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Timothy Massad is currently a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown Law School and a consultant on financial regulatory and fintech issues. Massad served as Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2014-2017. Under his leadership, the agency implemented the Dodd Frank reforms of the over-the-counter swaps market and harmonized many aspects of cross-border regulation, including reaching a landmark agreement with the European Union on clearinghouse oversight. The agency also declared virtual currencies to be commodities, introduced reforms to address automated trading and strengthened cybersecurity protections. Previously, Mr. Massad served as the Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that capacity, he oversaw the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the principal U.S. governmental response to the 2008 financial crisis. Massad was a partner in the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP. His practice included corporate finance, derivatives and advising boards of directors. Massad was also one of a small group of lawyers who drafted the original ISDA standard agreements for swaps.Howell Jackson is the James S. Reid, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His research interests include financial regulation, consumer financial protection, securities regulation, and federal budget policy. He has served as a consultant to the United States Treasury Department, the United Nations Development Program, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. He frequently consults with government agencies and congressional committees on issues related to financial regulation. From 2023 to 2024, he was a Senior Adviser to the National Economic Council.   Since 2005, Professor Jackson has been a trustee of College Retirement Equities Fund (CREF).  He has also served as a director of Commonwealth, a non-profit dedicated to strengthening financial opportunities for low and moderate-income consumers. At Harvard University, Professor Jackson has served as Senior Adviser to the President and Acting Dean of Harvard Law School. Before joining the Harvard Law School faculty in 1989, Professor Jackson was a law clerk for Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall and practiced law in Washington, D.C. Professor Jackson received his J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Harvard University in 1982 and a B.A. from Brown University in 1976.Ralph Ranalli of the HKS Office of Communications and Public Affairs is the host, producer, and editor of HKS PolicyCast. A former journalist, public television producer, and entrepreneur, he holds an BA in political science from UCLA and a master's in journalism from Columbia University.Scheduling and logistical support for PolicyCast is provided by Lilian Wainaina.Design and graphics support is provided by Laura King. Web design and social media promotion support is provided by Catherine Santrock and Natalie Montaner. Editorial support is provided by Nora Delaney and Robert O'Neill .  

This week, we chat with Courtney Powell! Courtney is COO and Managing Partner at 500 Global, tasked with helping the firm scale globally and explore new opportunities across markets. She is responsible for operations across the team to pursue 500 Global's mission of uplifting people and economies through entrepreneurship.She is also on the advisory council of Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government supporting more effective interactions between the public and private sectors for the public good. Her ties to 500 Global go back to 2012, when she founded PublikDemand, a member of Batch 4 in 500's Global Accelerator Program. She went on to become CEO of Agent Pronto, one of the largest real estate agent referral services in North America, which was ultimately acquired by Fidelity National Title Group.Most recently, Courtney was the Head of Corporate Development at Keller Williams, the largest real estate franchise in the world. During her tenure, she established the company's first corporate innovation program, and worked with Keller Capital to invest and acquire tech companies in the real estate space.Courtney was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2012, received the Twilio Doer Award in 2013, and became a Google Business Leader in 2015. She attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she studied French and Corporate Communication.Follow Us!Courtney Powell: @CourtneyPowell500GlobalVC: @500GlobalVCErica Wenger: @erica_wengerDear Twentysomething: @deartwentysomething

Current events and policy will determine inflation levels and interest rates that effect our broader economy and Real Estate values and investments. Volatility around tariffs and other decisions will make a significant impact that effects all sectors of our society. Greg Makoff, Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, and author of Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring, has multiple decades of experience in the world of debt and how it impacts societies and individuals. Greg sees our current political environment and lack of a clear strategy as a major threat to our economic well-being. 

Danielle Allen and Mark Fagan say that when tested, thoughtfully deployed, and regulated AI actually can help governments serve citizens better. Sure, there is no shortage of horror stories these days about the intersection of AI and government—from a municipal chatbot that told restaurant owners it was OK to serve food that had been gnawed by rodents to artificial intelligence police tools that misidentify suspects through faulty facial recognition. And now the Trump administration and Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE say they are fast-tracking the use of AI to root out government waste and fraud, while making public virtually no details about what tools they are using or how they'll be deployed. But Allen and Fagan, say that while careless deployment creates risks like opening security holes, exacerbating inefficiencies, and automating flawed decision-making, AI done the right way can help administrators and policymakers make better and smarter decisions, and can make governments more accessible and responsive to the citizens they serve. They also say we need to reorient our thinking from AI being a replacement for human judgement to a partnership model, where each brings its strengths to the table. Danielle Allen is an HKS professor and the founder of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation. Mark Fagan is a lecturer in public policy and faculty chair of the Delivering Public Services section of the Executive Education Program at HKS. They join PolicyCast host Ralph Ranalli to explain the guidelines, guardrails, and principles that can help government get AI right. Policy Recommendations:Danielle Allen's Policy Recommendations:* Support the "people's bid" for TikTok and generally promote an alternative, pro-social model for social media platforms.* Establish AI offices in state governments: Create offices that use AI to enhance openness, accountability, and transparency in government.Mark Fagan's Policy Recommendations:* Implement "sandbox" spaces for regulatory experimentation that allow organizations to test different policy ideas in a controlled environment to see what works.* Adopt a risk-based regulatory approach similar to the EU that categorize AI regulations based on risk levels, with clear guidelines on high-risk activities where AI use is prohibited versus those where experimentation is allowed. Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University. She is a professor of political philosophy, ethics, and public policy and director of the Democratic Knowledge Project and of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation. She is also a seasoned nonprofit leader, democracy advocate, national voice on AI and tech ethics, and author. A past chair of the Mellon Foundation and Pulitzer Prize Board, and former dean of humanities at the University of Chicago, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Philosophical Society. Her many books include the widely acclaimed Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown v Board of Education;  Our Declaration: a reading of the Declaration of Independence in defense of equality; Cuz: The Life and Times of Michael A.; Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus; and Justice by Means of Democracy. She writes a column on constitutional democracy for the Washington Post. Outside the University, she is a co-chair for the Our Common Purpose Commission and Founder and President for Partners in Democracy, where she advocates for democracy reform to create greater voice and access in our democracy, and to drive progress towards a new social contract that serves and includes us all. She holds Ph.Ds from Harvard University in government and from King's College, University of Cambridge, in classics; master's degrees from Harvard University in government and King's College, University of Cambridge in classics; and an AB from Princeton in classics.Mark Fagan is a lecturer in public policy and former senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. He teaches Operations Management, Service Delivery via Systems Thinking and Supply Chain Management, and Policy Design and Delivery in the degree program. In executive education, he is the faculty chair for Delivering Public Services: Efficiency, Equity and Quality. In another program, he teaches strategy and cross boundary collaboration. The focus of his research is on the role of regulation in competitive markets. He is presently spearheading an initiative at the Taubman Center for State and Local Government that examines the policy and associated regulatory impacts of autonomous vehicles. He leads efforts to catalyze policy making through Autonomous Vehicle Policy Scrums, cross sector policy design sessions hosted by governments from Boston to Buenos Aries to Toronto. Fagan earned a Masters Degree in City and Regional Planning at Harvard University and a BA at Bucknell University.Ralph Ranalli of the HKS Office of Communications and Public Affairs is the host, producer, and editor of HKS PolicyCast. A former journalist, public television producer, and entrepreneur, he holds an BA in political science from UCLA and a master's in journalism from Columbia University.Scheduling and logistical support for PolicyCast is provided by Lilian Wainaina. Design and graphics support is provided by Laura King and the OCPA Design Team. Web design and social media promotion support is provided by Catherine Santrock and Natalie Montaner of the OCPA Digital Team. Editorial support is provided by Nora Delaney and Robert O'Neill of the OCPA Editorial Team.

