Book Talk -The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake
At Columbia Business School, Glenn Hubbard discussed his book The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake. Hubbard explored how societies can respond to economic disruption by building bridges of opportunity rather than walls of protectionism and fear.
Speaker
Glenn Hubbard is Director, Jerome A. Chazen Institute for Global Business, dean emeritus, and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School. From 2001 until 2003, he was chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. In the corporate sector, he is on the boards of ADP, BlackRock Fixed Income Funds, and MetLife (where he is chair). Hubbard is co-chair of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation; he is a past chair of the Economic Club of New York and a past co-chair of the Study Group on Corporate Boards. Hubbard received his BA and BS degrees summa cum laude from the University of Central Florida and also holds AM and PhD degrees in economics from Harvard University. In addition to writing more than 100 scholarly articles in economics and finance, Glenn is the author of three popular textbooks. His commentaries appear in Businessweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Financial Times, The Washington Post, and Nikkei as well as on television and radio.