Sebastian Mallaby directs the Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a columnist and former editorial board member at the Washington Post. Before that, he served as the Washington, DC, and Tokyo bureau chief
for the Economist.
As Wall Street has turned upside down, calls for more transparency, not surprisingly, have become increasingly intense. Markets thrive on information, the argument goes, and more information is better, right? Well, up to a point. When it comes to hedge funds and proprietary trading desks, transparency is not always a good thing. In fact, it can be dangerous.
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The Stanford Social Innovation Review is written for and by social change leaders in the nonprofit, business, and government sectors. Sample articles of particular interest to readers of What Matters are available below.
by Ben Hecht. Living Cities is working with five US municipalities to develop an ecosystem for solving urban problems.
by Clayton M. Christensen, Shuman Talukdar, Richard Alton, and Michael B. Horn. Unless clean tech follows well-established rules of innovation and commercialization, the industry’s promise to provide sustainable sources of energy will fail.