, and insightful information."
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Well, you know, again, meetings like this, the agenda has been well prepared. It's in all areas that affect and influence the economy, whether it's business sectors or broad policy issues and the like. What we want to see come out of it is that there's a focus. You can't do 500 things when a conference like this ends and everybody's going to spread out and go do it. You want to see unity and people focusing on those priorities that are most important. I would say right now some of the most important priorities are certainly trade, and we need to see more participation. On this one, I think the Trans-Pacific Partnership that we talked about will get done rather soon, and that will benefit 12 countries, but we've got to expand it and broaden it and bring other people into it. Transatlantic we talked about, but also at the WTO level, for the first time there's on the table an international trade agreement on services trade facilitation, which is crossing borders, customs processing, and all that will help exports. So coming out of this conference, there needs to be three or four things, and this is why CICI's involved, because we're going to insist upon it. We also provide the continuity from host country to host country for the G20, and in no time we work with the B20 in helping to set the agenda. The agenda that we've been a part of establishing has been very clear. It's not a whole bunch of things. It's one: financing for growth, all about the capital markets. Number two: human capital and education, about your workforce and your future workforce. Three: investment and infrastructure. And four: trade. So we come out and say, if we do these things, you're going to get higher levels of growth, more job creation, more prosperity, you'll be able to expand the middle class, more people getting involved and being able to prosper. And it's all about small and medium-sized enterprises, creating an environment that encourages people to innovate and create in a small business environment, and they need to be protected as well. So those are the things. What we're doing is helping to set the schedule and the agenda such that it's tight, focused, and meaningful. Growth and job creation are going to be at the center of it.
