In the 21st century, no financier has faced as much public scrutiny as Mike Milken, yet to many, he remains a mystery—until now. In 1986, the investigation into Milken, the innovative financier and head of Drexel Burnham Lambert’s High Yield and Convertible Securities Department, shocked the world. Yet the media told Milken’s story with no

This interactive workshop will explore the impact that our cumulative experiences of grief have on our personal and professional lives. Using the framework of the National Consensus Project Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, we’ll explore how our cultural backgrounds and past losses influence our understanding and expression of grief. Although caring for those who are

Both the transatlantic slave trade and the Holocaust have left indelible imprints on societies, public landscapes, and the collective and public memory of the affected regions. In Europe, towns and cities, some of which were predominantly Jewish, were emptied of the population that had lived there for centuries, after their Jewish residents had been murdered.

George Athanassakos, Ph.D., founder and managing director of The Ben Graham Centre for Value Investing and the Ben Graham Chair in Value Investing at the Ivey Business School, will argue that the hefty average nominal and real stock returns experienced over the last 30 years are not going to be repeated in the next 30

Join us for a conversation with Christopher Kellerman, S.J., about his thought-provoking work. In All Oppression Shall Cease, he provides a rigorously researched, era-by-era history of the Catholic Church's teachings and actions related to slavery. By telling stories of enslaved Catholics and Catholic slaveholders, analyzing arguments of theologians who either defended or condemned slaveholding, and

Joe Calandro will profile the United States credit cycle and the challenges it poses, and he will share his perspective on where we seem to be in the cycle today. He will show the prior credit cycle wave of progressively lower inflation and interest rates began in 1982—following a historic inflationary trend—and ended in the

Much attention is given to returning veterans with war-induced syndromes, such as PTSD. An estimated 10% to 20% of returning soldiers have PTSD. The experiences of the other 80% to 90% are not as well understood, including whether or not their experiences are clinically significant or indicative of psychosocial problems. There is a growing body

In the beginning, there was the loan, and the loan carried interest. For at least five millennia, people have been borrowing and lending at interest. The practice wasn’t always popular: In the ancient world, usury was generally viewed as exploitative, a potential path to debt bondage and slavery. Yet as capitalism became established from the

Healthcare social workers engage in discipline-specific, skilled interventions informed by training, best practices, and attunement to social justice. Documenting assessments and interventions clearly communicates the value of the social work perspective, skills, and contributions and influences outcomes while also contributing to the learning of those who read our work. This class will review the literature

The concept of moral distress refers to a clinical situation in which the patient is perceived to be “suffering” and the clinician knows what they feel to be the best course of action, but that course conflicts with what is best for the organization, other providers, other patients, the family, or society as a whole.