March 4, 2009 at 10:32 am
Journalism Professor Robert Zelnick, former ABC News correspondent, a Hoover Institute fellow, and author of “Israeli Unilateralism: Beyond Gaza,” says Obama should build on Bush’s Middle East progress. With Secretary of State Clinton in the region, Zelnick suggests in the Christian Science Monitor how this can be done. “If (U.S. special envoys George Mitchell and Dennis Ross) can […]
March 3, 2009 at 11:06 am
School of Management Professor Stephen Davidson, author of the soon-to-be-published “In Urgent Need of Reform: Saving the U.S. Healthcare System”, says that rather than resisting it, insurers could make the drive toward health-care reform an opportunity by transforming themselves into real managed-care organizations. “They can create or contract with group practices, invest in information technology, analyze […]
December 3, 2008 at 6:53 pm
There have been many efforts to integrate various social-networking platforms into a seamless community. Some were introduced by the sites themselves, such as Facebook Connect. Others are third-party middleware like Power.com, launching this week in the U.S. College of Communication Professor Hyun-Yeul Lee, a technology expert in the Department of Mass Communication, says the advantage in the effort to align the social-network stars likely will […]
November 30, 2008 at 3:58 pm
School of Law Professor Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial law and a former counsel to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, says the government’s bailout of Citigroup needs more oversight than initially planned. “Once again, the Treasury has opened its coffers to bail out a private institution without requiring […]
November 30, 2008 at 3:51 pm
School of Management finance Professor Mark Williams, a risk-management and former Federal Reserve Bank examiner, commends President-elect Obama’s introduction of the next administration’s new economic team. “President-elect Obama did a nice job of conveying crisply that while he cannot step on the field as a quarterback until January 20th, he is still quickly assembling a top […]
November 26, 2008 at 8:03 am
School of Management finance Professor Mark Williams, a former Federal Reserve Bank examiner, feels strongly that the Credit Default Swap (CDS) market definitely shares some blame, but it isn’t justified to make it the latest scapegoat responsible for the economic meltdown. Nonetheless, there is a crying need for regulation of the CDS market and creation […]
November 20, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Since January 2007, the value of the New York Times Co.’s New England Media Group, which includes the Boston Globe and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, has dropped by $980 million. As the Boston Globe’s financial woes worsen, speculation is rampant about the possibility that someone will step up to buy the region’s largest paper […]
November 20, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Law Professor Kevin Outterson, an authority on food and drug law and director of the school’s Health Law Program, says the drug companies likely will fight the ruling as its impact spreads to other states. “While this is a victory for New Hampshire, the Court of Appeals skirted several of the important Constitutional issues raised […]
November 20, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Congress is considering a bailout for the “Big Three” U.S. auto makers. School of Management Dean Lou Lataif, a former Ford senior executive, says if the federal government chooses to become a lender of last resort, its loan could come with conditions: — the government loan takes precedence over all other creditors; — the loan […]
November 20, 2008 at 12:58 pm
With the Ron Howard film “Frost/Nixon” opening nationwide, BU journalism professor Bob Zelnick reflects on his role as a producer hired by British talk-show host David Frost for those historic interviews with the disgraced former president. “Before each one of them, I would marshal all the material we had, digest it, and try and anticipate […]
