As reported in the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. will appoint a three-star general to Kabul, marking the first time since the seven-year war began that the U.S. will have two senior commanders in Afghanistan. Former head of the American Embassy in Kabul, Charles Dunbar, now a professor of international relations, is available for comment on the […]
Despite billions of taxpayer dollars poured into it to help revive the US economy, GM plans to add many of its new automaking jobs overseas under its restructuring. The Washington Post reports that the GM plan looks to double the number of cars it sells in the US that will be built Mexico, China, and South Korea. School […]
According to a recent Boston Globe article, the state’s highest court ruled that the law requiring GPS monitoring of people on probation for certain sex offenses applies only to offenders who have been placed on probation after being convicted of the crimes, not to offenders who are awaiting trial. “It’s not clear from the ruling that […]
As global health officals ponder “what if” scenarios over the mixing of the new H1N1 flu with bird flu that is endemic in Asia and/or regular flu in the southern hemisphere, researchers are grappling with new vaccine concerns and whether in the fall, a new flu strain combination will be more virulent. Alexander Ozonoff, a BU School of Public Health assistant professor of […]
Google acknowledges the FTC is asking about antitrust implications of the ties between the boards of Google and Apple. Though they share two directors and compete on cell-phone operating systems, browser software, and online video distribution, Google says there’s no antitrust there. School of Management Professor Michael Salinger, a former FTC official, and Law Professor Keith […]
With Boston Globe Newspaper Guild members still considering the final contract offer from owners at the New York Times, the Globe’s publisher is predicting more reductions but a future for New England’s largest paper. Meantime, sources say the Times is looking for a buyer. College of Communication Dean Tom Fiedler, a former executive editor of […]
With the release of results from the government’s “stress tests” on the nation’s largest financial institutes, 10 major banks must raise nearly $75 billion in capital. Former Fed bank examiner Mark T. Williams, who teaches at the School of Management, says, “The race is on now: Whoever gets to market first and has the most […]
Law Professor Cornelius Hurley, director of the Morin Center for Banking and Financial Law and former counsel to the Fed Board of Governors, looks beyond the banking “stress tests” to lessons learned. “Assuming the stress tests produced ‘material’ findings for the bank regulators (BofA’s $34 billion capital deficiency seems to be ‘material’) doesn’t this say […]
Law Professor Tamar Frankel, author of “Trust and Honesty: America’s Business Culture at a Crossroad,” says taxation is a reasonable tool to use to control corporations which are being given federal bailout money because they’ve become “too big to fail.” “Many wonder and worry about the mammoth banks and corporations that became ‘too big to […]
Battered women’s shelters, which historically experienced difficulty maintaining contact with abuse survivors after they leave, should consider using e-mail to stay in touch, according to Emily Rothman, assistant professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the School of Public Health. She led a study of abuse survivors in 11 Massachusetts domestic violence shelters and found that the abusers never hacked into their […]
