Book Talk

With Georg Rillinger, Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management, MIT Sloan School of Management The Western U.S. energy crisis was one of the great financial disasters of […]

With Jesse M. Keenan, Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Planning, and Director, Center on Climate Change and Urbanism, Tulane University Climate change is already influencing how and […]

On April 9, 2026, MIT political scientist Kathy Thelen visited BESI to discuss the origins and implications of the new cloud business model powering the AI boom and how it differs from the traditional platform out of which it grew.

In this talk, Harvard political scientist Stephanie Ternullo explores the political tensions of suburbs that support liberal policies at the national level but sustain exclusionary housing and education policies at the local level.

With Stephanie Ternullo, Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University In her upcoming book, Suburban Blues, political scientist Stephanie Ternullo explores the tensions within suburban communities that increasingly support liberal policies […]

Join us as historian Quinn Slobodian and journalist Ben Tarnoff discuss their new book, “The Global History of Elon Musk.” Slobodian and Tarnoff present Musk as an avatar of something called “Muskism”: a playbook and worldview for the post-liberal age.

Please join us for this talk with economic geographer Andrea Pollio. Additional details to come.

Please join us for a talk with sociologist of finance and capitalism Fabian Muniesa. Additional details to come.