Speakers in the News

Carly Fiorina talks leadership, innovation in Lansing

LANSING — California businesswoman Carly Fiorina came to Michigan on Tuesday to talk about leadership with a crowd of more than 400 people at a Michigan…

Maajid Nawaz calls on David Cameron to create a ‘counter-extremism czar’

(International Business Times) - "To make sure there is seamless policy co-ordination across government, [the czar] needs to be accountable under Downing Street, not different secretary…

Stiglitz, De Blasio and Warren team up against inequality

Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Laureate in economics, has teamed up with New York Major Bill De Blasio and US Senator Elizabeth Warren to propose a…

Paulson Downplays China’s New Infrastructure Bank

(The Wall Street Journal) - Politicians rarely agree, let alone three U.S. Treasury Secretaries. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson played down the significance of China’s…

‘Shark Tank’ at the White House: Daymond John named entrepreneurship ambassador

Daymond John, an investor on the reality series "Shark Tank," was one of nine business founders named Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship by the White House on…

Gingrich Says De Blasio Social Contract Doomed Without Specifics

(Bloomberg) - New York’s mayor intends to release a “progressive agenda” in Washington, a Democratic rendition of the “contract” Gingrich offered as speaker in 1994.

Paulson on China-US Relations

Growing GOP field ‘gonna be a zoo’: Jim Nussle

Piketty, Stiglitz and Our Renewed Interest in Inequality

(The Huffington Post) - Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate, has just published The Great Divide, a kind of application of Piketty to the United States. (Disclaimer:…

How Carly Fiorina is responding to questions about her HP firing

(The Washington Post) - Newly-minted GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina on Sunday forcefully pushed back on critiques of her tenure as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, saying the underlying…

Nobel Laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz to speak at BCC on income inequality

Baltimore. Ferguson. Staten Island. Beyond the individual events and decades-old tension and distrust between police and public, there is a common link. Nobel Laureate economist…

Presidential candidate Carly Fiorina delivers SNHU commencement speech

MANCHESTER, N.H. —Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina gave a commencement speech at Southern New Hampshire University’s graduation ceremony Saturday morning, ending her two-day visit to…