Episode 4: Bond Beats In this episode of Bond Beats, Cecil Quillen (partner) and Erin McKeown (managing associate) welcome Gregory Makoff, a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and an expert on sovereign debt management. Together, we discuss key aspects of New York's proposed legislative reforms, their implications for low-income countries, and the broader impact on international capital markets. Gregory also gives insights from his recent book, “Default: The Landmark Court Battle Over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring”, which chronicles Argentina's restructuring litigation in the New York courts.    To listen to all episodes in the Bond Beats series, visit our website.

Episode 4: Bond Beats In this episode of Bond Beats, Cecil Quillen (partner) and Erin McKeown (managing associate) welcome Gregory Makoff, a senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and an expert on sovereign debt management. Together, we discuss key aspects of New York's proposed legislative reforms, their implications for low-income countries, and the broader impact on international capital markets. Gregory also gives insights from his recent book, “Default: The Landmark Court Battle Over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring”, which chronicles Argentina's restructuring litigation in the New York courts.    To listen to all episodes in the Bond Beats series, visit our website.

As artificial intelligence reshapes our world at an unprecedented pace, the United States is being pressured to act. However, with Congress failing to pass meaningful AI legislation despite introducing over 100 bills, we face mounting challenges in governing this transformative technology. Paulo Carvão from Harvard’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government shares how, moving forward, the interplay between state initiatives, executive actions, and legislative gridlock will all influence how we'll shape AI's future in our democracy. 

This week on The Reorg Primary View, Gregory Makoff, senior fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and author of Default: The Landmark Court Battle Over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring, talks with Reorg's Simon Schatzberg about his view on recent proposed legislation governing sovereign debt in New York state. And as always, we also bring you our weekly summary of interesting developments in the restructuring world as well as a preview of what's on tap for this week. For more information on our latest events and webinars, visit reorg.com/resources/events-and-webinars/ Sign up for our weekly newsletter, Reorg on the Record: reorg.com/resources/reorg-on-the-record We're looking for feedback to improve the podcast experience! Please share your thoughts by taking the survey:https://www.research.net/r/Reorg_podcast_survey

Willy was joined by Gregory Makoff, a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and an expert on sovereign debt management. He previously worked as a banker specializing in debt restructuring, advised the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and recently authored a book, Default: The Landmark Court Battle over Argentina's $100 Billion Debt Restructuring. He and Willy discussed the details of Argentina's decades-long sovereign debt litigation, the U.S. financial situation and what we can learn from Argentina to prevent a national crisis, the negative fiscal impact of the growing partisan divide, the U.S. economy's influence on global debt, and so much more. Watch or listen to the replay. If you have any comments or questions, please reach out to your main Walker & Dunlop point of contact. We are all available to answer questions and provide assistance. Additionally, if you have topics you would like covered during one of our future webcasts, we would be happy to take your suggestions.

Yascha Mounk and Larry Summers also discuss the promise and perils of artificial intelligence. Larry Summers is an economist, the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School, and a member of the board of directors of OpenAI. Summers is the former President of Harvard University, the former Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton, and was a director of the National Economic Council under Barack Obama.  In this week's conversation, Yascha Mounk and Larry Summers discuss how universities can re-commit to pursuing truth and protecting academic freedom; how current economic indicators contrast with how many people actually experience the economy; and how Biden can improve his odds for re-election. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: podcast@persuasion.community  Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Interview recorded - 1st of May, 2023On todays episode of the WTFinance podcast I had the pleasure of welcoming Sir Paul Tucker. Paul spent more than 3 decades in Central Banking, culminating in being the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. He is also the author of the recently released book “Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order”.During our conversation we spoke about the threat of a global fracturing, why China is unlikely to change, what a China/US split would look like and how Central Banking could change in the future. I hope you enjoy! 0:00 - Introduction 1:05 - Influence for writing the book?2:35 - What was the previous global order and why does China want to change it?6:35 - Why was China conflict on Paul's radar?8:55 - Were Western politicians naive about China?13:35 - Document 9 of the Chinese Communist Party18:40 - Russia Central Bank reserves frozen20:35 - Why is WTO and other international organisations brittle and how could China change these organisation?24:15 - What would a US/China split look like?29:05 - Best case scenario?31:40 - How have central banks changed in the last decade?39:45 - How should banks be saved?42:15 - How can central banks recover their trust?53:15 - Why Central Banks need to be tougher on shadow banks?57:50 - One message to takeaway from our conversation?Sir Paul Tucker is a Research Fellow of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School.He is the author of Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State (2018). Described as “masterful” by Dani Rodrik and “profoundly important” by Larry Summers. His new book, GLOBAL DISCORD: VALUES AND POWER IN A FRACTURED WORLD ORDER, due out in FALL 2022, is about the geopolitics and legitimacy of the international economic and legal system. Both books are at the interface of political economy and political philosophy.Tucker spent more than three decades in central banking, occupying senior positions in the international policymaking world, and was knighted by Britain in 2014.From 2016 to 2021, he was the chair of the Systemic Risk Council, the independent body of former top central bankers, government officials and financial experts dedicated to a stable financial system.As Deputy Governor at the Bank of England from 2009 to October 2013, he was at the centre of efforts to contain the financial crisis and to reshape the international regulatory framework for financial stability. Former Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King said, “Paul probably understands more about central banking than anyone else. He knows about every aspect of that arcane art and now he [is] free to tell the rest of the world what happens behind those high walls.”At the Bank of England, he was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Financial Policy Committee (vice chair), Prudential Regulatory Authority Board (vice chair), and Court of Directors. During his thirty-plus years there, he led staff teams on monetary policy strategy, market operations, and financial stability, as well as working as a bank supervisor. He had secondments to an investment bank and to Hong Kong, where he helped reform their securities markets and regulation following the 1987 stock market crash.Sir Paul Tucker: Website - http://paultucker.me/Book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Global-Discord-Values-Power-Fractured/dp/0691229317/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=3426bdbe-6afd-42ab-8c93-2c0288832a5aWTFinance - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wtfinancee/Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/67rpmjG92PNBW0doLyPvfniTunes - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wtfinance/id1554934665?uo=4Twitter - https://twitter.com/AnthonyFatseas

April 6, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University A Hoover History Working Group Seminar with Sir Paul Tucker. Paul Tucker will be sharing his new book, Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order, which considers the geopolitics and legitimacy of the international economic and legal system. The book develops an analysis of the history and future of the international order from the perspective of incentives-values compatibility, that is, the connection between self-enforcing equilibria and history-dependent legitimation principles. Using this framework, the book identifies vulnerabilities and design flaws in today's international monetary order, trade system, investment order, and international financial system. April 6, 2023 Hoover Institution | Stanford University A Hoover History Working Group Seminar with Sir Paul Tucker. Paul Tucker will be sharing his new book, Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order, which considers the geopolitics and legitimacy of the international economic and legal system. The book develops an analysis of the history and future of the international order from the perspective of incentives-values compatibility, that is, the connection between self-enforcing equilibria and history-dependent legitimation principles. Using this framework, the book identifies vulnerabilities and design flaws in today's international monetary order, trade system, investment order, and international financial system. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Sir Paul Tucker is a Research Fellow of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was formerly the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, sitting on its monetary policy, financial stability, and prudential policy committees. Internationally, he was a member of the G20 Financial Stability Board, chairing its group on resolving too-big-to-fail groups; and a director of the Bank for International Settlements, chairing its Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems. He was knighted in 2014. He is the author of Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State (2018), which charts how the extraordinary power of unelected central bankers and regulators needs to be structured and checked in the interest of democratic legitimacy. His other activities include being a director at Swiss Re, president of the UK's National Institute for Economic and Social Research, a senior fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard, a member of the advisory board of the Yale Program on Financial Stability, and a governor of the Ditchley Foundation.

