Category: Business

May 18, 2010

Kenneth Posner: Smaller "Black Swans" Are Around Us

TheStreet has been featuring Kenneth Posner’s new book Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility and his explanation of how “black swans” can be detected. The concept of a “Black Swan,” was popularized...

May 4, 2010

Edward Hess on false gods and Wall Street's Future

“Bankers are not theologians (and neither, it should be said, are business professors), but as new revelations continue to be made about the devastating effects of dubious instruments concocted by financial alchemists, the fair question that needs to be asked...

April 23, 2010

Kenneth Posner and Edward Hess on Goldman Sachs and Financial Reform

In separate articles, Kenneth Posner and Edward Hess, two authors recently published by Columbia Business School Publishing, applied the arguments of their books to some of the most pressing and controversial issues in finance and business. First up is Kenneth...

April 13, 2010

Ken Posner on Fannie and Freddie

Ken Posner, author of of Stalking the Black Swan: Research and Decision Making in a World of Extreme Volatility, recently appeared on Yahoo Finance’s Tech Ticker to discuss among other things about how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac continue to...

April 8, 2010

The Mutual Fund Industry — an interview with the authors

The Mutual Fund Industry: Competition and Investor Welfare, by R. Glenn Hubbard, Michael F. Koehn, Stanley Ornstein, Marc Van Audenrode, and Jimmy Royer, was recently published by Columbia Business School Publishing. The following is an interview with Stanley Ornstein and...

April 2, 2010

Edward Hess talks about Smart Growth on Business Insider, Part 2

In the first part of his interview with Business Insider , Edward Hess the author of Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing Risks, questioned the conventional view that growth is necessarily good for business. In the second half...

March 29, 2010

Kenneth Posner on Hunting for the next "Black Swan"

The Black Swan Theory is used to explain hard-to-predict, rare events, but how should investors cope, react, and even try to anticipate such events? In an op-ed in Institutional Investor, Ken Posner, author of Stalking the Black Swan: Research and...

March 26, 2010

Edward Hess talks to Business Insider about Smart Growth

In an interview with Business Insider (see below), Edward Hess, author of Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing Risks, challenges Wall Street’s accepted wisdom about growth. Hess argues that growth is not always good; bigger is not always...

March 15, 2010

Edward Hess on Smart Growth

Edward Hess discusses his new book Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth. For more on the book, you can also read an interview in which Hess challenges conventional thinking regarding growth and business. From...

February 8, 2010

Do bailouts work?

In The Great Recession of 2008 and the Sordid Historiography of the Great Depression, an article just published on the History News Network, Robert E. Wright, editor of Bailouts: Public Money, Profit, argues that policymakers’ and scholars’ misinterpretations of the...

February 4, 2010

Edward Hess on Toyota and the dangers of growth

Toyota and its massive recall has been very much in the news lately but what can be learned from their experience? This is the question that Edward D. Hess takes up in a recent piece in Forbes, entitled Bigger Is...

January 29, 2010

Glenn Hubbard has tea with The Economist

R. Glenn Hubbard continues his discussion of The Aid Trap: Hard Truths About Ending Poverty. He was recently invited by The Economist to discuss ways in which a new Marshall Plan can help revitalize the economy of Africa and poor...