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Partha Mohanram, a professor of accounting at Columbia University and an expert on financial disclosure, agrees that firms that co-locate are at a huge advantage because as exchanges are charging for the service, it can't be considered equal access, even if the service is being offered to everyone. "To say that all high-frequency trading is bad and should be banned is an overreaction, but if preferred access is being sold, that is a problem that should be addressed," he says...
...infamously long hours, with employers offering few systems to help working mothers keep a manageable balance between their jobs and families. "Because of the very high price of child-rearing in Korea, it may prove more economical to stay behind helping children to do better in the school," says Professor Chang Pil Wha of Seoul's Ewha Womans University. Finding a job after maternity leave can also be an uphill battle...
...economics student, hopes to eventually return to South Korea as a professor, a position that would enable her to pursue a career and, one day, a family. But she knows that other Korean women may not be as lucky, and their needs aren't being met by a plan that accommodates shoe choice over equal opportunity in the workplace. "They are saying that they are doing many things for women, but we do not see any noticeable changes," she says. "They are wasting citizens' money out of the tax that they pay. We don't want pink parking spots." What...
...name companies. Which should, among other things, help reduce the dangerous overconcentration of capital and risk that made the present crisis so dangerous and devastating. "If the risk-taking spreads out to these smaller institutions, it is no longer a systemic threat," according to Matthew Richardson, a finance professor at New York University. "And innovation is spreading out too. This is a good thing...
What's an example of when you've challenged a professor? I had one international politics class where the professor was obsessed with global warming. It's all he talked about. So one day I raised my hand and said, "In the '70s we heard about global cooling, and now it's global warming. Who's right?" Other students are really looking for someone to say [professors' views] aren't the only idea out there. I feel like sometimes schools are teaching young people what to think and not how to think. (Read "The Global Warming Survival Guide...