Academic

Traveling and Swine Flu

By Gordon Smith, Christine, Hurt, Vic Fleischer, Fred Tung, Lisa Fairfax, David Zaring

I am slated to attend the Searle Research Roundtable on Corporate Governance at Northwestern University Law School tomorrow. Although it is still young, the Searle Center has been the most important addition to scholarly debate on business issues in my academic lifetime. They produce excellent programs, and I am grateful to be included.

But I am getting a tad bit concerned when I see the following headline: "Swine Flu Moves Toward Pandemic Level" (WSJ). Air travel is rivaled only by kindergarten as a germ factory, and I am wondering whether a mask might be in order. Maybe we could even make the mask a fashion accessory ...

Full post as published by Conglomerate on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).