Sir Paul Tucker, research fellow at The Harvard Kennedy School and former deputy governor of The Bank of England, joins Forward Guidance to discuss ideas from his latest book, “Global Discord: Values And Power In A Fractured World Order.”  Tucker tells Jack Farley that China's growing economic might and rejection of liberal values poses a challenge to the U.S.' role as global hegemon, and he details ways to reinvigorate international cooperation during the current period of geopolitical strife. Tucker shares his views on the recent turmoil in the banking system, weighing on Silicon Valley Bank, Credit Suisse, and the acute need for bank resolution that can maintain financial stability while winding down ailing banks. Tucker and Farley also discuss concepts such as the Triffin Dilemma, the offshore (“Eurodollar”) dollar system, and central banks' role as lenders of last resort.  __ “Global Discord” from Princeton Press: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691229317/global-discord Global Discord on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Global-Discord-Values-Power-Fractured/dp/0691229317 __ About Paul Tucker: http://paultucker.me/resources/ About Tucker's work at The Harvard Kennedy School: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/about/fellows/research-fellows#sir_paul_tucker More about today's guest: For over thirty years, Sir Paul Tucker was a central banker, and a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from 2002. He was Deputy Governor from 2009 to late 2013, including serving on the Financial Policy Committee (vice chair) and Prudential Regulatory Authority Board (vice chair). He was knighted by Britain in 2014 for his services to central banking. Internationally, he was a member of the steering committee of the G20 Financial Stability Board, and chaired its Committee on the Resolution of Cross-Border Banks to solve “too big to fail”. Tucker was a member of the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements, and was chair of the Basel Committee for Payment and Settlement Systems from April 2012. After leaving central banking, Tucker was chair of the Systemic Risk Council from December 2015 to August 2021. He now writes at the intersection of political economy and political philosophy as research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. In addition to “Global Discord,” Tucker is also the author of “ Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State” (2018). __ Follow Jack Farley on Twitter https://twitter.com/JackFarley96 Follow Forward Guidance on Twitter https://twitter.com/ForwardGuidance Follow Blockworks on Twitter https://twitter.com/Blockworks_ __ Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (00:55) The Rise Of China Will Have Immense Consequences On A Global Scale (04:44) Shortcomings of Trade Policy and Enforcement (10:41) Downsides of U.S.' Trade Deficit (20:18) The Bretton Woods Regime (21:59) The Triffin Dilemma (26:32) The Eurodollar System (27:31) The Fed's Swap Lines In 2008 (28:49) Importance of Multi-Disciplinary Understanding For Policymakers (31:17) The Debt Ceiling (21:27) Thucydides' Trap (25:57) The Contest Between China and The U.S. Is "Everywhere" (39:26) Document 9 of The Chinese Communist Party (45:29) Inflation (49:37) Regional Bank Failure In The U.S. (55:43) The Takeover Of Credit Suisse By UBS (01:02:49) Defining A "Bailout" As A Use Of Taxpayer Money (01:07:09) Bagehot's Dictum (01:15:31) Credit Suisse Contingent Convertible ("CoCo") Bonds (01:17:55) Tying Geopolitical And Banking Together __ Disclaimer: Nothing discussed on Forward Guidance should be considered as investment advice. Please always do your own research & speak to a financial advisor before thinking about, thinking about putting your money into these crazy markets.

Inflation in the United States rose above 9 percent in the summer of 2022, its highest rate in over four decades. The Federal Reserve has aggressively raised interest rates to combat inflation. While the inflation rate is declining, it remains well above the target rate of 2%.  Did the Federal Reserve react too late to rising inflation? Were its subsequent policy moves appropriately restrictive? Will current policy lead to a recession, or can the Fed engineer a soft landing that brings down inflation without causing a recession? EconoFact Chats welcomes back Jeffrey Fuhrer to discuss these issues. Jeff is a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard's Kennedy School. He worked for almost four decades in the Federal Reserve System, including serving as Research Director at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and as Special Advisor to that Bank's President.

Inflation in the United States rose above 9 percent in the summer of 2022, its highest rate in over four decades. The Federal Reserve has aggressively raised interest rates to combat inflation. While the inflation rate is declining, it remains well above the target rate of 2%.  Did the Federal Reserve react too late to rising inflation? Were its subsequent policy moves appropriately restrictive? Will current policy lead to a recession, or can the Fed engineer a soft landing that brings down inflation without causing a recession? EconoFact Chats welcomes back Jeffrey Fuhrer to discuss these issues. Jeff is a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard's Kennedy School. He worked for almost four decades in the Federal Reserve System, including serving as Research Director at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and as Special Advisor to that Bank's President.

Economist and Harvard Kennedy School Professor Joe Aldy says  possibly the most complex—and one of the most existentially important—problems facing humanity is how to pull out the roots of fossil fuel infrastructure that are so deeply embedded in the global economy. The work is complex and the scale is immense; In fact it's been said that transitioning the global economy from fossil fuels to sustainable sources will require the largest reallocation of capital in human history. Meanwhile Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its willingness to weaponize oil and natural gas distribution was a sign to many that the green energy transition will be bumpy and buffeted by geopolitical crises and the domestic politics of countries around the world. Joe Aldy is here to help us swap our rose-colored glasses for a clear-eyed vision of what the future holds for the economics of climate.Joe Aldy is a Professor of the Practice of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a University Fellow at Resources for the Future, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Senior Adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also the Faculty Chair for the Regulatory Policy Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. His research focuses on climate change policy, energy policy, and regulatory policy. In 2009-2010, Aldy served as the Special Assistant to the President for Energy and Environment, reporting through both the National Economic Council and the Office of Energy and Climate Change at the White House. Aldy was a Fellow at Resources for the Future from 2005 to 2008 and served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1997 to 2000. He also served as the Co-Director of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements, Co-Director of the International Energy Workshop, and Treasurer for the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists before joining the Obama Administration. He holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University, a Master of Environmental Management degree from the Nicholas School of the Environment, and a BA from Duke University.Ralph Ranalli of the HKS Office of Public Affairs and Communications is the host, producer, and editor of HKS PolicyCast. A former journalist, public television producer, and entrepreneur, he holds an AB in Political Science from UCLA and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.The co-producer of PolicyCast is Susan Hughes. Design and graphics support is provided by Lydia Rosenberg, Delane Meadows and the OCPA Design Team. Social media promotion and support is provided by Natalie Montaner and the OCPA Digital Team. 

Paul Tucker is a 33-year veteran of the Bank of England, where among other positions, he served as both a member and deputy governor of the Monetary Policy Committee. Currently, Paul is a research fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard. He is also a returning guest to the podcast, and rejoins Macro Musings to talk about his new book, *Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World.* Specifically, David and Paul also discuss China's push for reserve currency status, how to sell international legitimacy to the general public, the geopolitical advantage of trade deals, and much more.   Transcript for the episode can be found here.   Paul's Harvard profile Paul's website   David's Twitter: @DavidBeckworth Follow us on Twitter: @Macro_Musings   Click here for the latest Macro Musings episodes sent straight to your inbox! Check out our new Macro Musings merch here!   Related Links:   *Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order* by Paul Tucker   *Unelected Power: The Quest for Legitimacy in Central Banking and the Regulatory State* by Paul Tucker   *Quantitative Easing, Monetary Policy Implementation, and the Public Finances* by Paul Tucker   *Biden Needs Allies to Keep China and Russia in Check. Here's How to Do it.* by Sebastian Mallaby

