DeansTalk - business management education

Alexander Hamilton and the dilemas of the eurozone - Guillermo de la Dehesa

www.GuillermoDelaDehesa.com

27/12/2012 Huffington Post in Spanish

Google Translated

Fortunately, crises as serious as the current one, end up imposing the need for a true union. If Europe does not unite, in 40 years there will be none of its Member States in the G8. It will be irrelevant.

"What Washington must do now" - Professor Michael Porter

Michael Porter, An eight-point plan to restore American competitiveness, The Economist, Nov 21st 2012

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2. Simplify the corporate tax code with lower statutory rates and no loopholes. Our corporate tax code is, as our colleague Mihir Desai puts it, the worst of all worlds, with the highest tax rate among OECD countries, but actual revenue collection is low due to loopholes and deductions. Companies respond by aggressive tax planning, seeking offshore tax havens, (See video on BBC, July 22, 2012, Tax havens: Super-rich 'hiding' at least $21tn, maybe $32tn, and www.taxjustice.net +OECD reports) and locating jobs abroad.

Catalonia: Map of Internal and External Exports, 1995-2010 - IESE Prof. Pankaj Ghemawat

Dada la escasez de datos en el debate sobre la #independencia, donde hay mucho en juego, actualizo mapas de comercio: ow.ly/eIV9Y

— Pankaj Ghemawat (@PankajGhemawat) October 24, 2012

Ghemawat Catalonia maps

Dean Paul Danos (Tuck): "Why Businesses Hire MBA Grads, Despite a Weak Economic Forecast", US News

U.S. News, July 6, 2012.

Paul Danos is dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

For the past three years, employment statistics have hit an all-time high here at Tuck. At top business schools across the country, these statistics usually reflect business optimism—at least in the sectors that hire our graduates. The stock market, too, during a four-year period, has been quite positive. Again, this can normally be viewed as a reflection of forward-looking optimism. 

But most economic prognosticators see a continuing dull economy indeed, and the last 12 months of macro-economic data reinforce their gloom. I believe that businesses are hiring young leaders from top MBA programs because of an optimism based on real business prospects and capabilities. These include the desire to build and expand, along with the notion that there will be increased political and policy hostility and deadlock.  

This presidential campaign provides a stark contrast on the business-friendliness scale with perceived end points in terms of regulatory and tax burdens being far apart. Uncertainty in the prospects for the government's level of business-friendliness blunts planning for growth, and even though business leaders individually see great prospects, they are held back by the real possibility of more oppressive government policies.

Dean Garth Saloner (Stanford GSB) and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the African Governance Initiative (AGI)

YouTube, 18 May 2012

GSB Dean Garth Saloner (20min40) and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair discussed the African Governance Initiative (AGI). Blair said that much-needed economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa cannot go forward without improvements in governance.

The AGI works in Liberia, Guinea, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.

The speech was sponsored by the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law; Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies; Center for African Studies; Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society; Stanford Association for International Development; Associated Students of Stanford University; and Stanford Speakers Bureau.

Related Link
Stanford Institute for Innovation in Developing Economies (SEED):http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/seed

Professor David Daokui Li (Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management) and Professor Yu Yongding

Professor Yu Yongding on Project Syndicate.

Yu Yongding, currently President of the China Society of World Economics, is a former member of the monetary policy committee of the Peoples' Bank of China and former Director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of World Economics and Politics.

 

 

Professor David Daokui Li on Wikipedia

David Daokui Li (Chinese: 李稻葵; pinyin: Lǐ Dàokúi) is a Chinese economist economist and the Director of the Center for China in the World Economy (CCWE) at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management and is the Mansfield Freeman Professor of Economics. He currently teaches courses on economic transition, corporate finance, international economics, and China's economy....He is a member of the 1985 inaugural class of the Tsinghua School of Economics and Management (Tsinghua SEM)..

Li Daokui is a part of a trio to replace Fan Gang, as academic members to the central bank’s monetary policy committee (PBOC Monetary Policy Committee)...

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"China could play key role in EU rescue", Financial Times, October 27, 2011.

“It is in China’s long-term and intrinsic interest to help Europe because they are our biggest trading partner but the chief concern of the Chinese government is how to explain this decision to our own people,” said Professor Li.

“Any mis-steps in helping Europe could cause problems with domestic public opinion – the Chinese people will watch very carefully what their own government does,” Prof Yu said. “European leaders also must have a clear plan of what to do and they must show China they have the political will as well as the support of their own people; if we see protests and chaos all the time, then China won’t have confidence in Europe’s political ability.

Professor Christina Romer(Berkeley) and Assoc. Dean Mathew Slaughter(Tuck) - calming market jitters (PBS video+transcript)

PBS Newshour, August 10, 2011

JUDY WOODRUFF: Today's plunge marked the fourth time in just over a week where the Dow Jones industrials have dropped by triple digits. Market volatility is at again near record levels.

We look at this and the larger picture with two people who have worked closely on economic policy. Christina Romer was the chair of the Council of Economic Advisers for President Obama until September 2010. She's a professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley. And Matthew Slaughter served on President George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers from 2005 to 2007. He's now associate dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. And we thank you both for being with us.

Christina Romer, to you first.

The scary roller-coaster ride on the stock market continued again today. How do you explain it?

CHRISTINA ROMER, University of California at Berkley: Well, I think, obviously, one of the things about the stock market is it's very hard to explain the ups and downs...