August 31, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the X-Men are joining forces with Mickey, Minnie, and Pluto. Walt Disney Company’s $4 billion agreement to buy Marvel Entertainment will bring 5,000 Marvel characters under the Disney umbrella. Professor Bill Linsman, director of the BU-in-LA program, can talk about what the blending might mean. Contact Bill Linsman, 323-571-4535, linsman@bu.edu
August 31, 2009 at 10:57 am
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank plans legislation to subject the Federal Reserve to a “complete audit” without encroaching on the central bank’s monetary policy independence. He’s teaming with Texas Republican Ron Paul in the effort. Former Federal Reserve Bank examiner Mark T. Williams, who teaches finance in the School of Managment, can comment. […]
August 28, 2009 at 11:36 am
Even as the economy improves, the state of America’s banks is looking more precarious, with the FDIC adding 111 new lenders in the last quarter to its “sick list” of endangered banks. Robert R. Bench, a former deputy Comptroller of the Currency and now senior fellow at the BU School of Law’s Morin Center for Banking […]
August 27, 2009 at 11:11 am
With no shortage of potential hopefuls who might seek Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat, it appears the Mass. governor and legislature will amend the law to allow for an interim apointee pending a special election. Professor Fred Bayles, a former AP and USA Today reporter who directs the BU Statehouse journalism program, says it will […]
August 25, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Stars & Stripes reports that the Rendon Group PR firm is screening journalists who request to be “embedded” with U.S. combat troops in Afghanistan. The Pentagon acknowledges Rendon rates the reporters based on their prior coverage of the military, but insists they’re not rejecting embed requests based on negative coverage. Journalism Professor Bob Zelnick, a former […]
August 25, 2009 at 12:36 pm
President Obama says he is seeking stability at the Federal Reserve by nominating Ben Bernanke to a second term as chairman, which must be approved by the Senate. School of Law Professor Cornelius Hurley, a former counsel to the Fed Board of Governors and now director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law, […]
August 24, 2009 at 2:26 pm
Nokia, the world’s largest cell-phone maker, is getting back in the PC industry, announcing a new wireless netbook with a 10-inch screen running on Microsoft software. School of Management Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, head of the Information Systems Department, says Nokia is making sure it isn’t left out of the tablet/netbook segment, especially with Apple […]
August 24, 2009 at 10:50 am
Proctor & Gamble has agreed to sell its prescription drug business for $3.1 billion to the Irish pharmaceutical firm Warner Chilcott. School of Law Professor Kevin Outterson, an authority in pharma law and marketing, says the deal is evidence of further consolidation in the prescription drug industry. “P&G evidently decided they couldn’t compete at at […]
August 24, 2009 at 10:42 am
With experts still debating if the program will have had any significant positive environmental impact, the govenment’s “Cash for Clunkers” rebate program comes to an end with about a half million vehicles sold. School of Management Dean Lou Lataif, a former Ford executive, says the initiative had some positive value. Contact Lou Lataif, 617-353-2668, lelataif@bu.edu
August 21, 2009 at 11:32 am
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. reportedly has been meeting with major newspaper publishers nationwide about creating a consortium to charge for news distributed online and on portable devices. Journalism Department Chairman Lou Ureneck, an authority on the business of news, can discuss this latest proposal to wring revenue from Internet readers to help finance the cash-strapped […]
