February 4, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Bank of America (and its then CEO and CFO) is being sued by New York’s attorney general for securities fraud for misleading shareholders and the government about BofA’s merger with Merrill Lynch. Law Professor Tamar Frankel, an authorities on securities law and legal ethics and author of “Trust and Honesty: America’s Business Culture at a […]
February 3, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Concerned it may lead to security breaches, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein wants to learn more about a CIA policy that allows agency employees to moonlight for private companies. But international relations Professor Arthur Hulnick, a 3-decade CIA veteran, says there’s no need to worry — any agency officers moonlighting are working on non-intelligence […]
February 3, 2010 at 12:45 pm
Planning to dial up a super pizza on Super Bowl Sunday? You may get a busy signal as the sales of pizzas increase by at least 30 percent, on average, in pizzerias across America, on the day of the big game. Keep in mind that a pizza with “everything” on it can add close to […]
February 2, 2010 at 5:08 pm
The problem isn’t that banks are too big; they’re just taking excessive risk. Ex-Federal Reserve Bank examiner Mark T. Williams, who teaches finance in the School of Management and is author of “Uncontrolled Risk” about the fall of Lehman Brothers, says in a Reuters commentary that any meaningful financial reform must address lending standards while tightening oversight and […]
February 2, 2010 at 4:25 pm
President Obama has proposed using $30 billion from the TARP bank bailout program to create a small-business lending fund to spur job growth. Law Professor Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law, said he has been suggesting such a fund but that bankers may be skeptical that it may come […]
February 2, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Apple’s ballyhooed new iPad (and other e-readers like Kindle and Nook) can eventually lighten the load of student backpacks. That’s good. But Sargent College Professor Karen Jacobs, who researches how such gagets challenge human capabilities, fears the touch-screen iPad may lead to some unintended harmful ergonomic problems. “In the case of the iPad, which has […]
February 2, 2010 at 11:40 am
The nominations for the 82nd Academy Awards are in! BU’s Paul Schneider, Chairman of the College of Communication Department of Film & Television and a member of the Directors Guild of America, shares his predictions for who may be going home with a statue on March 7th: “The Academy seems to have achieved one of […]
February 2, 2010 at 10:53 am
BU’s daily student newspaper The Daily Free Press reports on student’s reactions to Sargent Choice: “This year marks the fifth anniversary since Boston University dining halls began serving Sargent Choice options with each meal, and many, from nutrition advocates to students to dining services itself, say the program has been a success….”
February 1, 2010 at 4:04 pm
With international atomic energy officials still dickering with Iran over Iran’s uranium-enrichment program, international relations Professor Augustus Richard Norton, in a Q&A with BU Today, says that given the political realities in the United States it’s going to be difficult to deter the Iranians from what they’re doing. “If I were advising the president on […]
February 1, 2010 at 12:03 pm
GOP Congressional leaders, enboldened by their Senate win in Massachusetts, are pushing Democrats to start over on efforts to reform the healthcare system. In an opinion piece in Politico, history Professor Bruce Schulman says House Dems should take a page from FDR history on how Social Security was created and just pass the Senate bill. “Passing the […]
