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Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman has been awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his groundbreaking work on international trade and economic geography. The Leigh Bureau offers Professor Krugman its most earnest congratulations.
10.13.08



Matt Mason
The Pirate's Dilemma was awarded Best Pirate in its list of Best and Worst of Everything 2008 by BusinessWeek.
12.17.08

Nouriel Roubini
Nouriel Roubini has just been named one of "10 new gurus you should know" by Fortune magazine.
11.26.08

John Quelch
John Quelch, Harvard marketing professor and former dean of London Business School, will join the faculty of the China Europe International Business School (Ceibs), in Shanghai, China, as a visiting professor from January. Prof Quelch, currently senior associate dean at Harvard Business School, will also be chairman of the Academic Council at Ceibs, in Shanghai.
11.21.08

Robert Shiller
Robert Shiller's firm MacroMarkets plan to release this month the first exchange-traded funds that will allow buyers to bet on whether house prices will rise or fall. Professor Shiller has often said that markets like these on home prices would provide market signals that could help prevent housing bubbles in the future. This innovation was named by Time Magazine to its list of Time's Best Inventions of 2008.
11.6.08

Don Tapscott
Don Tapscott begins a series of articles in BusinessWeek on the Net Generation, the topic of his soon-to-be-released book, Grown Up Digital. The first article is titled Net Geners Come of Age.

Andrew Zolli
Andrew Zolli's annual media and technology conference Pop!Tech has launched an online social network for attendees and others to collaborate year-round. Pop!Tech Digital Hub is "a place for people working on the forefront of innovation to connect and collaborate with people who are working to make the world a better place.
10.28.08

Joseph Coughlin
The founding director of the MIT AgeLab is the 2008 recipient of the Maxwell A. Pollack Award for Productive Aging, given by the Gerontological Society of America to mid-career researchers whose visionary work has demonstrated excellence in translating research into practical application or policy improving the lives of older people.
11.10.08


  
Don Tapscott
Author of Grown Up Digital


Just released in November and Don Tapscott's new book is already on a Business Best-sellers list. Don's material from Grown Up Digital offers audiences an indispensable message about their future, from one of our most dynamic and successful speakers.

See our special feature page on Grown Up Digital.

Depression economics is a situation in which normal anti-recession medicine no longer works. That was true in the 1930s, it was true of Japan in the 1990s, it was true in a lot of developing countries and now it's true for us.
~ Paul Krugman









The World is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy
, David Smick [1.6.09]


A daily Publication LOG of articles by and about our speakers

___Tuesday________________________
The Great Real Estate Bust of 2008, Robert Shiller, Real Clear Markets [1.6.09]
TQ Self-Diagnostic Test, Charles H. Green, Trusted Advisor [1.6.09]
Lennon to "star" in One Laptop Per Child charity campaign, Nicholas Negroponte, The Sunday Times [1.6.09]
Invention Roundup, Steven Johnson, Steven Berlin Johnson Blog [1.6.09]
Time to look beyond the crisis, Jeffrey Sachs, BusinessDay – New Zealand [1.6.09]
The Poor Man’s Burden, Jeffrey Sachs, Foreign Policy [1.6.09]
Genomics, Juan Enriquez, FLYP [1.6.09]
Should Congress Put a Cap on Executive Pay?, Robert H. Frank, The New York Times [1.6.09]
Annual panto of greed and power may be in its last season, Quentin Peel, The Financial Times [1.6.09]
Don’t give that negative news too much thought, Eric Weiner, New York Newsday [1.6.09]
Warning: More Doom Ahead, Nouriel Roubini, Foreign Policy [1.6.09]

___Monday________________________
Fighting Off Depression, Paul Krugman, The New York Times [1.5.09]
The Making of a Mess, Martin Wolf, Foreign Affairs [1.5.09]
Nixon’s the One — to Imitate on Education, Matt Miller, The New York Times [1.5.09]
A Generation With More than Hand-Eye Coordination, Don Tapscott, The New York Times [1.5.09]