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In front of a live audience of over 100 people, we taped an episode of our podcast, Is Business Broken? as part of the May 2025 WBUR Festival. WBUR’s Curt Nickisch moderated the discussion, posing questions to – and fielding audience questions for – State Senator Barry Finegold; Andrei Hagiu, Professor of Information Systems at Questrom; Asu Ozdaglar, MathWorks Professor
By Professor Nalin Kulatilaka The biologist E.O. Wilson once famously remarked, “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies” (Wilson, 2009). In this compact diagnosis of modern civilization, Wilson identified a dangerous asymmetry between the evolutionary design of the human brain, the political and cultural systems we still rely upon, and
Why overhaul a course that, for over a decade, has been engaging, highly rated by students, and has enlisted a set of extremely dedicated faculty? Most programs would rest on those laurels. The SM131 introductory class is essentially the gateway to the Questrom curriculum for freshman undergrads and about 1,400 students will take the class each year. It’s not hyperbole
By Professor Nalin Kulatilaka The Gilded Age, a term coined by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner in their 1873 satirical novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, refers to a transformative period in U.S. history from approximately 1870 to 1900. It was characterized by rapid industrialization, technological innovation, and unprecedented economic expansion, but also by stark inequality, political
Is capitalism falling out of favor? Jay L. Zagorsky and H. Sami Karaca, faculty at the Questrom School of Business and the Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets, and Society, conducted a research study to answer that very question. Aided by AI, the professors, alongside student RAs Madison Marchionna and David Kim, scoured 400,000 newspaper articles from the past
The Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets, & Society (MIBMS) Inaugural Summit wasn’t just an event, it was the culmination of a semester’s worth of effort on the part of Questrom undergrad honors students. Each spring, the honors students take on a capstone project to finish out their senior year, the final leg of their Honor Program’s journey. This year, Questrom
Please join us for a lunch event to discuss recent and upcoming changes to pharmaceutical law. How have legal changes over the Biden administration affected the pharmaceutical industry? Which of these changes will persist in the new administration, or be repealed? And what changes might we see prioritized by the new administration? May 9, 2025 12:30 PM-2:00 PM Metcalf Trustee
Michael Salinger, the Jacqueline and Arthur Bahr Professor of Markets, Public Policy, and Law at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, is eager to educate the next generation of leaders through his innovative new course at BU. Capitalism: Justifications and Cinematic Impressions, a course that explores the intersection of traditional economic theory and cinematic analysis, is furthering the conversation of
How do, can and should companies balance short-term pressures with long-term interests? Thursday April 10 & Friday April 11, 2025 Boston University’s Questrom School of Business & WBUR’s City Space As part of Questrom’s new Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets and Society, the seniors in Questrom’s honors program have been preparing research presentations and industry panels to discuss the topic
Join WBUR from May 29 – 31, 2025 for a weekend celebrating WBUR’s 75th anniversary and featuring speakers such as Ina Garten, Roxane Gay, Ira Glass, Jamelle Bouie, Busy Philipps, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Kimberlé Crenshaw and many more. Full schedule to be released in April on the WBUR website.
Rena Conti, Associate Professor and Dean’s Research Scholar at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business attended the White House Cell and Gene Therapy Forum on January 8th to share her research and find solutions to advance access to cell and gene therapy. As a health economist, Conti is a valuable contributor to the discussion of strengthening therapy treatments. Conti has
“We at the Mehrotra Institute recognize that solutions necessitate constructive collaboration among businesses, governments and groups representing consumers, investors and employees.“ In an article with the Wall Street Journal, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and Research at the Questrom School of Business and Co-Director of the Mehrotra Institute for Business, Markets & Society, Marcel Rindisbacher, discussed the vision for the
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