Barack Obama
President Obama Urges Students to Learn to Code
December 21, 2013
“Don’t just buy a new video game. Make one!” President Barack Obama urged on a YouTube video uploaded on the non-profit group Code.org’s website in honor Computer Science Education Week from December 9 to 15. “No one’s born a computer scientist. But with a little hard work, and some math and science, just about anyone can become one,” said Obama. Indeed, we’ve recently reported on initiatives for inmates at prisons to learn the skill, as well as NBA star Chris Bosh’s quest...
December 21, 2013
“Don’t just buy a new video game. Make one!” President Barack Obama urged on a YouTube video uploaded on the non-profit group Code.org’s website in honor Computer Science Education Week from December 9 to 15. “No one’s born a computer scientist. But with a little hard work, and some math and science, just about anyone can become one,” said Obama. Indeed, we’ve recently reported on initiatives for inmates at prisons to learn the skill, as well as NBA star Chris Bosh’s quest...
Legal Education on Trial: Is the Third Year Necessary?
August 31, 2013
A suggestion by President Barack Obama to shrink the duration of law school could buoy the case of people who long have questioned whether law students really need a third year of academic study. But the idea comes as law schools already are struggling with declining enrollment and could be reluctant to cut into their sources of revenue. Third-year law students would 'be better off clerking or practicing in a firm,' President Barack Obama says. The main path to law practice...
August 31, 2013
A suggestion by President Barack Obama to shrink the duration of law school could buoy the case of people who long have questioned whether law students really need a third year of academic study. But the idea comes as law schools already are struggling with declining enrollment and could be reluctant to cut into their sources of revenue. Third-year law students would 'be better off clerking or practicing in a firm,' President Barack Obama says. The main path to law practice...
Can Government Play Moneyball?
July 7, 2013
Based on our rough calculations, less than $1 out of every $100 of government spending is backed by even the most basic evidence that the money is being spent wisely. As former officials in the administrations of Barack Obama (Peter Orszag) and George W. Bush (John Bridgeland), we were flabbergasted by how blindly the federal government spends. In other types of American enterprise, spending decisions are usually quite sophisticated, and are rapidly becoming more so: baseball’s transformation...
July 7, 2013
Based on our rough calculations, less than $1 out of every $100 of government spending is backed by even the most basic evidence that the money is being spent wisely. As former officials in the administrations of Barack Obama (Peter Orszag) and George W. Bush (John Bridgeland), we were flabbergasted by how blindly the federal government spends. In other types of American enterprise, spending decisions are usually quite sophisticated, and are rapidly becoming more so: baseball’s transformation...
Obama Tries to Curb Patent-Holding Firms
June 4, 2013
The White House on Tuesday announced a set of executive actions by President Barack Obama aimed at reining in certain patent-holding firms, known as "patent trolls" to their detractors, amid concerns that the companies are abusing the patent system and disrupting competition. Mr. Obama's actions, which include measures he wants Congress to consider, are intended to target firms that have forced technology companies, financial institutions and others into costly litigation to protect their products....
June 4, 2013
The White House on Tuesday announced a set of executive actions by President Barack Obama aimed at reining in certain patent-holding firms, known as "patent trolls" to their detractors, amid concerns that the companies are abusing the patent system and disrupting competition. Mr. Obama's actions, which include measures he wants Congress to consider, are intended to target firms that have forced technology companies, financial institutions and others into costly litigation to protect their products....
What negotiation theory can teach us about the fiscal cliff talks
January 1, 2013
In a way, the Obama presidency is the biggest test that the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School has ever faced. The program, founded in 1983, has long been a leading source of research on which negotiation methods — and which mediation and arbitration methods — are most effective, and which backfire. It offers courses to law school students and to the general public and frequently lends its services to companies and governments mired in intractable situations. And perhaps its most...
January 1, 2013
In a way, the Obama presidency is the biggest test that the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School has ever faced. The program, founded in 1983, has long been a leading source of research on which negotiation methods — and which mediation and arbitration methods — are most effective, and which backfire. It offers courses to law school students and to the general public and frequently lends its services to companies and governments mired in intractable situations. And perhaps its most...
