Finance: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The schedule featured open classes, lectures, and discussion panels focused how the financial system works and the impact of reforms enacted after the crisis of 2008. Speakers included both faculty and alumni, and lecture topics ranged from activist investors and commercial banking, to Wall Street reform and the Dodd Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
In the video above, Geoffrey R. Woglom, the Richard S. Volpert '56 Professor of Economics, kicks off the Amherst Today program with a talk on the current economic framework. Alumni and Parent Programs partnered with Prof. Woglom to organize the two-day event which brought together professors and alumni leaders in finance to discuss the impact of financial reform in their sectors.
Geoffrey R. Woglom, the Richard S. Volpert '56 Professor of Economics, and Michael Smith '84, Investment Banking Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co, at a panel session.
Kathryn Fulton '83, managing director of government relations at BlackRock, on assest management.
Barry Volpert '81, P'14, co-founder and CEO of Crestview Partners,
discusses the complex and contrarian investment themes of private equity
About the Program
Amherst Today is the direct result of alumni requests for programming that would provide intellectual exploration in the distinct setting of an Amherst classroom. As a result, Amherst Today was launched nearly 10 years ago and program topics have ranged from poetry to presidential politics to the Mead’s art collection and how it is used in the classroom.
The next Amherst Today program, April 17-18, will focus on music at Amherst and coincides with the 150th anniversary of the Amherst College Glee Club.