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What Jamal Khashoggi's Case Says about America's Values-Free Leadership - By Michael Posner
Great democracies advance their national interests by upholding their values. British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt exemplified this approach earlier this week when he warned Saudi Arabian Foreign Minster Adel al-Jubeir that “friendships depend on shared values.” The impetus for his comment was the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was last seen entering the Saudi Embassy in Istanbul last week. After speaking with the Saudi Foreign Minister, Hunt tweeted that “violence against journalists worldwide is going up and is a grave threat to freedom of expression.”
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
— Opinion
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Why Algorithms Alone Can't Make the Internet Safe - By Michael Posner
Major Internet companies today find themselves in the cross-hairs of European regulators and facing increased public distrust in Europe and the U.S. One reason is that the full scope of harmful content online has become more evident. Until recently, Facebook, Google, and Twitter sought to downplay the magnitude of their problems in this regard, arguing that the amount of hate speech and political disinformation online was relatively tiny, a minor inconvenience when compared to the overall volume and value of Internet communications.
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
— Opinion
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'Department Of Swagger' Fails First Test on Refugees - By Michael Posner
This week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a further retreat from U.S. leadership on refugee protection, reducing the cap on refugee admissions next year to 30,000. That’s down 80,000 from the last year of the Obama administration. Since the end of World War II, the U.S. has played a leading role protecting refugees, reflecting broad bipartisan support for policies that provided safe haven to those fleeing religious and political persecution.
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
— Opinion
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Use Your Everyday Privilege to Help Others - By Dolly Chugh
I often forget I am straight. I just don’t think about it much. When asked what I did this weekend, or when setting family photos on my desk at work, I have no reason to wonder if what I say will make someone uncomfortable, or lead to a “joke” at my expense, or cause a co-worker to suddenly think I am attracted to them. Our culture is set up for straight people like me to be ourselves with very little thought. But for some gay colleagues, a simple question about the weekend or a decision of how to decorate the workspace carries significant stress—how to act, who to trust, what to share.
—- Biography: Professor Dolly Chugh
- Department: Management and Organizations
— Opinion
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Backdrop for the Next Financial Crisis is Brewing - By Nouriel Roubini
As we mark the tenth anniversary of the global financial crisis, there have been plenty of postmortems examining its causes, its consequences and whether the necessary lessons have been learnt.
—- Biography: Professor Nouriel Roubini
- Department: Economics
— Opinion
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Why Gap Should Rethink its Business in Myanmar - By Michael Posner
Four years ago, Gap, the clothing giant, boldly announced it would begin garment production in Myanmar. Promising to apply “best practices” on human rights, a company spokesperson called Gap’s production agreement “a historic moment for Myanmar.” Today, the case for Gap’s continued presence in that country is much harder to justify.
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
— Opinion
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Google's Best Defense against Trump's Outbursts? Greater Transparency - By Michael Posner
President Donald Trump’s attack on Google has received a lot of attention over the past couple of days. But the outburst really is nothing new. It echoes a highly cynical conservative campaign to demonize Google, Twitter and Facebook as stealthy liberal agents seeking to suppress right-leaning views.
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
— Opinion
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Emerging Vulnerabilities in Emerging Economies - By A. Michael Spence
Just before the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered a financial crisis that would engulf the world economy, the Commission on Growth and Development published an assessment of emerging-economy growth strategies, aimed at drawing lessons from previous research and experience. Over a decade later, many – if not most – of those lessons remain unheeded.
—- Biography: Professor A. Michael Spence
- Department: Economics
— Opinion
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Scrap Quarterly Reporting - By Baruch Lev
Last Friday, President Trump asked the SEC to examine the elimination of quarterly financial reports. The President mentioned an executive (apparently Indra Nooyi, outgoing CEO of PepsiCo (PEP)) who told him that eliminating quarterly reporting will enhance executives’ long-term orientation, thereby increasing investments and jobs. A panacea. I believe terminating quarterly reports is the right move, but for the wrong reasons.
—- Biography: Professor Baruch Lev
- Department: Accounting
— Opinion
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Why Quarterly Reporting from Business Makes Sense - By Michael Posner
This morning President Trump directed the Security and Exchange Commission to explore extending financial reporting deadlines from three months to six. In a morning tweet, he said this suggestion came from top business leaders who told him that this “would allow greater flexibility & save money.” Indeed. But at a time when public confidence in all institutions, including business, is declining, this is exactly the wrong direction for government to go.
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
— Opinion
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Who Should See 'Crazy Rich Asians' - By Dolly Chugh
Do your Facebook friends offer to buy you movie tickets? One of mine did. After seeing an early screening of the movie Crazy Rich Asians, business strategist Jodi Chao made her friends an offer. “If this movie genuinely (!) wasn’t on your radar to catch while in theaters,” she typed, “I want you to go see it before Labor Day and I’d like to cover your ticket. Capping this at the first 5 of you (because I’m not a Crazy Rich Asian … yet).” I asked Jodi why she wanted people to see the movie, opening August 15 and based on the bestselling book by Kevin Kwan. From that conversation, here is my take on who should see Crazy Rich Asians.
—- Biography: Professor Dolly Chugh
- Department: Management and Organizations
— Opinion
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Twitter Leadership Fails the Infowars Test - By Michael Posner
This week several major Internet companies announced that they were taking down Infowars, Alex Jones’ inflammatory online platform. Notably absent from the list was Twitter. This is a case that is testing the core values of the major Internet providers and the practical applications of their community standards. And to date, Twitter is failing those tests.
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
— Opinion
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Why Google Should Stay Out of China - By Michael Posner
A decade ago, a group of Internet companies, civil society organizations, academics, and investors launched the Global Network Initiative (GNI), a collaborative effort to promote free expression and protect user privacy on the Internet. Google helped lead this effort and a parallel project devoted to developing a human rights framework for the Internet. In 2010, Google further demonstrated its leadership by making a principled decision to withdraw its search-engine services from China.
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
— Opinion
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The Fight Against Russian Disinformation - By Michael Posner
In 1822, James Madison wrote that “a popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or tragedy or perhaps both.” Operating in a much simpler world, Madison and the other architects of American democracy did a brilliant job in developing a constitutional model that guarantees a free press and supports accountable government-essential elements to the provision of “popular information.”
—- Biography: Professor Michael Posner
- Department: Center for Business and Human Rights
— Opinion
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Trump May Kill the Global Recovery - By Nouriel Roubini
How does the current global economic outlook compare to that of a year ago? In 2017, the world economy was undergoing a synchronized expansion, with growth accelerating in both advanced economies and emerging markets. Moreover, despite stronger growth, inflation was tame – if not falling – even in economies like the United States, where goods and labor markets were tightening.
—- Biography: Professor Nouriel Roubini
- Department: Economics
— Opinion