As global health officals ponder “what if” scenarios over the mixing of the new H1N1 flu with bird flu that is endemic in Asia and/or regular flu in the southern hemisphere, researchers are grappling with new vaccine concerns and whether in the fall, a new flu strain combination will be more virulent. Alexander Ozonoff, a BU School of Public Health assistant professor of […]
Google acknowledges the FTC is asking about antitrust implications of the ties between the boards of Google and Apple. Though they share two directors and compete on cell-phone operating systems, browser software, and online video distribution, Google says there’s no antitrust there. School of Management Professor Michael Salinger, a former FTC official, and Law Professor Keith […]
With Boston Globe Newspaper Guild members still considering the final contract offer from owners at the New York Times, the Globe’s publisher is predicting more reductions but a future for New England’s largest paper. Meantime, sources say the Times is looking for a buyer. College of Communication Dean Tom Fiedler, a former executive editor of […]
With the release of results from the government’s “stress tests” on the nation’s largest financial institutes, 10 major banks must raise nearly $75 billion in capital. Former Fed bank examiner Mark T. Williams, who teaches at the School of Management, says, “The race is on now: Whoever gets to market first and has the most […]
The Institute for Human Sciences is hosting a two-day conference on the “Future of Food” on Friday, May 8 and Saturday, May 9. The conference will examine the topic of “How can we foster a global food system that safeguards cultural and biodiversity while providing safe and nourishing food for all citizens?” Most events are […]
Law Professor Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law and former counsel to the Fed Board of Governors, looks beyond the banking “stress tests” to lessons learned. “Assuming the stress tests produced ‘material’ findings for the bank regulators (BofA’s $34 billion capital deficiency seems to be ‘material’) doesn’t this say […]
Law Professor Tamar Frankel, author of “Trust and Honesty: America’s Business Culture at a Crossroad,” says taxation is a reasonable tool to use to control corporations which are being given federal bailout money because they’ve become “too big to fail.” “Many wonder and worry about the mammoth banks and corporations that became ‘too big to […]
Battered women’s shelters, which historically experienced difficulty maintaining contact with abuse survivors after they leave, should consider using e-mail to stay in touch, according to Emily Rothman, assistant professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the School of Public Health. She led a study of abuse survivors in 11 Massachusetts domestic violence shelters and found that the abusers never hacked into their […]
Law Professor Linda McClain, an expert in family law and policy, says it is interesting how Maine became the fifth state to legalize same-sex marriages when Governor John Baldacci signed the bill passed by the state Senate. “Maine is interesting because it has a relatively modest domestic partnership law that is not nearly as inclusive […]
Law Professor Tamar Frankel, an authority on securities law and legal ethics, applauds the Securities and Exchange Commission for bringing its first insider-trading case involving the unregulated financial world of Credit Default Swaps. “It makes good sense for the SEC to start prosecuting in the area of credit swaps. First, one can learn a lot […]
