University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business Podcast Series

This broadcast features Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance. Zingales is also a member of the Committee on Capital Market Regulation. He reports on the committee's findings regarding concerns that excessive regulation is stifling the public securities markets and causing U.S. markets to lose business to foreign competitiors.

The long string of major financial crises that beset emerging markets from 1994 to 2002 was caused by a variety of factors, according to John Taylor, former U.S. Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs. Among those were countries trying to peg their exchange rates while inflation at home exceeded inflation abroad. "Essentially that means your exchange rate gets out of line or overvalued," he said. "Eventually currencies depreciated. On top of that, many emerging-market countries had borrowed in dollars, but their earnings were in local currency. A sudden depreciation meant they had to pay a lot more dollars back, which led to a debt problem." The International Monetary Fund's unpredictable responses to the crises further complicated the problem, Taylor said.

At Chicago's Business School, Zonis teaches courses on International Political Economy, Leadership, and E-Commerce. He was the first professor at the Business School to teach a course on the effects of digital technologies on global business. He also consults to corporations and professional asset management firms throughout the world, helping them to identify, assess, and manage their political risks in the changing global environment. Zonis is a co-founder and Chairman of DSD, a software development company based in Moscow and Chicago. What unites these activities is Zonis' unique awareness of the intersections of politics, economics, and emergent technologies.

Michael Mussa, AM '70, PhD '74, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics. He served as Economic Counselor and Director of the Department of Research at the International Monetary Fund from 1991-2001, where he was responsible for advising the Management of the Fund and the Fund's Executive Board on broad issues of economic policy and for providing analysis of ongoing developments in the world economy. By appointment of President Ronald Reagan, Mussa served as a member of the US Council of Economic Advisers from August 1986 to September 1988. He was a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago (1976-91) and was on the faculty of the Department of Economics at the University of Rochester (1971-76).

Austan D. Goolsbee, Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, currently works as a member of the U.S. Census Advisory Committee, a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a columnist for the New York Times.

Demographics are the "sleeper driver" that will affect several other trends, according to Paul Laudicina, managing officer and chairman of the board for A.T. Kearney. The author of World Out of Balance, he put demographics at the top of the list of five drivers of change; others include the "new consumer" and natural resources and environmental regulation and activism. "Demographics is clearly driving lots of the other trends," he said. "Certainly in the last 50 years we've had greater advances in life expectancy than in the last 5,000."

Hyperion executive chairman chats with Dean Snyder about how his view of leadership encompasses employees.

Former students and colleagues take a look at Friedman's intellectual contributions as well as his life.

UBS Investment Bank president Ken Moelis looks at the industry and his career.

Speaking at a Graduate Business Council event, Romney looked back at the tool set that had enabled him to meet new challenges throughout his career - from running the 2000 Olympics to providing health insurance for all Massachusetts residences.

Youngest IMF chief economists discusses global imbalances in savings, investments and economic growth as part of the Global Leadership Series

Mulcahy spoke to students at the third USA Today CEO forum at the Hyde Park Center

Steven Levitt, Alvin H. Baum Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago and author of the New York Times bestseller Freakonomics, regaled the students with cases from his research. One example illustrated why Chicago emphasizes the importance of hard data for all kinds of decision-making.

Chicago ABC 7 News anchor Linda Yu discussed China's rapid growth - both its affect on global business as well as her own family's heritage - at a meeting of the International Roundtable.

Nobel Laureate Gary Becker suggests several options for how governments and businesses around the world could adapt to high energy prices. He spoke as part of the Global Leadership Series at an event in London.

In a Distinguished Speaker Series address May 18 at the Hyde Park Center, Pace endorsed making the most of any position.

Katrina forces the agency to become even bigger, CEO Jack McGuire says

Chicago Booth MBA Career Services invited 5 panelists to describe the paths they took on the way to the positions they currently hold

RadioShack CEO Claire Babrowski spoke at the spring conference of the Committee of 200, an organization of top female entrepreneurs and executives.

In a question and answer session with Chicago Booth Dean Edward Snyder, Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan, AB '81, MBA '82 discusses hedge funds, emerging markets in China and India, and more.