Women in Parliaments Global Forum (WIP) has this annual summit discussing several issues related to gender, diversity etc.
One such session was stirringly titled as –” Reverse reality – what if: ‘Lehman Sisters’ or the sisterhood ran G20 and big business”.
Thanks to this speech by Jorg Asmussen of ECB at the panel that I came to know of it. He points how ECB is promoting gender diversity in ECB.
Nice thought though..Lehman sisters…
Mr. Norman Chan, Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority has this nice speech with a provocative title. Obviously central bankers cannot save the world but they try and try hard. But most of the time they put the world into a bigger hole. Infact the fab book Lords of Finance does suggest central bankers in the four economies could have saved us from the great depression. But it was not just them but the politicians who were reluctant to let gold standard go. At the end of the day it is the political system and the historical path which matters. Central bankers are a part of this system and play their own bit.
He begins asking is the world worth saving?
This is one of the most depressing student a PhD student always faces. Hey mate, what are you going to get after doing a PhD? And the head sulks and head fumes as there is no answer…:-)
Doing a PhD at one of India’s most elite B-schools one sees this happening right in front of you. The MBA students keep telling you about their great summer placement, final placement, rupee salary vs dollar ones and so on. And as a PhD student you can only look as if your world is very different and these things do not apply to you..
Anyways. got this email from CPB-Netherlands where there was a seminar on this topic. It seems there is hardly any premium for doing PhD in Dutchland..
Thomson, William of Rochester Univ has a nice note on this. Pretty long one at that too.
He sums up most of the activities/pains/action points of a PhD program..
Nice stuff..
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