April 24, 2009 at 2:15 pm
With Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. ousting the MySpace founders in an effort to transform the TV/movie/newspaper conglomerate into a new-media titan, College of Communication Professor T. Barton Carter says it’s about money and popularity. “This illustrates two major issues facing many Internet ventures. One is finding a way to translate popularity to revenue, and many of the […]
April 23, 2009 at 4:40 pm
College of Communication Professor Peter Morrissey, a veteran reputation-management expert whose clients included Johnson & Johnson during the Tylenol case, says Craigslist managing its reputation in light of the “Craigslist murder” case is tricky. “As far as Craigslist’s reputation goes, they need to be seen as being on the side of the law. They are […]
April 22, 2009 at 3:15 pm
School of Management Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, chairman of the Information Systems Department, says Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems after Sun’s talks with IBM broke down could be an industry-leading move. “Oracle has been quietly developing and refining its capabilities for integrating acquisitions – especially PeopleSoft, Siebel, and BEA Systems. These gave Oracle an edge in […]
April 22, 2009 at 11:08 am
School of Management Professor Kathy Kram, an authority on human resources, says this year’s national Administrative Professionals’ Day should make bosses be all the more appreciative of admin in a time of recessionary downsizing. “After all the necessary downsizing, those who are left in administrative professional roles are essential. For admin, think about how to […]
April 21, 2009 at 4:52 pm
With word of federal probes under way into alleged fraud involving banking bailout funds, School of Law Professor Tamar Frankel, an authority on securities law and legal ethics, says those receiving TARP funds should be subject to ongoing examinations. “‘It’s the culture, stupid.’ Law not only limits innovations, it also controls competition on innovative antisocial […]
April 17, 2009 at 11:07 am
With eBay planning to shed itself of Skype with an IPO, School of Management Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, chairman of the Information Systems Department, says it’s clear that the Skype acquisition has not paid off for eBay which now has some hard decisions to make. “Now eBay is faced with tough choices: (1) a spin-out […]
April 16, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Law Professor Kevin Outterson, director of the Health Law Program, says big pharma giants GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer combining their HIV-drug business should be good for the companies and for patients around the globe. “The joint venture will allow GSK and Pfizer to coordinate antiretroviral-drug research, which will both lower R&D costs and reduce competition between […]
April 16, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Sports journalism Professor Frank Shorr, director of the Buston University Sports Institute, says fans will miss Hall of Fame coach John Madden as he retires from the NFL broadcast booth. “John Madden will always have a special place in the hearts of New England football fans. With his hair flowing and arms raised, what Patriot […]
April 16, 2009 at 10:54 am
With New York Governor Paterson introducing a same-sex marriage bill before that state’s legislature, Law Professor Linda McClain, an authority on family law and policy, says New York lawmakers may be pressured by other states moving quickly on this front. “Is this peer pressure likely to have an effect ? Now that other lawmaking bodies are […]
April 15, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Robert Bench, senior fellow at the School of Law’s Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law and a former deputy Comptroller of the Currency, questions whether results should be made public of “stress tests” being run on the nation’s 16 largest banks. “The U.S. government never has disclosed the results of its safety and soundness […]
