“‘The risk is that we’re going to hit the brakes very, very hard.’ ” — Larry Summers Almost a full year of monetary-policy tightening by the Federal Reserve appears to be having little impact on price...
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Harvard Kennedy School professor proposes to tax crypto over environmental damage
As 2023 begins, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies continue to be a hot subject of controversy due to the considerable attention they have received about their potential negative environmental impacts...
Emotional Intelligence In The C-Suite Starts With Our Kids
Jenny Woo, CEO of Mind Brain Emotion Jenny Woo Can leadership skills be taught? Yes, and it starts as early as age five. This holiday season, consider giving your favourite kids (and their parents) th...
The Divestment Movement Has Cost Organizations Billions Of Dollars
IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR DIVESTINVEST – Co-founder and chief investment strategist of GMO Jeremy … [+] Grantham lays out the financial case for divestment at the Fossil Fuel Divestment State ...
Harvard Research Paper Tells Governments And Central Banks To Hold Bitcoin ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     A Harvard paper has urged central banks to hold Bitcoin as a way to circumnavigate sanctions. Only El Salvador has elevated Bitcoin to a national cur...
Central banks can use Bitcoin to fight off sanctions: Harvard research
A research paper published at Harvard university highlighted how central banks can use Bitcoin (BTC) to hedge against financial sanctions from fiat reserve issuers. A working paper, titled “Hedging S...
From Harvard, Of All Places, Comes An Endorsement For (Some) Central Banks To Hodl Crypto
A Harvard economist believes Bitcoin can help countries hedge their risk against international sanctions. getty Just as plummeting values and an infectious scandal have darkened the sky for cryptocurr...
FDA sees limits to omicron-booster studies from Columbia, Harvard
The Food and Drug Administration said two studies this week showing that the new omicron boosters weren’t that much better than the old shots were too small to come to any real conclusions. Scie...
Ex-CEIBS Educator John Quelch Steps Down As University Of Miami Business School Dean
University of Miami Herbert Business School Dean John Quelch. Ethan Covey Photography International business and education expert John Quelch will step down as dean of the University of Miami Herbert ...
Best Universities for Blockchain 2022: Harvard University
Harvard University has launched three blockchain initiatives including the Digital Finance Initiative, the HLS Blockchain & Fintech Initiative in both 2020 and 2021. Guest speakers have included S...
Telos Brings Blockchain to Ivy League Campuses With Hack Boston & Workshops At Harvard University
Blockchain technology is of great interest to participants of hackathons. Therefore, Telos will host the first crypto hackathon ever on an Ivy League Campus. None other than the renowned Harvard Unive...
Harvard economist Larry Summers says the Fed should keep hiking rates
The Federal Reserve has been intensely criticized this year for failing to do enough to rein in inflation. Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that prices rose again in August followi...
Fed chief Powell ‘did what he needed to do’ in Jackson Hole, Larry Summers says
“ ‘The Fed is positioned as well as it can be — given the credibility losses and mistakes that there have been — with these remarks to manage things going forward.’ ” — Larry Summers Former U.S. Treas...
The Top 5 Habits Of Ivy League Bound College Students
NEW HAVEN, CT – Yale University Campus in New Haven, Connecticut. (Photo by Christopher … [+] Capozziello/Getty Images) Getty Images And just like that, students are saying farewell to a s...
American Universities Are Losing Chinese Students To Rivals: U.S.-China Business Forum
“What we’re seeing at the moment is softness in the enthusiasm of Chinese students and their parents … [+]s to enroll in U.S. institutions,” John Quelch, dean of the University of Miami He...
Close The Gap Between Discovery Research And Patient Care: Cancer Moonshot Pathways
“New, transformative technologies will improve and simplify screening and we should prioritize these … [+] advancement efforts” Andrea Myers Note: President Joe Biden in February lau...
Filecoin Foundation teams up with Harvard University- The Cryptonomist
On 27 July, the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) announced that it will support an initiative with Harvard University’s Library Innovation Lab (LIL) called the “Democratizing Open ...
Harvard University and Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web Plan to Preserve Digital Information – Bitcoin News
On July 27, the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) announced it will be supporting an initiative with Harvard University’s Library Innovation Lab (LIL) called the “Democratizing Open...
Ripple’s CEO Slam US Rep for Calling XRP Security, Says He Was “Magna Cum Laude at Harvard Law” Preferring Political Agenda Over Law
– Advertisement – Ripple’s CEO and General Counsel strongly opposed US Rep. Brad Sherman’s anti-XRP comments. Ripple executives have reacted to comments made by Brad Sherman, D-Californi...
U.S., China Leaders May Be On Track To Meet In November – China Think-Tank Chief
U.S. President Joe Biden listens while meeting virtually with Xi Jinping, China’s president, in the … [+] Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, Nov. 15, 2...
Harvard expert warns of potential ‘harm’ to index investing, as Republican bill takes on ‘woke fund managers’
Senators and legal experts tussled Tuesday over the merits of a Republican bill that aims to reduce the voting power of the three index-investing giants — BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street. Republi...
A Harvard Professor’s Loony And Sadistic Suggestions For Crypto Regulation
Yikes! Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff really told us what the elites think of the common man in his “What’s the Crypto Regulation Endgame?” opinion piece. Spoiler alert: they don’t want you to have ...
A Harvard Professor’s Loony And Sadistic Suggestion For Crypto Regulation
Yikes! Harvard professor Kenneth Rogoff really told us what the elites think of the common man in his “What’s the Crypto Regulation Endgame?” opinion piece. Spoiler alert: they don’t want you to have ...
Harvard economics professor says crypto anonymity will eventually be curbed %
As interest rates rise and cryptocurrency market value falls, many industry speculators are left wondering whether this is the beginning of the end for the crypto bubble. Kenneth Rogoff, a former chie...
Buy now, pay later is not a boom, it’s a bubble, Harvard fellow says
Most people love the convenience of buy now, pay later. Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, installment payments have exploded in popularity along with a general surge in online shopping. Ini...
A Harvard economist says the economy looks bad right now, but a recession isn’t a sure thing. It all depends on these 2 factors
These days, the economy seems to be on pins and needles. Stocks are crashing, investors are jittery, and voices continue to murmur that a recession is nearly upon us. Things look bad right now, but on...
Supreme Court Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson Says She’ll Recuse From Harvard Affirmative Action Case
Topline Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson said Wednesday she’ll recuse herself from an upcoming case challenging Harvard University’s affirmative action policy if she’s confirmed to th...
How America’s Wealthiest Colleges Are Getting Richer Faster Than Schools With Small Endowments
Harvard has America’s largest endowment at $53 billion as of the end of the 2021 fiscal year. Getty The booming stock market of late 2020 and early 2021 produced an exceptional year for college ...
How To Age Happily – Surfing From Fluid To Crystallised Intelligence
Arthur C. Brooks Arthur Brooks has boundless energy and a contagious enthusiasm. A musician-turned-professor-turned-think tank CEO-turned-Atlantic magazine journalist-turned-Harvard faculty superstar,...