Author: LawrenceHecht

Biased analysts abounded in the 90’s. Today, an overflowing room of analysts gathered at the first Investorside Conference to defend their profession. The main themes were the growth of the independent research industry and ways to eliminate incentives for research to be influenced by covered […]

Sitting and listening to 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Professor Wangari Maathai, I couldn’t help but compare her to Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela. Lincoln’s speech at Cooper Union Great Hall in 1860 propelled him to the Republican Party’s presidential nomination. Mandela is the last […]

George Washington admitted to chopping down a cherry tree. Retold for over 200 years, this story demonstrates that cheating is wrong even if you won’t get caught. David Callahan launched his new book, The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead, […]

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s Global Settlement and former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt’s Regulation Fair Disclosure have changed the way Wall Street research is performed. A panel sponsored by the New York Society of Security Analysts reviewed these changes and who is poised to […]

Google’s upcoming IPO of several billion dollars illustrates the importance of information search and retrieval. Today’s event, Using Taxonomies to Organize Enterprise Information, demonstrated the limitations of automated methods like Google and the continued significance of real people for the management of information. In fact, […]

Bloomberg official and an advocate strongly disagreed about the using zoning to create manufacturing jobs in New York City. Speaking at an Association of the Bar of New York City event, Adam Friedman, Executive Director of the New York Industrial Retention Network explained how real […]

New York Times economics columnist Jeff Madrick argued that American foreign policy hurts the domestic economy. In his role as the New School’s president, former U.S. Senator Bob Kerry was the master of ceremonies for this lecture, which is the first of a series of […]

Ben Gilad, Ph.D., President of the Academy of Competitive Intelligence, gave a presentation about why executives do not use competitive intelligence. Psychological bias causes many executives to overlook facts and logic. Faulty thinking arises when a personal quality dominates a person’s other forms of cognition. […]

I watched this roundtable discussion on tv. It was moderated by Charlie Rose. Participants included Pascal Bruckner, essayist; Christopher Caldwell, The Weekly Standard, Ariane Chebel d’Appollonia, Institut d’Etudes Politiques; Gerard Grunberg, Institut d’Etudes Politiques; Jim Hoagland, The Washington Post; Tony Judt, NYU; Sylvia Kauffmann, Le […]

Amanda Burden gave a speech and was questioned by Crain’s journalists Greg David and Stephan Friedman. Ms. Burden gave the goal of saving manufacturing lip service, but wasn’t too excited about the garment district. Interestingly, she said they were developing an industrial policy to support […]

Occurring hours before the latest unemployment figures were released, the panelists had a positive outlook on the job market. In fact, James Brown of the NY Labor Department predicted an oncoming labor shortage. Erica Groshe of the New York Federal Reserve noted that despite a […]

Representatives from most forms of media gathered to debate the advertising and marketing effectiveness of their mediums. The main theme was that the world’s change and consumers react to advertising different. Everybody agreed that a mix of different advertising mediums is important. The event took […]