Posts by: Jo Breiner

School of Law professor Cornelius Hurley comments on AIG

     

Healthy eating

Nutrition professor Joan Salge Blake offers tips on how to eat healthy on a budget. The interview appeared on WFXT-TV, Channel 25.  

Obama opens healthcare drive

College of Communication Dean Tom Fiedler comments on healthcare in an interview on Reuters-TV.    Contact Tom Fiedler, 617-353-3488, tfiedler@bu.edu

Clinton’s tough talk

International Relations Professor William Keylor on Reuters-TV discussing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Middle East visit.    

Executive bonuses: heads you lose, tails I gain

Tamar Frankel, professor in the School of Law, offers commentary on executive bonuses in a piece written for The Great Debate on Reuters. “The debate over corporate executive bonus payments should be put in perspective.  Some say that the executives did not earn these bonuses and don’t deserve the millions in parting payments that they […]

A Breach Of Fiduciary Duty At Bank Of America?

School of Management finance professor Mark Williams writes in Forbes about potential negligence by Bank of America during its Merrill Lynch acquisition. “Regardless of the outcome of investigations into breaches of fiduciary duty, the real loss is that BoA only six months ago was a strong and valuable banking franchise.  If it had not quickly jumped into […]

College of Communication Dean Tom Fiedler on presidential race

Tom Fiedler, Dean of the College of Communication, appears on Reuters-TV. Speaking from the BU studio, Dean Fiedler discusses whether character attacks work in a presidential campaign.

CDS market probes

Law Professor Charles Whitehead, a securities-law expert now at BU Law after 20 years as an in-house counsel in international securities and banking, comments on CDS market probes: “The credit default swap market is a predictive market, meaning that CDS spreads tend to widen in advance of changes in the price of an issuer’s stocks. […]

Bailout pushing banking mergers

Professor Cornelius Hurley, director of the Graduate Program in Banking and Financial Law and its related Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law at the Boston University School of Law, offers commentary on how the bailout is now pushing banking mergers.   “Treasury is now concerned that its huge equity infusion will be used by […]

Feds/NY join in CDS trading probe

Law professor Tamar Frankel, an authority on securities law, corporate governance, and legal ethics, comments on the Feds/NY joining in the CDS trading probe: “Historically, Americans were deeply suspicious of government power. It is not by chance that American enforcement units have been so many and competed with each other. How come they have been […]