MAGNOLIA— Todd Buchholz will be the guest speaker for the annual Murphy Lecture, scheduled for 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 14, in Southern Arkansas University’s Harton Theatre. The topic of his lecture will be “Chaos: In the Economy and in Washington.”
A former director of economic policy at the White House, a managing director of the $15 billion Tiger hedge fund and an award-winning economics teacher at Harvard University, Buchholz targets his entertaining remarks to the cutting edge of economics, finance and business strategy. He has advised President George H. W. Bush and is a frequent commentator on ABC News, PBS and CBS. He recently hosted his own special on CNBC. He is co-founder and director of Two Oceans Management, LLC and was a fellow at Cambridge University in 2009.
Buchholz has authored numerous books that have been translated into a dozen languages and are used in universities nation-wide. He is a contributing editor at Worth magazine where he writes the “Global Markets” column. He has also penned articles for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Readers’ Digest. He won the Allyn Young Teaching Prize at Harvard and holds advanced degrees in economics and law from Cambridge and Harvard.
The Murphy Lecture is sponsored by Murphy Oil Corporation of El Dorado and the SAU College of Business. The event is free, and the public is encouraged to attend.
For more information, contact the College of Business at (870) 235-4300.