Columbia Business School certainly has impressive visitors. Last week I attended a panel discussion on financial innovation.
Panelists:
Panelists:
- David Abrams - Founder of Abrams Capital
- Caroline Baum - Bloomberg News columnist (often on TV)
- Ed Conard - Partner at Bain Capital
- Wilson Ervin - Senior Advisor to the CEO of Credit Suisse
- Barney Frank - US Congressman
- Gary Gensler - Chairman of Commodity Futures Trading Commission
- Linda Gibbs - Deputy Mayor for Healh and Human Services, NYC
- Alicia Glen - Managing Director of Urban Investment Group at Goldman Sachs
- Bruce Greenwald - Columbia Professor and "guru to Wall Street's gurus"
- Blythe Masters - Head of Global Commodities at JPMorgan Chase
- Robert Solow - Nobel Prize Winner in Economics
- Andrew Sorkin - Co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk Bow
- Peter Stringham - Chairman and CEO of Young and Rubicam Group
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I enjoyed the debate but quite a few of my classmates looked pretty confused. Doesn't everyone know the risks of underwriting sub-prime CMBS debt obligations?
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