Marketplace Morning Report for Thursday, April 9, 2015
Airing on Thursday, April 9, 2015: Greece's government is caught between its promises to ease austerity there and the bills is owes international lenders. But one milestone was just reached. We talk to Theo Leggett, business reporter from our partner broadcaster the BBC, about the large sum of money that's due today. Next, Harvard Business School has launched a new program to deal with a persistent imbalance; just 41 percent of its MBA students are women. Its outreach goes like this. For a fee of $500, women can take a peek at the business school by trying it out for a weekend. Finally, you typically measure the economy by counting when dollars change hands. That means dollars spent on bad things—like fixing a car after a crash—count the same as good things. We look at a key alternate measure called the Social Progress Index, which also looks at health, education, safety, access to information, personal freedom and other measures across the globe.
Airing on Thursday, April 9, 2015: Greece’s government is caught between its promises to ease austerity there and the bills is owes international lenders. But one milestone was just reached. We talk to Theo Leggett, business reporter from our partner broadcaster the BBC, about the large sum of money that’s due today. Next, Harvard Business School has launched a new program to deal with a persistent imbalance; just 41 percent of its MBA students are women. Its outreach goes like this. For a fee of $500, women can take a peek at the business school by trying it out for a weekend. Finally, you typically measure the economy by counting when dollars change hands. That means dollars spent on bad things—like fixing a car after a crash—count the same as good things. We look at a key alternate measure called the Social Progress Index, which also looks at health, education, safety, access to information, personal freedom and other measures across the globe.
