CRISIS MANAGEMENT
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November 12, 2008
"Global Threats, Coordinated Responses"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
"The Network of Global Agenda Councils is one example of how like-minded people around the world can address the growing challenges and threats that are no longer confined to a single sector, country or region."
istock
November 4, 2008
"Financial Leaders Go AWOL in the Meltdown"
Op-Ed, Bloomberg
By Ben Heineman, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
"What's happening is a crisis of capitalism, though not because there is a debate about the ultimate virtues of capitalism over socialism -- that argument is long over. Rather, the failure of business leadership on an almost cataclysmic scale has brought front and center the issue of how government should rein in business."
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October 15, 2008
"The Notable Leadership of Salam Fayyad"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad is doing some remarkable things despite having one of the most difficult jobs in the world.
October 8, 2008
"The High Cost of Incompetent Governance"
Op-Ed, Agence Global
By Rami Khouri, Senior Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
In times like this -- global economic crisis -- the dominance of exclusively oil-fueled economies in the Arab World expose a regional lack of competent governance.
AP Photo
October 4, 2008
"The Problem Is Still Falling House Prices"
Op-Ed, Wall Street Journal
By Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University
Martin Felstein discusses the falling prices of housing in the current economic crisis, and the negative impact on individuals with mortgages and financial institutions and individuals currently paying off a mortgage, and the implications of the new legislation on this issue.
RichardMasoner
July 14, 2008
A Tax Credit for Volunteerism
Magazine or Newspaper Article, The Louisiana Weekly
Hurricane Katrina devastated our region in 2005. With the help of volunteers, we have been rebuilding. If oil prices rise high enough to make travel unaffordable for volunteers, our resurrection will falter.
szbluewater
June 16, 2008
"Spirit of Chinese People"
Op-Ed, The Korea Times
By Shacheng Wang, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2007-2008
Shacheng Wang, a predoctoral fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, writes about the response of the Chinese people to the earthquakes that hit Sichuan Province in the spring of 2008. Faced with such a castastrophe, the Chinese people have united in assisting the victims and have shown their true spirit, Wang says.
June 1, 2008
""Six principles for regulatory order""
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor
Lawrence Summers argues that missing from the U.S. financial debate is discussion of "principles describing the properties of any desirable regulatory regime, against which proposals can be evaluated." Among his six principles: ensure that regulators "cannot compete to supervise particular institutions;" and do not allow institutions to determine capital levels "based on risk models of their own design."
Image Credit: Martha Stewart
April 28, 2008
PDP Co-Director Carter Participates in Harvard Oil Shockwave Simulation
Press Release
PDP Co-Director Carter participates in a high-profile crisis simulation examining the economic and security implications of America’s dependency on oil.
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April 15, 2008
Actions Now for the Day After: Findings of the Preventive Defense Day After Project
Testimony
By Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities
PDP Co-Director Ashton B. Carter testifies before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