Public discourse around climate change widely focuses on reaching net zero emissions. Yet, some propose that even after we reach net zero, temperatures will continue to warm, sea levels will continue to rise, and climate disasters will continue to occur. There are currently a number of proposed ideas that go beyond net zero by pulling carbon out of the atmosphere or artificially cooling the planet, known collectively as geoengineering. While geoengineering methods don't invalidate the need to decarbonize now and fast, given the dangerous trajectory of global heating, reaching net zero emissions may only be the beginning, not the end, of our fight against climate change. Wake Smith argues that future generations may be forced to take such dire actions to combat climate change and, if so, they deserve to inherit research done now to understand the potential feasibility and consequences of geoengineering. As a lecturer at Yale University, Wake teaches a world-leading undergraduate course on climate intervention, the syllabus of which forms the basis of his book, Pandora's Toolbox. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School, writing scholarly articles on the aeronautics, costs, and governance of solar geoengineering. In this episode, Wake and I discuss the current climate intervention landscape and the future possibilities that geoengineering offers. Resources mentioned in today's episode:Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention https://www.amazon.com/Pandoras-Toolbox-Hazards-Climate-Intervention/dp/1316518434 Connect with Wake Smith:https://www.wakesmith.earth/ Visit Coolperx® home page: www.coolperx.com Reach out to Coolperx®:Phone: 1 (855) 429-0455 email: hello@coolperx.com Support Coolperx®'s podcast by subscribing and reviewing! Music is considered “royalty-free” and discovered on Audio Blocks. Technical Podcast Support by: Jon Keur at Wayfare Recording Co. © 2022 Coolperx®. All Rights Reserved.

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world's leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now. In this episode, Andrew is joined by Howard Wolk, co-author of Launchpad Republic: America's Entrepreneurial Edge and Why It Matters. Howard Wolk is an experienced entrepreneur, company builder and investor. He is co-president of the Cross Country Group, a privately-held firm consisting of start-ups and mature companies. He is a former senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, where he developed and led a study group on entrepreneurship and society. Howard lives in Boston and London with his wife and two daughters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Section Lunch at the Antitrust Law Section's Annual Spring Meeting in March 2022 featured a panel discussion with four trailblazing women leaders who have served as current or former competition agency chiefs in their countries. By popular demand, we are dedicating an episode of Our Curious Amalgam to each of these inspiring panelists. In this episode, hosts Alicia Downey and Elyse Dorsey ask former Israeli Competition Authority Director-General Michal Halperin to talk about Israel's competition regime, newsworthy accomplishments of the Competition Authority under her leadership, and her own professional journey. With special guest: Michal Halperin, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, Harvard Kennedy School Related Link: Israeli Competition Authority Hosted by: Alicia Downey, Downey Law LLC and Elyse Dorsey, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Wake Smith is a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School, writing scholarly articles on the feasibility, costs and governance of stratospheric aerosol geoengineering. Wake also teaches an undergraduate course on climate intervention at Yale University, the syllabus of which forms the basis of his new book “Pandora's Toolbox – The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention.” Prior to his academic career, Smith served in several executive roles in the commercial aviation industry, including as the President of the flight training division of Boeing and the COO of Atlas Air.  We spoke with Wake about his new book and why he believes that our ancestors will demand climate intervention. We cover the climate context, and the tools in Pandora's toolbox: carbon dioxide removal and solar radiation management. Wake explains why high-flying jets offer a feasible means of deploying stratospheric aerosol geoengineering, and why the scenario of a billionaire “Greenfinger” implementing this is unlikely. We also touch on the international governance challenges that solar radiation management poses.  Links: Wake's Book: “Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention” Wake's personal website Article by Wake on “The cost of stratospheric aerosol injection through 2100” Support the show

In the 1950s and 1960s, the dollar was as “good as gold” – until it wasn't. The dollar no longer served as the centerpiece of the world's fixed exchange rate arrangement when the Bretton Woods system broke apart in the early 1970s. But the dollar has remained, to this day, the dominant currency for international trade and global finance. What advantages does the United States enjoy because of the special role of the dollar? Are other currencies, like the Euro or the Renminbi, or even cryptocurrencies, likely to replace the dollar's hegemonic position? Megan Greene discusses this topic which has important implications for the United States economy as well as the stability of the world monetary system. Megan is a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School, and is also the first Dame DeAnne Julius Senior Fellow in International Economics at Chatham House, UK.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the dollar was as “good as gold” – until it wasn't. The dollar no longer served as the centerpiece of the world's fixed exchange rate arrangement when the Bretton Woods system broke apart in the early 1970s. But the dollar has remained, to this day, the dominant currency for international trade and global finance. What advantages does the United States enjoy because of the special role of the dollar? Are other currencies, like the Euro or the Renminbi, or even cryptocurrencies, likely to replace the dollar's hegemonic position? Megan Greene discusses this topic which has important implications for the United States economy as well as the stability of the world monetary system. Megan is a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School, and is also the first Dame DeAnne Julius Senior Fellow in International Economics at Chatham House, UK.

Ignazio Angeloni è research fellow presso il Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government all'Harvard Kennedy School e senior policy fellow presso il Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE alla Goethe University Frankfurt.

Stan is a Senior Consultant with Charles River Associates. He's a nationally recognized expert in the economics of intellectual property rights, telecommunications policy, and telecommunications and computer standards. Stan has taught at Rice, Columbia, and the Georgetown University Law Center. And in government, he was a Brookings Economic Policy Fellow for the Office of Telecommunications Policy and the Executive Office of the President and Co-Director of the Network Inquiry Special Staff at the Federal Communications Commission. Prior to joining CRA, he was a Senior Economist at the Rand Corporation. Phil is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. Phil has practiced communications and antitrust law in the government and private law firms for nearly five decades. In the Obama administration, he served as Senior Counselor to the FCC chairman. And before that, as Ambassador and US Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy. Earlier in his career, he was an antitrust prosecutor at the DOJ, where he was lead counsel for the US v. AT&T case, and also at the FTC, and he has been chief of three FCC bureaus.

Wake Smith, author of Pandora's Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention, shares his assessment of the climate response  the strategies and technologies that can be used to end CO2 emissions and restore the planet to pre-industrial climate conditions. He is a lecturer on climate interventions at Yale and a Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. He explains that we're not making sufficient progress on reaching net-zero before very late this century and why new institutions are needed to guide policy toward climate goals before parts of the world become barren and unhabitable for humans. Once we reach net-zero CO2 emissions, we face centuries of effort to return to the environment in which our species evolved.We also discuss carbon capture and sequestration and a form of solar geoengineering, stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI), which involves sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to deflect the Sun's energy. Wake does not advocate extreme measures but urges nations to support research into SAI and other tech that could be deployed to ensure human survival. His comments on how our descendants may feel about us and what he's learned from his students about the importance of tying actions to consequences will get you thinking: Are we doing enough? Is the world we are entering governable with today's institutions? Pandora's Toolbox is available on Amazon and at Powell's Books.

