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Mortgage securitization, Measuring Bank Risk, Taxpayer returns from Bailouts, Dividends during a pandemic, and the principal-agent problem in structuring contracts with banks for bailouts.  Prof Amiyatosh Purnanandam is professor finance at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, and the chair of the finance area. His research focuses on corporate finance, banking, and fina...

Demystifying the Business of Performing Arts, "Sacred," the movie, Learning from Germany on public media, and Organizations for people that succeed. Prof. William Baker is a Professor and Journalist-in-Residence at Fordham University in NY.  He is also a Professor of media & entertainment at IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain, and President Emeritus of WNET-Thirteen, New York’s public...

Cognitive and Neurobiological Imaging , Human Connectome Project for disordered emotional states, Imaging systems for oral cancer screening, and Better camera designs for convolutional neural networks using synthetic images Prof Brian A. Wandell is a professor at the Psychology Department of Stanford University.  He is also a member of Electrical Engineering, Ophthalmology, and the Graduate S...

History of oil prices and possible future paths Dr. Rouben Indjikian, an adjunct professor of energy, commodities, trade finance, digital economy, and international economics at Webster University in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Indjikian had a distinguished career of nearly 30 years at UNCTAD (The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ) where, as an economist and manager, he was in charg...

Supply chain risk in pharmaceutical manufacturing and the advantages of continuous manufacturing  Prof. Fernando Muzzio is a Professor of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University and the Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center in Structured Organic Particulate Systems. Prof. Muzzio has authored over 250 peer-reviewed papers and numerous book chapters and patents. He...

Logistics Manager's Index as a leading indicator of economic activity, Supply Chain Financing, and Effects of COVID on the global supply chain Prof. Dale Rogers is a Professor of Business at Arizona State University. He is also the Director of the Frontier Economies Logistics Lab and the Co-Director of the Internet edge Supply Chain Lab at ASU. Dale is a leading researcher in the fields of reverse...

Cancer - why have we failed, and how can we get better? The quest to find and destroy the first cell to minimize human strife. Prof. Azra Raza is a Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS ( Myelodysplastic Syndrome) Center at Columbia University. She is a practicing oncologist seeing 30-40 cancer patients weekly. She worked with President Clinton designing Breakthrough Developments in Scienc...

Reasons for the science-policy disconnect, statistical inference, threats to scalability, publication bias, and speculation on global economic effects of COVID.  Dr. Omar Al-Ubaydli is the Director of Research at Derasat, a think tank in the Kingdom of Bahrain, an affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, and affiliated senior research fellow at the Mercatus Cent...

Effects of Immigrants on Firms’ Foreign Location Choice and Performance and Immigrant Entrepreneurs as Pathways to Foreign VC Investments Dr. Zeke Hernandez is the Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Associate Professor at the Wharton Business School. He studies global strategy, with an emphasis on how immigrants and innovation help firms successfully globalize.

Artificial Intelligence, Automated Science, Self-driving Scientific Experimentation, Active Learning, High Throughput Screening, R&D optimization Prof. Robert Murphy is a Professor of Computational Biology, Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, and Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University.  He is also an Honorary Professor of Biology at the University of Freiburg, Germany, Fe...

Causes of Cancer, Healthcare access, Breast Cancer, Emerging Techniques in Breast Cancer Surgery, SHAVE trial Prof. Anees Chagpar is a Professor in the Department of Surgery at Yale School of Medicine. She is a well-known breast surgical oncologist who participates in investigator-initiated and cooperative group clinical trials, as well as translational and clinical research. The results of one of...

The economic impact of LGBT rights in firms and countries, policy trends, wage gaps and reasons for optimism Prof. M. V. Lee Badgett is a professor of economics and co-director of the Center for Employment Equity at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also a Williams Distinguished Scholar at UCLA’s Williams Institute. Her research focuses on economic inequality for LGBT people, includi...

