More MPE With the Political Economists (LIVE)
More MPE with Professor Ray Horton
This final session features Professors Glenn Hubbard and Tano Santos, the faculty who teach the popular course Modern Political Economy at Columbia Business School. Hubbard is the director of the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business, Dean Emeritus, and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School; and Santos is the director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing and Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Asset Management and Finance at Columbia Business School. Sandi Wright, director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise,...
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How Social Entrepreneurs Are Building a Better Economy, With Sandra Navalli
More MPE with Professor Ray Horton
This session of More MPE focuses on the increasing importance of social entrepreneurship and the unique role the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise plays in supporting social entrepreneurship in the United States and around the world. Our guest is Sandra Navalli OAM ’03, the managing director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise. She first proposed and now oversees the development of the distinctive and highly successful Tamer Fund for Social Ventures, which supports social entrepreneurs by drawing on the financial and human resources of the center, the Business School, and Columbia...
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Can We Engineer Our Way Out of Global Warming? with Gernot Wagner
More MPE with Professor Ray Horton
In another session devoted to climate change, we focus on an unconventional way of halting global warming known as solar geo-engineering. In this session, host Professor Ray Horton speaks with Gernot Wagner, faculty director of the Climate Knowledge Initiative at the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise and senior lecturer at Columbia Business School. Wagner is an expert in engineering solutions to the problem of climate change. The conversation with Wagner begins with the meaning of solar geo-engineering, a technique that promises to play a role in halting global warming by surrounding...
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Talking Europe, with Tano Santos
More MPE with Professor Ray Horton
In this session of More MPE, host Professor Ray Horton speaks with Tano Santos about Europe. Santos is the director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham and Dodd Investing and Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Asset Management and Finance at Columbia Business School. The conversation begins with talking about the major problems facing Europe today, which Santos believes are two-fold. The first and most obvious problem is the war between Russia and Ukraine. Europe has a huge stake in containing Russia’s desire to expand its influence westward, but Europe’s response to the invasion of...
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How “Woke” Should Business Leaders Be? with Vanessa Burbano
More MPE with Professor Ray Horton
In this session of More MPE, we focus on an issue that bedevils many business leaders: Should they speak out on socio-political issues? Host Professor Ray Horton speaks with Vanessa Burbano, the Sidney Taurel Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. Her award-winning research addresses the question. We began by talking about how she became interested in the question. Before entering academia, Burbano worked for several years in the private sector in positions that led her to wonder about the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and...
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Will We Avoid Catastrophic Climate Change? with Bruce Usher
More MPE with Professor Ray Horton
There are lots of things to be bummed about these days. Climate change is at the top of Professor Ray Horton’s list because of the scale of the threat it poses to humankind and because, in his opinion, humankind lacks the ability to contain it. Fortunately, we have Columbia Business School colleagues who are both more knowledgeable and less pessimistic. In this episode of More MPE, host Professor Ray Horton speaks with Bruce Usher, co-director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise; Elizabeth B. Strickler ’86 and Mark T. Gallogly ’86 Faculty Director; and Professor of...
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The Redistributive Effects of AI on Profits and Politics, with Sandra Matz
More MPE with Professor Ray Horton
Artificial intelligence, according to some, is far and away the most important innovation in history with the capacity to bring unprecedented good and unprecedented evil to humankind. In this episode of More MPE, host Professor Ray Horton speaks with Sandra Matz, the David W. Zalaznick Associate Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. Matz begins by distinguishing big data and artificial intelligence, the former being the raw material the latter uses for its designer’s purposes, which revolve around “profiling” individuals to identify who might be amenable to...
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Dispelling the Myths of Global Migration, with Dan Wang and Sandra Portocarrero
More MPE with Professor Ray Horton
The world’s people are migrating in record numbers with wide-ranging effects on the nations they are leaving and entering. To discuss international migration are two students of the subject from Columbia Business School, migrants themselves. Dan Wang is the co-director of the Tamer Center for Social Enterprise and Lambert Family Associate Professor of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School. Sandra Portocarrero is a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia Business School, who studies undocumented entrepreneurs. The conversation begins with an overview of international...
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Climate Change: Its Economic Impact and How We Should Respond, with Geoffrey Heal
More MPE with Professor Ray Horton
In this episode of More MPE, host Professor Ray Horton speaks with Geoffrey Heal, faculty leader of the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics and Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School. More MPE devotes three sessions to climate change because it is the paramount issue facing the businesses, governments, and societies of the world. An economist and conservationist, Heal’s teaching and research has left an indelible mark on the School. That it stands out as the leader in business school education in climate change is due...
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Talking Politics, with Glenn Hubbard
More MPE with Professor Ray Horton
In this episode of More MPE, host Professor Ray Horton speaks politics American-style with Glenn Hubbard, director of the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business; Dean Emeritus; and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School. Hubbard is the School’s most knowledgeable observer of American politics. A practitioner too, his career with the School has been interrupted twice by important assignments in the nation’s capital. The conversation begins with a discussion of the meaning of political economy, which builds on the training of...
info_outlineIn this episode of More MPE, host Professor Ray Horton speaks politics American-style with Glenn Hubbard, director of the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business; Dean Emeritus; and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School.
Hubbard is the School’s most knowledgeable observer of American politics. A practitioner too, his career with the School has been interrupted twice by important assignments in the nation’s capital.
The conversation begins with a discussion of the meaning of political economy, which builds on the training of the host in political science, the guest in economics, and reflects both Horton and Hubbard’s experience teaching the popular elective course Modern Political Economy.
One of the big issues in American politics is the rise of populism manifested in the form of Donald Trump. Hubbard traces this back to the decline in America’s manufacturing base caused by China’s ascendancy as a goods-producer in the late 20th century. Discussion then turns to whether populism will lead to authoritarianism, not just in the United States but Europe as well.
The conversation shifts to the forthcoming presidential campaign and election. Hubbard is not convinced that Trump and Biden ultimately will be the candidates of their respective parties, though he confesses that he wouldn’t bet on it in the moment. Befitting his status as an old-school Republican, he has little good to say about Trump’s presidential record and nothing good to say about Biden’s. In the end he identifies his preferred candidate.
The last part of the conversation revolves around changes in Columbia Business School during his deanship in the 2004-2019 period, including a clearer educational philosophy emphasizing the importance of translating theory into practice, the funding of the School’s two new buildings in the new Manhattanville campus, and the emergence of the Tamer Center as a critical asset of the School. In 2023, the School’s MBA program was ranked as the world’s best.
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R. Glenn Hubbard (Columbia Business School)
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