How do we build a regulator for digital platforms? In this episode, we talk to Tom Wheeler, former Chair of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), about how regulators can balance technological innovation with other public interests such as protecting truth in media, a competitive marketplace, consumer data privacy, and more. Listen to Tom discuss how as the Chair of the FCC, he was able to implement rules to enforce net neutrality, data privacy, cybersecurity, and affordable broadband access for schools across the U.S. Tom discusses in detail about his proposal for a new agile regulator of digital platforms in the U.S. that he worked on with colleagues at Harvard University in order to fight the big con from Big Tech of needing "permissionless innovation" in order for the U.S. to remain competitive. With this new digital platforms regulator, the U.S. can take a leadership position in the world by creating the rules for how technology should interact with Americans rather than ceding control to the E.U., the U.K, or China. One of the areas the regulator can drive innovation is in creating more open data systems where consumers can switch social networks in the future as easily as they can switch phone providers today. Finally, Tom reflects on his illustrious career to offer some advice to recent grads to follow their passions, whether that's to Capitol Hill, to a private tech company, to a regulatory agency, or to a graduate degree. Ultimately, what they just need to get started and what they do for the next 3 years or 5 years is only the beginning of the long arc of their career. Guest bio: Tom Wheeler served as the Chairman of the FCC from 2013 to 2017 under President Obama. For more than three decades, Wheeler has been involved with new telecommunications networks and services, experiencing the revolution in telecommunications as a policy expert, advocate, and businessman. As an entrepreneur, he started or helped start multiple companies offering cable, wireless, and video communications services. He is currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and a Senior Fellow at HKS' Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Related links: From Gutenberg to Google: The History of Our Future. Tom Wheeler. https://www.brookings.edu/book/from-gutenberg-to-google/ About the podcast: How Tech Becomes Law is a weekly public interest tech podcast about technology, public policy, and career advice. We are your co-hosts, Jinyan Zang and Dhruv Gupta. Each episode uncovers insights from leaders in government, business, journalism, and academia to highlight how technology can be built in the public interest. Interviewees discuss how technology can move society forward, what role they play in shaping this, and how students and young professionals can impact the path forward. We are supported by the Public Interest Tech Lab. Listen to us on your podcast platform of choice. You can find us online at howtechbecomeslaw.org and on social media channels @techbecomeslaw.

What is the future of money? In this episode, we talk to Tim Massad, former Chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission about how to regulate stablecoins, central bank digital currencies (CDBCs), and other cryptocurrencies. Tim discusses how his experience with helping the U.S. government implement its bail-out of large banks during the 2008 Great Financial Crisis has influenced his perspective on the benefits and risks of stablecoins. Tim also talks about how he is in favor of promoting more competition in the financial sector including from new crypto firms in order to speed up payments in the U.S. while still protecting consumer interests. Finally, Tim encourages young lawyers to seek out opportunities to work on hard problems at the cutting edge of finance, technology, regulations, and more in their careers in order to do meaningful work to make life better for the average American. Guest bio: Tim Massad served as Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2014 to 2017. Under his leadership, the agency implemented many critical reforms to markets including declaring cryptocurrencies to be commodities subject to the agency's jurisdiction. Previously, Professor Massad oversaw the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the principal U.S. government response to the 2008 financial crisis in his capacity as the Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Prior to his government service, Tim Massad was a partner in the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP. Tim Massad is currently a Research Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown Law School. Related links: Regulating stablecoins isn't just about avoiding systemic risk. Timothy Massad. The Brookings Institution. October 5, 2021. https://www.brookings.edu/research/regulating-stablecoins-isnt-just-about-avoiding-systemic-risk/ Report on Stablecoins. President's Working Group on Financial Markets, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. November 1, 2021. https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/StableCoinReport_Nov1_508.pdf Engineering is the Key to the Debate Over Whether to Create a CBDC. Timothy Massad. Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. October 17, 2021. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/mrcbg/news-events/massad10172021 Can a Cryptocurrency Break the Buck? Timothy Massad. Bloomberg. May 31, 2021. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-31/stablecoins-like-tether-should-face-regulators-scrutiny?sref=hU7uPhn8 Coinbase's Small Fine is a Big Warning to IPO Investors. Timothy Massad. Bloomberg. April 8, 2021. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-04-08/coinbase-s-small-fine-is-a-big-warning-to-ipo-investors?sref=hU7uPhn8 Facebook's Libra 2.0. Timothy Massad. The Brookings Institution. June 22, 2020. https://www.brookings.edu/research/facebooks-libra-2-0/ It's time to strengthen the regulation of crypto-assets. Timothy Massad. The Brookings Institution. March 18, 2019. https://www.brookings.edu/research/its-time-to-strengthen-the-regulation-of-crypto-assets/

In this event, Mr Sands discusses how to enhance Global Health Preparedness for the Future. He highlights the impact of the disruption by the COVID-19 pandemic on the treatment of other infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and the substantial set-back it poses to recent progress in public health systems in Africa and elsewhere, particularly in this decade of action for the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He also explores methods to counter this impact and to be better prepared for the future. This is the second event in the 2021 Development Matters lecture series, co-organised by the IIEA and Irish Aid. About the Speakers: Peter Sands has been the Executive Director of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria since March 2018. Since June 2015, Mr Sands has been a Research Fellow at Harvard University, dividing his time between the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Global Health Institute. Mr Sands was Group CEO of Standard Chartered PLC from November 2006 to June 2015, having joined the board as Group CFO in May 2002. Prior to this, Mr Sands was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co. Mr Sands has served on various boards and commissions, including the UK's Department of Health, the World Economic Forum and the International Advisory Board of the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Joseph Aldy, an economist and professor of the practice of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, has seen this all before. A climate in crisis. A big economic downturn. A transition from a Republican administration to a new Democratic president looking to drastically change the country’s direction. Twelve years ago, Aldy was a member of then-President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team as it took over from the George W. Bush administration. He says the challenges today are much the same—figuring out how to push aggressive measures to stave off the worst effects of climate change while bringing back lost jobs and jump-starting a stalled economy. Some of those Obama policies worked, he says, particularly investments in wind and solar subsidies that have now made clean energy sources competitive on price with dirty ones like coal.But comparisons only go so far. Aldy says in many ways President-elect Joe Biden faces problems that are even more formidable and acute: a much shorter window to transform the energy foundation of our economy, a struggling economy made even worse by a raging pandemic, and a country even more polarized and in ideological conflict with itself — including a US Senate that’s still up for grabs and an outgoing president who is refusing to acknowledge that he’s even lost.Professor Aldy and host Thoko Moyo explore those challenges and discuss how the new administration can respond—and maybe even succeed.Joseph Aldy is a Harvard Kennedy School professor of the practice of public policy, a university fellow at Resources for the Future, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also the faculty fhair for the Regulatory Policy Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. His research focuses on climate change policy, energy policy, and regulatory policy.PolicyCast is a production of Harvard Kennedy School and is hosted by Associate Dean for Communications and Public Affairs Thoko Moyo.PolicyCast is produced and engineered by Ralph Ranalli and co-produced by Susan Hughes.For more information please visit our website.

Speaker: William Overholt, Senior Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School. Moderator: Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University; Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton; Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama. Introduction by: Winnie Chi-Man Yip, Professor of Global Health Policy and Economics, Department of Global Health and Population; Faculty Director, Harvard China Health Partnership, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health; Interim Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, Harvard Kennedy School.

Maryam Alemzadeh (Princeton) Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (St Andrews), author of The Quest for Authority in Iran: a history of the presidency from revolution to Rouhani (2017), give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. Chaired Professor Edmund Herzig (Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford) Scholars have shown the dictatorial function of the parallel political system of the Islamic Republic: although the authoritarian office of supreme leadership and the security apparatuses strictly limit the quasi-democratic institutions (i.e. the presidency and the parliament), they avert any criticism of the government’s malfunction to the latter, thereby saving ideological face among dedicated supporters. In this functionalist explanation of the dual system of power, the qualitative difference of the two sides’ working mechanisms goes unnoticed. In this talk I address the organizational dynamics of the nonconventional section of state in Iran, with a special focus on the Islamic Revolutionary Guards. I demonstrate that behind the security apparatus Panopticon and its capillary power lies a “revolutionary” institution—one that tolerates and encourages revolutionary direct action, thereby sustaining a sizable popular base over the years. The popular base is not necessarily brainwashed to serve the state. Rather, I argue, institutions of power keep it committed and interested by authorizing spontaneous, direct action, even though revolutionary times are long passed. Maryam Alemzadeh-Bio Maryam Alemzadeh is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. She earned her PhD in sociology at the University of Chicago in 2018, and has previously worked as the Grinspoon Junior Research Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. Maryam is a historical and cultural sociologist of revolutions, state building, and grassroots militias, specializing on Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Based on detailed historical findings, she writes about cultural practices as a sociologist, and about contemporary US-Middle East politics as an Iran expert. Her work has appeared in the British Journal of Middle East Studies and Foreign Affairs, among other places.

