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Late-night hosts and pundits were quick to poke fun at the Texas power system when scenes of winter storm devastation there began rolling in. But the challenges facing Texas are not unique to Texas. Similar organizations control electricity in much of the country, and utilities everywhere face damage from severe storms. The struggles facing Texas [...]
Thursday, April 8, 2021 9:00am - 12:00pm Eastern Daylight Time Apply Now! Big Tech companies have created substantial changes in how people communicate, gain information, engage in public discourse, create businesses, etc. Almost every facet of life. How should governments respond? What from the past should be protected and what needs to change for citizens [...]
Wednesday, April 7, 2021 9:00am - 12:00pm Eastern Daylight Time Apply Now! This zoom-based workshop will focus on derivation of the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) for regulated utilities. We will discuss the various considerations for deriving WACC including priorities and practices. We will also analyze the various models used in the estimation of [...]
Content moderation on social media has been a hot-button issue ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Suffering attacks from Democrats and Republicans alike, Facebook has sought to distance itself from the issue by deferring some content-moderation decisions to an independent oversight board and embracing government involvement in content moderation. Now, Twitter is taking this uncoupling [...]
Launching a new administration involves thousands of decisions about appointments, budgets, executive orders, foreign leader contacts, legislative agendas, and the like. Planning begins long before the November election. But I suspect that President Joe Biden and his team are engrossed in at least one conversation no one had planned: What should we do about Twitter? [...]