Prof. Brian Leiter

Peter Higgs, physicist who unlocked mysteries of the universe, dies aged 94

...Higgs’s name would “be remembered as long as we do physics in the form of the Higgs Boson”, Prof Brian Cox, the British physicist and TV personality, said in a post on X....

April 9, 2024

News in-depthDementia

Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi falls short of blockbuster status in faltering US rollout

...“Even in an expert treatment centre like ours, it requires a heavy lift in terms of resources and rallying the hospital system to implement these drugs,” said Prof Gil Rabinovici, a neurologist at San Francisco...

April 22, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

FT Alphaville

Can a rest be as good as a change for the Bank of England?

...Prof. Tenreyro on the other hand has been much more explicit in saying that rates are too high at present as she told the Treasury Committee in the wake of the February MPR (see above)....

March 17, 2023

Executive MBA

Executive MBA Ranking 2022: rising in east Asia

...“We were imposing ‘one size fits all’, but there are clearly people who have different preferences, different types of jobs and family situations,” says Brian Bushee, senior vice dean of teaching and learning...

October 16, 2022

US presidential election 2020

Schwarzman defended Trump at CEO meeting on election results

...Even if you think what Mr Trump is doing is not going to work, it is very important not to just wait around to see how others respond,” Prof Snyder told the group, according to Prof Sonnenfeld....

November 14, 2020

Transcript

Tech Tonic: US-China Tech Race — Spies and Lies (Part One)

...Brian Sullivan joins us this morning . . ....

March 30, 2022

FT Live

Finance Disrupted at TNW Conference

Shaking The Foundations Of Finance | Formerly Future of Finance

Disease control and prevention

China declared malaria-free after 70-year eradication campaign

...Prof Therese Hesketh, director of the Centre for Global Health at Zhejiang University, said the government fanfare around the malaria announcement was another example of Beijing’s growing emphasis on “health...

June 30, 2021

News in-depthDavy Group

Ireland’s Davy up for sale after bond scandal drew political backlash

...Three key Davy figures, including its chief executive Brian McKiernan, stepped down last weekend....

March 12, 2021

Coronavirus treatment

Secret ingredients behind the breakthrough Covid vaccines

...“These nanoparticles can give a magic kick to the formulation,” said Prof Edwards....

November 20, 2020

US politics & policy

Biden appoints women from Obama and Clinton teams to top jobs

...Prof Rouse would be the first African-American to lead the council....

November 30, 2020

UK immigration

Care homes jobs should be on post-Brexit ‘shortage’ list

...The unusual circumstances had made the committee more willing to include some professions on the list simply because it was “sensible” to do so, Prof Bell said....

September 29, 2020

The Future of Money

Regulators battle over US fintech charters Premium

...“It is about concentrated power across industries,” Prof Omarova says. “Power of that kind always translated to political power....

October 12, 2020

News in-depthThe Big Read

US coronavirus surge: ‘It’s a failure of national leadership’

...“It’s a failure of leadership in the national government,” Prof Bloom says....

July 17, 2020

Business school

Business schools are reckoning with their poor record on race

...It is another way of saying that liberal white man knows best,” Prof Empson says....

July 29, 2020

Energy Source

John Podesta: Democrats will have to ‘pick their shots’ on energy Premium

...“It does seem like the lamest of efforts by the lamest duck of presidents and my sense is that Biden will halt anything like this as soon as he takes office,” said Prof Tobias....

November 17, 2020

FT Live

US Pharma and Biotech Summit

Strategies for innovation, pricing and access

Coal

Trump campaign for US coal undermined by industry slump

...“The problem we’ve had is the (economic) data isn’t like riding a bike downhill — it’s like being in an elevator where the cable’s snapped,” Prof Godby said....

May 18, 2020

Special ReportThe UK’s Entrepreneurs

Scale-ups prioritised in UK productivity drive

...Prof Hart believes scale-ups can make a significant contribution to productivity, though that is a “slow-burner”....

November 8, 2019

Letter

Uncertainties surround spent nuclear fuel disposal

...in Energy Policy, University of Aberdeen Prof Andy Stirling Science Policy Research Unit, Sussex Energy Group, University of Sussex Prof Brian Wynne Professor Emeritus of Science Studies, Lancaster...

November 20, 2019

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

Would you send a Christmas card to a stranger?

...In 2014, 40 years after the original study, the psychologist Brian Meier repeated the Kunz experiment yet again....

December 13, 2019

Long Story Short

A selection of the FT’s biggest stories and best reads every Friday

...But Airbnb chief executive Brian Chesky isn’t popping the champagne....

May 8, 2020

Coronavirus

Coronavirus may create lasting workplace change

...Even though the assumption is that it is better to communicate more frequently with staff — in part to drown out misinformation on social media — Brian Kropp, chief of research in Gartner’s human resources...

February 28, 2020

FT CollectionsInequality today

Should we even be aiming for social mobility?

...Prof Roger Brown Southampton, UK...

May 6, 2019

ObituaryFilm

Godfrey Gao, actor and model, 1984-2019

...“The [Chinese] industry is not unionised and a culture of working until the job is done is the norm there,” said Prof Berry....

December 6, 2019

Anjana Ahuja

Science sets out to conquer the contested art of darkness

...Prof Cui was so struck by how black the material looked when it came out of the oven that he decided to measure its optical properties....

September 25, 2019

News in-depthThe Big Read

Taking the credit: can universities tackle academic fraud?

...“There are those that uphold the idea that someone deserves to be a co-author simply because they brought in money or are high status,” says Brian Martin, a social scientist and emeritus professor at the...

September 8, 2019

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