Maryam Alemzadeh (Princeton) Siavush Randjbar-Daemi (St Andrews), author of The Quest for Authority in Iran: a history of the presidency from revolution to Rouhani (2017), give a talk for the Middle East Centre Friday Seminar Series. Chaired Professor Edmund Herzig (Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford) Scholars have shown the dictatorial function of the parallel political system of the Islamic Republic: although the authoritarian office of supreme leadership and the security apparatuses strictly limit the quasi-democratic institutions (i.e. the presidency and the parliament), they avert any criticism of the government’s malfunction to the latter, thereby saving ideological face among dedicated supporters. In this functionalist explanation of the dual system of power, the qualitative difference of the two sides’ working mechanisms goes unnoticed. In this talk I address the organizational dynamics of the nonconventional section of state in Iran, with a special focus on the Islamic Revolutionary Guards. I demonstrate that behind the security apparatus Panopticon and its capillary power lies a “revolutionary” institution—one that tolerates and encourages revolutionary direct action, thereby sustaining a sizable popular base over the years. The popular base is not necessarily brainwashed to serve the state. Rather, I argue, institutions of power keep it committed and interested by authorizing spontaneous, direct action, even though revolutionary times are long passed. Maryam Alemzadeh-Bio Maryam Alemzadeh is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. She earned her PhD in sociology at the University of Chicago in 2018, and has previously worked as the Grinspoon Junior Research Fellow at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. Maryam is a historical and cultural sociologist of revolutions, state building, and grassroots militias, specializing on Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Based on detailed historical findings, she writes about cultural practices as a sociologist, and about contemporary US-Middle East politics as an Iran expert. Her work has appeared in the British Journal of Middle East Studies and Foreign Affairs, among other places.

This week on DisrupTV, we interviewed Alex Osterwalder, Co-Founder at Strategyzer, Paul Sheard, Research Fellow of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School and Liz Miller, VP & Principal Analyst at Constellation Research. DisrupTV is a weekly Web series with hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar. The show airs live at 11:00 a.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. ET every Friday. Brought to you by Constellation Executive Network: constellationr.com/CEN.

Even the most active people have gone into lockdown and perhaps started to support their local community or gotten involved in a wider social movement. The most proactive may have even written a book. Dr Myriam Sidibe has done all of these things! Myriam is the woman behind the multi award winning and UN recognized Global Handwashing Day. She has focused her professional life’s work on handwashing, leading Unilever’s Lifebuoy programme and is a senior Fellow at the Mossavar Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. During our podcast Myriam shares how she has set up the national business response coalition in Kenya. The National Business Compact on Coronavirus is bringing together businesses from across Kenya, the UN family and NGOs supporting their Ministry of Health by amplifying hygiene messages, distributing handwashing facilities and raising funds for those most vulnerable and in need during the pandemic. Their mission is to apply and share global best practice in cross sector collaboration and partnering. “In parallel the rest of everything else I am working on hasn't stopped either.” Explains Myriam. “I am a public health worker. I have spent 20 plus years thinking about handwashing and most of it from the private sector, now is the time to accelerate these learnings to the world.” Myriam shares why she has written her new book: ‘Brands on a Mission.’ A guide and plethora of practical examples highlighting the importance of creating a performance culture that is built on driving impact through purpose, and the type of talent required to drive these transformational changes within companies - from CEO to brand developers. During this podcast you will hear Myriam’s predictions for how things will change post COVID and how she hopes that we rebuild better businesses. Listen in to hear what she thinks about the way we travel, how we will be connecting through simple behaviours and what she means by compassion capitalism. Myriam’s advice to us all: “Dig deep and stay true to your purpose.” Links: National Business Compact on Coronavirus, Kenya: https://www.covid19businessresponse.ke Brands on a Mission: https://www.waterstones.com/book/brands-on-a-mission/myriam-sidibe//9780367428334 Business Fights Poverty: https://businessfightspoverty.org Business and COVID-19 Response Centre: https://businessfightspoverty.org/articles/covid-19-response-centre/

In the middle of making our very first episode and a series of interviews that would follow, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. The entire reason we started making this podcast was to inform, educate and assist marketers do their jobs just a little bit better. Now, I realize we have an opportunity here to do that, which is why we're releasing this episode of how to market during a pandemic right now. We'll have more on this topic -- and many others with a strong focus on consumer psychology…. And I just want to point out -- we realize this isn't the typical way to kick off a new series, but these are unusual times. So how can marketers use this as an opportunity rather than a hindrance? And how do they do it ethically? The following guests appear on this episode: Deb Gordon has spent her career trying to level the health care playing field for consumers and now advises start-ups and innovators trying to make health care better for everyone. Deb is a seasoned executive specializing in health care innovation, strategy, marketing, communications, and growth. She has held a variety of executive roles in health care, including spending nearly a decade leading marketing for a health plan that served Massachusetts residents. In 2017, after the acquisition of a health technology turnaround she led, Deb became a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, she conducted extensive research on health care consumerism. Her research into health care consumerism -- in search of consumer-driven solutions to American health care woes -- spawned The Health Care Consumer's Manifesto. Before joining the Rawls College Of Business , Dr. Dino Villegas had more than ten years of experience as a consultant working on industries such as: Mining, construction, postal services, transport, financial services and banks, retail, telecommunications, government institutions, political campaigns, and non-profits organization among others. Professor Villegas has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in: Marketing, Marketing and Media, Research, Entrepreneurship, Communication Strategy, Services Marketing, Sales Management, and International Marketing. Is the Vice President of the Iberoamerican Communication Strategies Forum (FISEC), a research group that brings together academics from over 20 countries, also is the faculty advisor for the Tech Marketing Association and a proud father of two. His research interest is focus on On-Line communities in social media, with special interest on the understanding of the cultural, interaction and symbolic elements from a brand and consumer perspective. Andrya Allen is an award-winning author and consultant in communications, leadership and business. Andrya Allen is the founder of Crossland Communication, a growth firm for innovative, world-changing organizations across the globe. She lives in Pensacola with her husband and two children. Allen is a graduate of the Strategic Communication and Leadership MA at the University of West Florida. Every day Joshua Lisec helps authors manifest the mission behind their voice. Joshua is the world's only award-winning, celebrity-recommended, #1 international bestselling Certified Professional Ghostwriter. He is also a Forbes Contributor ghostwriter, a TEDx speaker, and a two-time published novelist. Since 2011, Joshua has ghostwritten more than forty-five books and has been featured in BBC Radio London, American Express, Yahoo!, The Huffington Post, CarolRoth.com, and numerous other outlets.

