June 11, 2009 at 10:14 am
Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis testifies before Congress today about whether federal regulators pressured him to complete a deal last year to buy Merrill Lynch. Mark T. Williams, a former Federal Reserve bank examiner who teaches finance in the School of Management and is writing a book on the fall of Lehman Brothers during […]
Television signals convert from analog to digital on Friday, in the switch-over that originally was planned for February but delayed by the FCC because too many Americans were unprepared. College of Communication Professor T. Barton Carter, an FCC expert, can discuss the whys and wherefores about the historic conversion. Contact T. Barton Carter, 617-353-3482, comlaw@bu.edu
June 10, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Even after agreeing to pay $15.5 million to settle suits accusing them of human-rights abuses in Nigeria, the Royal Dutch Shell oil company still has a major PR problem there. College of Communication Professor Peter Morrissey, a reputation-management expert who helped Johnson & Johnson in the Tylenol case, has some suggestions for Shell — including naming […]
June 10, 2009 at 10:38 am
A proposed resolution for failing Boston Public Schools, from Boston Mayor Tom Menino, is a series of city-run charter schools. Many in Boston are surprised as the Mayor has always opposed lifting the cap on area-charter schools in the past and shown support for alternatives to charter schools. For commentary, please contact School of Education […]
June 10, 2009 at 10:37 am
Google’s 2008 deal with publishers to make millions of books available online is rasing more antitrust suspicion from the Justice Department, which still may try to block or force a renegotiation of the deal which has not yet been approved in court. Formal civil investigative demands (CIDs) have now been sent to Google and the […]
June 10, 2009 at 10:21 am
Reports say plans to cap salaries at firms getting bailout money is being nixed by the Obama administration, which will leave it to Congress to limit bonuses. But the White House will name a “pay czar” to monitor bailed-out companies and will still push to revamp compensation practices in the financial industry. School of Management Professor Fred […]
With 10 large banks repaying the public billions in bailout money, it divorces the government from running the banks. But Treasury still owns stock warrants in those banks, which could become valuable over time. School of Law Professor Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law, thinks the warrants should be […]
With the Supreme Court declining to hear a creditors’ challenge to it, Fiat is set to purchase most of Chrysler’s assets which will lead the Italian automaker deeply into the American market. School of Management Dean Louis Lataif, the former head of Ford Motors in Europe, can discuss the big-picture impact of the deal. Contact Louis […]
Souces say The New York Times will request bids for the Boston Globe and has hired an investment bank to handle a possible sale, now that the Globe’s unions have all voted on cost-cutting contract offers. College of Communication Dean Tom Fiedler, a former Miami Herald executive editor, says the cuts made by the Times […]