Computer Assisted Mobility, Intelligent Wheelchair design, Human/Machine interactions, and Human Engineering Research Laboratories. Prof. Rory Cooper holds several positions including Associate Dean for Inclusion and Paralyzed Veterans of America, Professor of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, and Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also the Founding Director and the VA...

Cheaper and faster sterilization of PPE, HPV eliminating antiviral and anticancer agents,  Modulating DNA with polyamides, Green Chemistry  Prof. James Bashkin is a Professor of Chemistry and Bio-Chemistry at the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Prior to this, he was an NIH postdoctoral fellow at Harvard before joining Monsanto Corporate Research, which later became Pharmacia and then...

Human evolution, Out of Africa migrations, Neanderthals and Denisovans, DNA methylation effects on the body parts, Gene organizer, Epigenetics in assessing ancient environments and behavior of humans. Prof. Liran Carmel is a professor of computational biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Liran has won many awards, including the Michael Milken prize, the Farkash award, and the E...

Trust as an operating system, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Types of leaders, Entrepreneurial leadership, Creating successful companies and Startups  Joel Peterson is the 12-year Chairman of JetBlue Airways , retiring in May 2020, former Chairman of The Hoover Institution , and the Founding Partner of Peterson Partners , a Salt Lake City-based investment management firm with $1B under managem...

Antimicrobial research, surrogate invertebrate hosts , in vivo high throughput screening, methicillin-resistant MRSA, colonization, and the need for fast and accurate diagnostics. Prof. Eleftherios Mylonakis is a Professor of Infectious Diseases at Brown University and the Chief of Infectious Diseases at Rhode Island and Miriam Hospitals. He is also the Director of the COBRE Center for Antimicrobi...

Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization, Simons Observatory, Origins of the Universe, Hubble constant discrepancy, Multiverse  Prof. Brian Keating is a Professor of Physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. Prof. Keating's research area is the study of the cosmic microwave background and its relationship to the orig...

Artificial Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence, Non-human intelligence, Machine Reasoning, Policy, and the AI future of society Prof Bart Selman is a Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University. He is the incoming President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the main international professional society for AI researchers and practitioners. La...

The start-up ecosystem in life sciences, Stakeholders in a start-up, Basic v/s translational research, and health systems  Mr. Jim Jordan is the President of the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse and the Managing Director of the Accelerator Funds. Jim has served as a Distinguished Service Professor of Healthcare & Biotechnology Management at Carnegie Mellon University. He has written tw...

Adaptive control for COVID-19 in India, A field experiment for health insurance in India, the evolution of influenza with vaccination Prof Anup Malani is a Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and a Professor at the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago.  He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Boston, a Senior Fellow at t...

Battery technologies, species of electrolytes, materials science innovation, the safety of products, and the need for inclusion in education Prof. Steve Greenbaum is a Professor of Physics at Hunter College in the City University of New York and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Prof. Greenbaum's main research interest involves spectroscopic studies of disordered solids by magnetic resona...

Pharmaceutical R&D trends and costs, Value chain paradigms, Basic v/s translational research, Investment needs, and COVID 19 Prof. Kenneth Kaitin is a professor of Public Health and Medicine at Tufts School of Medicine and the Director of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. He is also an Advisory Professor at Shanghai Medical College at Fudan University in Shanghai, and a consu...

Future of business law, Corporate legal strategy, Turning compliance into a competitive advantage Prof. Robert Bird is a Professor of Business Law and the Chair in Business Ethics at the University of Connecticut. Robert's wide-ranging research focuses on corporate social responsibility, corporate compliance, employment law, legal strategy, and the intersection of law and business. His work has be...

Investment-q paradox,  persistent investment decline, Tobin's q decomposition, asset utilization as a driver of investment rate, and failure of common explanations.   Prof. David Ikenberry was the Chair of Finance at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Associate Dean of the Executive programs. Later he served as the Dean of the Leeds School of Business at the Univ...