Show from 12/13/19In this episode of Behind the Markets Jeremy Schwartz and Jeremy Siegel interview their guest about the state of global markets and interest rates. They discuss the impact of the recent British elections, trade talks with China, and their time in the Fed. What will the effects of the coming trade shock be? What should the Fed's role be in policy decisions? They will answer these questions and more.Guest:Charles Plosser - Former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, currently serves as a Public Governor for FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, where he serves on the Investment Committee and the Finance, Operations and Technology CommitteeDennis Lockhart - Former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, currently a Senior Fellow in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy SchoolFind out more about them here: https://www.finra.org/about/governance/finra-board-governors/charles-plosser, https://premierespeakers.com/dennis-lockhart See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On November 15, 2019, the Federalist Society's Financial Services & E-Commerce Practice Group hosted a panel for the 2019 National Lawyers Convention at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. The panel covered "Money and the Constitution".Money. We all use it, for exchange, for store of value, for identifying prices, and many other purposes and exercises. In the United States, and under our Constitution, what is money, how is it created, what is its value, who gets to decide, and to whom are such decision makers accountable? Is it an instrument of freedom, or a tool of government policy to affect that freedom? These questions, which touch all of us, will be the topic of discussion of our panelists.*******As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speakers.Featuring:Dr. Don Kohn, Robert V. Roosa Chair in International Economics, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institute Mr. Alex J. Pollock, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Finance, Insurance & Trade, R StreetDr. Paul Sheard, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy SchoolProf. Richard E. Sylla, Professor Emeritus of Economics, New York University Stern School of BusinessModerator: Hon. Paul B. Matey, United States Court of Appeals, Third CircuitIntroduction: Hon. Wayne A. Abernathy, Executive VP for Financial Institutions Policy and Regulatory Af, American Bankers Association

On November 15, 2019, the Federalist Society's Financial Services & E-Commerce Practice Group hosted a panel for the 2019 National Lawyers Convention at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. The panel covered "Money and the Constitution".Money. We all use it, for exchange, for store of value, for identifying prices, and many other purposes and exercises. In the United States, and under our Constitution, what is money, how is it created, what is its value, who gets to decide, and to whom are such decision makers accountable? Is it an instrument of freedom, or a tool of government policy to affect that freedom? These questions, which touch all of us, will be the topic of discussion of our panelists.*******As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speakers.Featuring:Dr. Don Kohn, Robert V. Roosa Chair in International Economics, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institute Mr. Alex J. Pollock, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Finance, Insurance & Trade, R StreetDr. Paul Sheard, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy SchoolProf. Richard E. Sylla, Professor Emeritus of Economics, New York University Stern School of BusinessModerator: Hon. Paul B. Matey, United States Court of Appeals, Third CircuitIntroduction: Hon. Wayne A. Abernathy, Executive VP for Financial Institutions Policy and Regulatory Af, American Bankers Association

Focusing on healthcare consumerism For the show notes, full transcript, links, and resources please visit us at show link: https://bit.ly/2GUdVFv

durée : 00:04:43 - Le Journal de l'éco - par : Xavier Martinet - Un aéroport bloqué pour la troisième fois, un tourisme en baisse de 13 %, des commerçants de centre-ville inquiets et des opérations financières reportées : après 12 semaines de manifestations, la consommation à Hong-Kong fléchit, le PIB recule... Et la cinquième place financière mondiale résiste ? - invités : Philippe Le Corre Senior Fellow à la Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge (MA), chercheur au Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government et au Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

Lawrence Summers is the former Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank, senior U.S. Treasury Department and former director of the National Economic Council. He is a former president of Harvard University and currently director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

Focusing on healthcare consumerism

This seminar was given on October 5, 2017 as part of the Regulatory Policy Program seminar series at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government.

Do you believe you should have the ability to shop for your healthcare like you shop for groceries? Do you know what healthcare plan is best for you and your family? Deb Gordon, a senior fellow at Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, shares her research on how consumer-based healthcare and the impact it could have on you. Show Notes: 0:35 Shane Simmons and Phil Powell introduce The ROI Podcast. 1:00 Today's episode will be discussing healthcare in the United States. 1:23 Physicians drive 80 percent of the resource allocations decisions in healthcare. 1:49 Healthcare represents 20 percent of the U.S. economy. 2:10 Deb Gordon joins the podcast. Her research focuses on consumer behavior in the healthcare marketplace. 3:47 Deb uses the analogy of shopping for groceries when relating it to consumer-driven healthcare. 4:44 Healthcare consumers are already beginning to ask about pricing and shopping around. 5:53 Deb believes physicians play a more important role now with the changing dynamic of healthcare. 7:00 Deb's research shows clinicians are typically not trained to consider the cost for the patient, but rather just focus on treatment. 8:17 Deb believes the market will win out, and healthcare will evolve to the consumer. ---- Do you have a question? Looking to get help on a business decision? Know a great guest for our show? Email roipod@iupui.edu so we can help your organization make better business decisions. ---- Ready to take your next step? Check out if a Kelley MBA is right for you: https://bit.ly/3m2G6D5

This seminar was given by Bill Clark, Harvey Brooks Professor of International Science, Public Policy and Human Development, and co-director of the Sustainability Science Program at the Harvard Kennedy School. The seminar was given as part of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government's Business & Government Seminar Series on February 16, 2017.

This seminar was given by Nick Lovegrove, former M-RCBG senior fellow and U.S. Managing Partner at the Brunswick Group. The seminar was given as part of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government's Business & Government Seminar Series on February 15, 2017.

This seminar was given by Norm Champ, partner at Kirkland & Ellis, LLP and author of the book “Going Public: My Adentures Inside the SEC and How to Prevent the Next Devastating Crisis." It was given on February 2, 2017 as part of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government's Business & Government Seminar Series.

