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Tuesday, 15 June 2010 |
A forum organized by Common Good, with support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, to expand the debate on government paralysis from partisan finger-pointing to the structural flaws of a mature democracy. Government makes laws but almost never goes back to amend or eliminate them. As a result, it is difficult to make sensible choices needed to meet current goals.
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Tuesday, June 15, 2010 10:00am to 5:00pm, followed by a cocktail reception
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Thursday, 27 May 2010 |
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| Ben Wildavsky |
On May 26, CED hosted a Washington, D.C. dinner discussion on how the Internet and other emerging communications methods are changing higher education. Noted education expert and author Ben Wildavsky was the keynote speaker. Wildavsky is a senior fellow in Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He is the author of The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities are Reshaping the World (2010), which examines the globalization of higher education. Wildavsky has reported on education research for almost 20 years and most recently, he was education editor of U.S. News & World Report. The discussion focused on the non-traditional college and university options students now have and how those options are changing higher education. The ability for schools to offer courses to students far from the physical campus (and in other countries) and how that changes both faculty and students was also an important topic.
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 |
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On Thursday, June 25th, CED, in partnership with the Alliance to Save Energy hosted a breakfast discussion entitled Corporate Sustainability, the Environment and Economic Recovery - Investing for the Future. The breakfast forum was hosted in the Capitol Visitors Center and brought together business leaders and the political community for an in-depth discussion on the importance of corporate sustainability during trying economic times.
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Wednesday, 22 October 2008 |
As we prepare for a new President and a new Congress, we believe it is important for the nation's political leaders and its business leaders to work together in a bipartisan manner to tackle the critical infrastructure and investment issues now facing our country. For the last decade, CED Trustees have addressed important public policy issues that are vital to our future. In some instances, such as campaign finance report and our work in early education, we have enjoyed some notable success. In other instances, however, progress has been stymied by political stalemate in Washington, DC, and/or the absence of a strong, coherent, and focused business voice.
The issues facing our country require sustained focus and immediate action. Leadership and Shared Purpose for America's Future summarizes what we call CED's "unfinished agenda." At the top of this list are heath care reform, controlling our budget, trade, and savings deficits, reforming our entitlement programs, and investing in new infrastructure such as early education, sustainable energy, and the environment. We are pleased to have the financial support of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation to underwrite our efforts to enlist more American business leaders to support this reform agenda.
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 |
Bolivia - With Democracy, Without Poverty
Despite political unrest, the International Counterparts Conference took place on 11-13 September 2008, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia. The conference participants debated democracy and poverty reduction. Speakers focused on the fact that most market economies and democratic societies, have not been able to eradicate poverty. In Latin America young democracies social equilibrium is at risk. What can the private sector do? How can countries create social equality without stopping entrepreneurship and economic development?
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Monday, 23 June 2008 |
The Committee for Economic Development (CED) has named two prominent Americans as the organization's new co-chairs. Dr. Joseph Kasputys, chairman, president and chief executive officer, Global Insight, Inc., and Donald K. Peterson, Chairman and CEO (retired), Avaya Inc. were elected by CED's Trustees at the 2008 CED Annual Meetings in New York City in late May. They succeed Former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Roderick M. Hills and former Deputy Assistant to the President for Economic Policy W. Bowman Cutter who served as CED's co-chairs since November of 2005.
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Thursday, 15 November 2007 |
Australia - Climate Change
The International Counterparts Conference was held on November 15-16, 2007 in Sydney, Australia. It brought together leading experts from Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia to analyze the rapidly evolving scientific and economic debate over climate change and explore cutting-edge options for policy response. The conference was hosted by CEDA (Committee for Economic Development Australia), which "promotes Australia's economic development in a sustainable and socially balanced way".
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Friday, 06 May 2005 |
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| CED Trustee Derek C. Bok |
CED, along with Common Good, and the Hudson Institute, hosted a panel discussion on early offers and legal reform. The national coalition, a bi-partisan legal reform initiative, announced that it was filing legal petitions in 12 State Supreme Courts proposing to change the rules governing the contingency fees charged by lawyers in "early offer" settlements in personal injury cases. The proposed change would reduce the fees received by lawyers in these situations, reduce court congestion, and increase the incentive to settle rather than litigate certain liability claims.
Panel members included Derek C. Bok, Professor, Harvard University, JFK School of Government, Michael J. Horowitz, director of Hudson Institute's Project for Civil Justice Reform and Project for International Religious Liberty, Philip K. Howard, Founder and Chair of Common Good, Vice Chairman of Covington & Burling, CED president Charles E. M. Kolb, Jeffrey O'Connell, the Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, and Jeffrey A. Rosen, litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis. |
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