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Why Journalism Urgently Needs a Domestic Marshall Plan - By Michael Posner
This week a commission of prominent experts sounded an alarm about the precarious state of the news media in the U.S. and the resultant danger to our democracy. They rightly emphasized that trust in the news media is at an all-time low and that a changing business environment has left local newspapers in dire straits. In response, they are proposing a series of practical recommendations aimed at strengthening traditional media companies and urging new digital platforms to accept significantly greater responsibility for their business conduct.
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
— Opinion
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The Truth about Rosa Parks and Why it Matters to Your Diversity Initiative - By Dolly Chugh
Mind blown. It was like when I found out who Luke Skywalker’s father was or the Wizard of Oz was. I felt the same way when I read The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by award-winning historian Jeanne Theoharis. This rigorously and vigorously researched biography invites the reader to follow Parks' story as it really unfolded. In doing so, Theoharis also invites the reader to consider why this more fascinating true story is told far less often than the children's book version which most of us know (a topic she further explores in her latest book A More Beautiful and Terrible History and through a gold mine of teaching resources for educators). February 4 would have been Parks’ 106th birthday. If you believe in what she did and why she did it, it is time you knew who she really was.
—- Biography: Professor Dolly Chugh
- Department: Management and Organizations
— Opinion
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Why the Davos Move of Major Global Companies on LGBTI Rights is so Important - By Michael Posner
There are few human rights issues in the U.S. on which public attitudes have changed more quickly and greater progress has been achieved than those relating to sexual orientation and gender identity. Though initial progress was slow, over the last 20 years, advances have been swift and dramatic.
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
— Opinion
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Why the UK Government Needs to Do More to Combat Modern Slavery - By Michael Posner
More than 35 million people around the world are subject to modern-day slavery, a quarter of them children. Victims include women who are trafficked for prostitution or forced marriage and people coerced into bonded or forced labor. In recent years, there has been a growing international effort to persuade governments to address modern slavery more aggressively, including by holding companies legally accountable for abuses in their global supply chains. This initiative has been led by organizations like Focus on Labor Exploitation (FLEX), Anti-Slavery International, and KnowTheChain, and it has been supported by such organizations as the Freedom Fund and Humanity United.
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
— Opinion
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Five Myths About Globalization - By Steven A. Altman
While world leaders converged on Davos, Switzerland, this past week to discuss “Globalization 4.0” at the World Economic Forum, President Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May stayed home to deal with globalization-related crises: a government shutdown over Trump’s demand for a border wall and Parliament’s rejection of May’s Brexit deal. Meanwhile, U.S.-China trade tensions continued to roil financial markets, and trade conflicts contributed to another downgrade of global growth forecasts. The political crossfire over globalization has propagated a raft of myths. Here are five of the most prevalent.
—- Biography: Senior Research Scholar Steve Altman
- Department: Center for the Globalization of Education and Management
— Opinion
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Hedge Funds and Newspapers: a Bad Mix - By Michael Posner
Two news stories this week captured conflicting forces at play in the struggle to preserve journalism. On the positive side, Facebook announced that it will invest more than $300 million over the next three years to help support local news organizations globally. But while Facebook was promising to help smaller news organizations “grow and thrive,” the same sort of local outlets came under existential threat from another direction.
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
— Opinion
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Trump vs. the Economy - By Nouriel Roubini
Financial markets have finally awoken to the fact that Donald Trump is US president. Given that the world has endured two years of reckless tweets and public statements by the world’s most powerful man, the obvious question is, What took so long?
—- Biography: Professor Nouriel Roubini
- Department: Economics
— Opinion
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How Inequality Undermines Economic Performance - By A. Michael Spence
About a decade ago, the Commission on Growth and Development (which I chaired) published a report that attempted to distill 20 years of research and experience in a wide range of countries into lessons for developing economies. Perhaps the most important lesson was that growth patterns that lack inclusiveness and fuel inequality generally fail.
—- Biography: Professor A. Michael Spence
- Department: Economics
— Opinion
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The Competitive Landscape of AI Startups - By Robert Seamans
Big tech companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into research on artificial intelligence (AI). Can small startups hope to enter AI markets and compete effectively?
—- Biography: Professor Robert Seamans
- Department: Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
— Opinion
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How McKinsey & Co Fails as a Global Leader - By Michael Posner
Few companies in any industry have built a reputation for leadership that McKinsey & Company has in the world of management consulting. Each year, the best and brightest students from the most prestigious colleges and business schools compete for the privilege of joining the firm. They do so knowing that they will receive superior training, work on cutting-edge issues with top global corporations and governments, and be able to add the McKinsey name to their resumes.
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
— Opinion
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Why We Should Care About Human Rights: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70 - By Michael Posner
On December 10, the United Nations will mark the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In an era of spreading nationalism and gross violations in places like Yemen, Myanmar, South Sudan and Venezuela, it is fair to ask whether the Universal Declaration and the global human rights movement have improved the human condition. And given these contemporary challenges, there’s the further question of where we go from here.
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
— Opinion
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How PwC's Tim Ryan Learned to Talk About Race (and How You Can, Too) - By Dolly Chugh
On December 7, 2018, companies across the United States will engage in a “Day of Understanding.” The specific activities of the day will vary from company to company, with the shared goal of striving for workplaces that are “trusting places for having complex, and sometimes difficult, conversations about diversity and inclusion." The companies are all part of CEO Action, a coalition of more than 500 CEOs led by Tim Ryan, chairman of PwC United States.
—- Biography: Professor Dolly Chugh
- Department: Management and Organizations
— Opinion
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Hungary Closes a University: Lessons on the Creeping Decline of Democracy - By Michael Posner
On Monday, the Central European University was forced out of Hungary, the latest victim of Prime Minster Victor Orban’s increasingly authoritarian rule. Founded in 1991 by Hungarian-born financier and philanthropist George Soros, the CEU has become one of the leading universities in Central Europe, with world-class programs in politics and international studies. In recent years, Orban has targeted the CEU and Soros as part of his broader efforts to undermine democratic institutions in Hungary.
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
— Opinion
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The Digital Key to Inclusive Growth - By A. Michael Spence
Some observers interpret the trade war that US President Donald Trump has initiated with China as a tough negotiating tactic, aimed at forcing the Chinese to comply with World Trade Organization rules and Western norms of doing business. Once China meets at least some of Trump’s demands, this view holds, mutually beneficial economic engagement will be restored. But there are many reasons to doubt such a benign scenario. The long China-US trade war is really a manifestation of a fundamental clash of systems.
—- Biography: Professor A. Michael Spence
- Department: Economics
— Opinion
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Government Can Do More to Support Science and Innovation - By Paul Romer
The U.S. government is divided and so are the people. But perhaps we can all agree that the economic growth of the 20th century, driven by robust markets and technological innovation, was good for everyone. The government can do more than most policy makers realize to sustain this long-term, broadly shared growth through investment in science.
—- Biography: Professor Paul Romer
- Department: Economics
— Opinion
