Is it important for SOM faculty to speak out on issues of national and international importance?
Yes, I believe it is. Our faculty has been in the middle of some of the hottest national issues. Paul MacAvoy on telecommunications; Ira Millstein on corporate governance; Will Goetzmann and Roger Ibbotson on global finance; Ted Marmor on health care. They are recognized experts and are sought out by the media. Increasingly this is true of our junior faculty, too: Fiona Scott Morton recently wrote a wonderful series of articles for the Financial Times; Ravi Dhar’s research on internet marketing was highlighted in a special Wall Street Journal supplement on E-commerce. This past fall, we ran a series of articles on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times showcasing some of our professors and also some of our prestigious corporate advisory board members. It was a tour de force, if you ask me — articles ranging from Internet policy to the Asian financial crisis to campaign finance reform to corporate strategy. We have also begun a regular one-hour radio program on National Public Radio call