Today we’re expanding beyond our usual Barefoot Innovation focus on consumer financial innovation, to explore the parallel issues arising for small businesses. We’ve touched on this before, but are so fortunate, today, to have a guest who deeply understands the whole range of these issues. She is Karen Mills, former head of the Small Business Administration and now senior fellow at the Harvard Business School, where she has just released a comprehensive paper on fintech and small business. We recorded today’s show in her office on the business school campus, which is just across the Charles River from my fellowship’s home base in the Harvard Kennedy School. She and I first met in Washington a few years back, when she issued a research paper on the state of small business lending. That was in conjunction with the group that issued the Small Business Borrowers’ Bill of Rights (which we covered in our episode with Brian Graham of BancAlliance. In 2016, much to my delight, Karen and her co-author Brayden McCarthy put out an update on her paper, and this time it’s mostly about fintech. Technology is changing small business lending in the same ways it’s transforming consumer finance, but with different twists. On the positive side, innovators are using technology to do better for SME’s -- small and medium-sized enterprises -- by adopting low-cost online platforms, becoming much smarter about getting and using data, speeding up service, and creating a vastly better user experience than was possible in the past. The data issue is crucial. Thanks to new technology (including Square), small businesses increasingly can give lenders solid, up to date information on their financial positions and cash flows. Innovative lenders can analyze this, determine with precision what the borrower can afford, and often can create a flexible repayment schedule that works with the rhythm of the business, including seasonal ones. These innovators are filling an enormous gap -- which Karen clearly demonstrates -- because banks just cannot profitably make the smaller loans that so many businesses need. There are  downsides, though. One is that whereas local banks interact with their business customers face to face,  these new relationships are online. For lenders, this creates higher risk of fraud. And for borrowers, there is rising danger that these entrepreneurs will be harmed by confusing terms and, sometimes, by downright predatory practices online. And here’s a little-known fact:  small business borrowers have almost no regulatory protections, at least at the federal level. There is no federal regulator for small business lending, as there is for consumers, and even if there were, there are very few regulations that apply. Generally speaking, there are no requirements for standard disclosures to small business borrowers, and no rules against unfair and deceptive practices, beyond those that cover commerce in general. This is significant, because today’s small businesses are more similar to consumers than ever before. The “1099” or “gig” economy has led to more and more people starting small businesses as their main work, or to supplement tight household budgets, or to tide them over after losing a job. It’s a mistake to assume that, simply because they’re business people, they are therefore financially sophisticated. Listeners to Barefoot Innovation have probably figured out by now that I’m not a fan of the current regulatory apparatus for protecting financial consumers (even though I myself have been involved in developing some of it). Broadly speaking, disclosures are failing, and regulations are choking desirable innovation. The last thing I think we should do is to transplant our whole system of consumer protection laws into the fresh, green field of small business lending, and have it put down roots there -- like crabgrass. I think we should be deeply rethinking our consumer laws. In the process, though, we should also be thinking about whether and how to create protections and tools for small businesses to use, too. Karen does recommend extending some consumer-type protections to these firms, including APR’s (we had a good exchange on the pros and cons of that). She also has tremendous insights into the structure and nature of the market, and on what to do about what she calls the “spaghetti soup” of regulatory agencies and rules, which now make it so hard to move toward a smarter system. She focuses, too, on the critical need for clearer, updated regulatory guidance for banks that want to work with fintechs on small business lending. A wide spectrum of new models are emerging, partly because these two industries need each other -- they complement each other. Both sides will suffer, and so will business borrowers, if banks can’t navigate the third-party risk rules of their prudential regulators. (As I often say, the regulators have the hardest job in all this.) More information on Karen: Karen Gordon Mills served as the Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration from 2009 until August 2013.  She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Business School and at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School focusing on U.S. competitiveness, entrepreneurship and innovation. As SBA Administrator and a Cabinet member, Mills served on the President’s National Economic Council and was a key member of the White House economic team.  At the SBA, she led a team of more than 3,000 employees and managed a loan guarantee portfolio of over $100 billion.  Mills is credited with turning around the agency during the financial crisis and with streamlining loan programs, shortening turnaround times, and reducing paperwork.  In addition, Mills helped small businesses create regional economic clusters, gain access to early stage capital, hire skilled workers, boost exports, and tap into government and commercial supply chains.   Prior to the SBA, Mills held leadership positions in the private sector, including as a partner in several private equity firms, and served on the boards of Scotts Miracle-Gro and Arrow Electronics.  Most recently, she was president of MMP Group, which invested in businesses in consumer products, food, textiles, and industrial components.  In 2007, Maine Governor John Baldacci appointed Mills to chair Maine’s Council on Competitiveness and the Economy, where she focused on regional development initiatives, including a regional economic cluster with Maine’s boatbuilding industry.    Mills earned an AB in economics from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar. Additionally, she is a past vice chair of the Harvard Overseers, and is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Harvard Corporation. And listen, too, to our episode from last year with Sam Hodges of Funding Circle, a leading example of platform lending to small businesses. More for our listeners We have some amazing shows coming up, including one with Chase’s Colleen Briggs, several focused on global trends, at least one with a CEO of a community bank, and one that I will call a barn-burner with the former CEO of PayPal and Inuit, Bill Harris. Don’t miss them! Remember to write a review of Barefoot Innovation on ITunes, and please sign up at www.,jsbarefoot.com to get email notices when new podcasts come out, as well as my newsletter and blog posts.  Go there too to send in your “buck a show” to keep Barefoot Innovation going. And remember to  join my facebook fan page and follow me on twitter. 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This seminar was given by Joseph Aldy, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Faculty Chair of the Regulatory Policy Program at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government. It was given on October 27, 2016.

Today’s program is really special, because my guest is Brigitte Madrian. Brigitte is the Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Harvard Kennedy School, and also co-director of the Household Finance working group at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is a leading expert in behavioral economics and consumer decision-making regarding both health and finance, and in finance,especially savings and retirement. Importantly to me, she is also my faculty advisor for the book I’m writing. Regular listeners know I’m spending two years as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Business and Government in the Kennedy School.  As I started into my fellowship last year, I had the great fortune of linking with Brigitte as my faculty advisor for the book.  She is part of the movement in economics that’s rethinking the classical theory that assumes that everyone behaves rationally. That work goes to the very heart of the condundrum in consumer finance, where both policymakers and industry have to grapple with the fact that consumers don’t always make the choices that are best for them. Understanding the many reasons why that happens, and how to elicit better decisions, is one of the keys to improving consumer financial health. For this podcast, I met with Brigitte in her office on a lovely summer day. The Kennedy school is a complex of brick buildings clustered on the bank of the Charles River – it’s located about halfway between the Harvard Business School, on the other side of the river, and the old Harvard Yard, which is the traditional heart of the college (Harvard was founded in 1636). The Kennedy School has been undergoing construction ever since I got here – I get a fascinating display of cranes and I-beams and such from my little office space in the Belfer building – but Brigitte and I had a quiet talk during summer semester, with most of the students away. She came to Harvard about 10 years ago, and in our talk, she quoted someone once saying that professional schools tend to be run very much like the professions they represent. It’s certainly true of the Kennedy School, which is all about gathering together a multiplicity of voices to grapple with public policy challenges. And it’s especially true for my center, which is the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. All of our fellows are working on finding practical solutions at the nexus of public policy and the private sector. That’s what Brigitte has done in her research. She started out by looking at data on retirement plans (her first paper was about automatic enrollment), and she found the results so compelling that she didn’t even need to do statistical analysis to see that automatic enrollment led to dramatic increase in savings plan participation, especially among the groups least likely to participate -- employees who were younger, lower-paid employees, newly-hired, black and latino. The automatic enrollment caused an amazing 50-60% increase in plan participation. That paper got a lot of attention and led her to a 20 year research agenda trying to understand financial decisions. I think you’ll be very interested in her views about the track record for policies like financial literacy education and financial incentives to save. She pinpoints complexity as a critical problem, and she’s not a fan of disclosure as the solution. Our talk was especially timely because we met shortly after release of an important study she helped produce, by the Retirement Security and Personal Savings Commission of the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington.   The report is titled Securing Our Financial Future, and makes recommendations for policymakers on how to increase income security for older individuals. She’ll describe some of the highlights. I’m excited about behavioral economics because when these insights are combined with new technology, it becomes possible to create vastly better financial products. You may remember my discussion with Ethan Bloch of Digit, which incorporates these same principles of letting people save automatically instead of through daily effort, and in trying to bring financial decision-making time to zero. Easy and sound financial management is suddenly becoming possible. Brigitte’s biography: Brigitte Madrian is the Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Harvard Kennedy School.  Before coming to Harvard in 2006, she was on the Faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School (2003-2006), the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (1995-2003) and the Harvard University Economics Department (1993-1995).  She is also a research associate and co-director of the Household Finance working group at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Dr. Madrian’s current research focuses on behavioral economics and household finance, with a particular focus on household saving and investment behavior.  Her work in this area has impacted the design of employer-sponsored savings plans in the U.S. and has influenced pension reform legislation both in the U.S. and abroad. She is also engaged in research on health, using the lens of behavioral economics to understand health behaviors and improve health outcomes; in the past she has also examined the impact of health insurance on the job choice and retirement decisions of employees and the hiring decisions of firms. Dr. Madrian received her Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and studied economics as an undergraduate at Brigham Young University.  She is the recipient of the National Academy of Social Insurance Dissertation Prize (first place, 1994) and a two-time recipient of the TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award for Scholarly Research on Lifelong Financial Security (2002 and 2011). Also…. Please sign up for our mailing list, which includes our newly-launched newsletter highlighting events of the month and my thoughts about them. I have some big news coming up – I’m co-founding a Reg-Tech venture, so don’t miss hearing about it! Subscribe Sign up with your email address to receive news and updates. Email Address Sign Up We respect your privacy. Thank you! Also, please send in your “buck a show” to support Barefoot Innovation. Have you ever noticed that we often have long lapses of time between when we record a podcast and when we post it? That’s because the show is free, but takes huge amounts of time to produce. And we produce it on a shoestring – I work with my little cadre of young part-timers. If we can develop more revenue, we want to get onto a more frequent and regular schedule. 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This seminar was given by Alan Bersin, Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Officer for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Policy. It was held on March 25, 2016 as part of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government’s Business & Government Seminar Series.

This seminar was given by Sir Paul Tucker, chair of the Systemic Risk Council. It was held on March 3, 2016 as part of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government’s Business & Government Seminar Series.