by Susan Wharton Gates | Mar 16, 2017 | Purple problem solving
I teach graduate students of business and public administration about ethics, about values and norms, and yes, sometimes we traverse into politics by way of headline news. We talk Friedman and we talk Rawls. We talk Hillary and Trump. We talk freedom and fairness. As...
by Susan Wharton Gates | Feb 3, 2017 | Uncategorized
What’s the right thing to do? Is it something you either know in your gut (or not), or is there a process to reason your way through moral ambiguous situations? The good news is that both your “gut” and your reason have important roles to play to help you choose the...
by Susan Wharton Gates | Jan 15, 2017 | Blog Post, Policy Wonk
In prepared remarks at the annual convention of the Mortgage Bankers Association, Mel Watt, Federal Housing Finance Agency director, said that the GSEs under his charge would again be permitted to guarantee mortgages with as little as 3 percent down. Cue the cheers...
by Susan Wharton Gates | Jan 15, 2017 | Blog Post
It was the late sixties. I was under 10, my father heading toward 50. He was, by all present accounts, a square. Literally. Boyscout, mathematician, grammarian, disciplinarian, frugal. With him, just about everything had defined corners, 90 degree angles and...
by Susan Wharton Gates | Jan 15, 2017 | Blog Post, Small biz wiz
Each week I go to my credit union to deposit the contents of a Ziploc bag – somewhere in the hundreds of dollars, generally. It’s the weekly “take” from my small (ok, very small) creative business. I know there are more efficient ways to do this, but getting the...
