Session 20: Googlenomics
Co-author of a best-selling book on business strategy, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy, Hal R. Varian will deliver the keynote address. He holds two professorships at the University of California, Berkeley: one with the School of Information Management and Systems, the Haas School of Business, and the other with the Department of Economics. He also writes a monthly column for The New York Times.
Sponsor: FedEx Corporation
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Gene Huang
FedEx Corporation
Gene Huang is Chief Economist for FedEx and a Managing Director of the company’s Economic and Industry Analysis Group. He is responsible for forecasting global economic and financial conditions. Gene tracks and monitors all industries served by FedEx.
Gene is a member of the Blue Chip Consensus Panel, which provides the economic consensus used by policy makers as well as the business community, the Wall Street Journal Economic Panel and BusinessWeek Magazine’s Business Outlook Panel. In 2002, Gene was profiled in BusinessWeek as its“Most Accurate Forecaster”. He credits his forecasting success to the “front row seat” that FedEx provides him in global Supply Chain Management. Gene is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE).
Gene began his corporate career in 1987 with a Wall Street money management firm. Since then he has worked for some of the largest industrial corporations and most prestigious research institutions in the U.S. and Japan, including Eaton Corporation, General Motors Corporation, ICSEAD in Japan, and Wharton School’s Economic Research Unit.
Gene received his M.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a law degree from Fudan University in Shanghai.
He is the author of two books in business economics and many articles published in U.S., Japanese, and European economic and policy journals. Gene is frequently interviewed by leading news journals in the U.S. and has made appearances on Bloomberg TV as an economic commentator. He has also occasionally served in an advisory capacity to U.S. Federal Government agencies and international organizations.
Hal Varian
Google
Hal R. Varian is the Chief Economist at Google. He started in May 2002 as a consultant and has been involved in many aspects of the company, including auction design, econometric, finance, corporate strategy and public policy.
He also holds academic appointments at the University of California, Berkeley in three departments: business, economics, and information management.
He received his SB degree from MIT in 1969 and his MA in mathematics and Ph.D. in economics from UC Berkeley in 1973. He has also taught at MIT, Stanford, Oxford, Michigan and other universities around the world.
Dr. Varian is a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the Econometric Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was Co-Editor of the American Economic Review from 1987-1990 and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Oulu, Finland and the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Professor Varian has published numerous papers in economic theory, industrial organization, financial economics, econometrics and information economics. He is the author of two major economics textbooks which have been translated into 22 languages. He is the co-author of a bestselling book on business strategy, Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy and wrote a monthly column for the New York Times from 2000 to 2007.
