September 28, 2010

Fostering Economic Opportunity: The Case of the Massachusetts Film Industry

Tuesday, September 28 (Frost Lounge, Ell Hall)
12-1:30pm

Daniel O’Connell
President, MA Competitive Partnership
Former Secretary, Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development

Peter D. Enrich
Professor of Law, Northeastern University Law School

Moderator:
Barry Bluestone
Russell B. and Andree B. Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy
Dean, School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs, Northeastern University

Video Recording of the Seminar

#1: Introduction by Nonnie Burnes, Senior University Fellow, Northeastern University
Former Commissioner of Insurance, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

#2: Bluestone

#3: O’Connell

#4: Enrich

#5: Q&A

Speaker Bios:

Daniel O’Connell is the President and CEO of the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership, a public policy group made up of Chief Executive Officers of the largest private employers in Massachusetts. He served as Secretary of the Executive Office of Housing and Economic Development for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2009.

Peter D. Enrich is a Professor of Law at Northeastern University’s Law School.  Professor Enrich was previously general counsel to the Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance. He frequently serves as an advisor to state and local governments and to advocacy groups interested in state and local fiscal policy. Professor Enrich, working together with consumer activist, Ralph Nader, is pursuing litigation to challenge the constitutionality of state tax giveaways used tos compete for business.

Barry Bluestone is the Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy, the founding Director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, and the founding Dean of the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. At the Dukakis Center, Professor Bluestone has led research projects on housing, local economic development, state and local public finance, and the manufacturing sector in Massachusetts. At the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, he has co-chaired the Open Classroom series, a graduate seminar on critical social issues open free to the public each semester. He has also been part of the school team developing a new Masters Program in Urban and Regional Policy.