<p>Former White House director of economic policy, Harvard professor and hedge fund guru Todd Buchholz is a leading expert on global economic trends, finance, and market volatility. </p><p>He has predicted trends with astonishing accuracy. Buchholz's editorials in the <i>The Wall Street Journal</i> correctly forecasted the 2001 slowdown in the U.S. and <i>The New York Times</i> often turns to him to decipher terrorist threats and the job market. <i>Businessweek</i> raved about his book, <i>Market Shock: 9 Economic Upheavals that Will Shake Our Financial Future</i>, which warned of the quicksand facing the stock market. </p><p>The author of six books, including <i>Lasting Lessons from the Corner Office: Essential Wisdom from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Entrepreneurs</i> and<i> Rush: Why You Need and Love the Rat Race</i>. Buchholz’s newest book, <i>The Price of Prosperity: Why Rich Nations Fail and How to Renew Them</i>, examines models of success and failure in history, identifies the actions of great leaders, and offers a road map to recovery.</p><p>Todd Buchholz's vision and expertise are essential in a decade marked by intense economic, military, and political insecurity. He elaborates on the "what if's" of the years ahead by drawing on his firsthand knowledge of markets, investing, and politics. </p><p>As a popular business speaker, Buchholz is known for delivering insightful and idea-inspiring presentations at the cutting edge of economics, finance, and business strategy.</p><p>Todd G. Buchholz is a former White House director of economic policy, managing director of the legendary Tiger hedge fund and winner of Harvard’s annual teaching prize in economics. He is the author of "New Ideas from Dead Economists" and most recently "The Price of Prosperity." He regularly appears on PBS, NPR, Fox, and CNBC, and is a co-producer of the Broadway hit Jersey Boys.</p>
Renowned economist and Harvard professor, former White House economic adviser and best-selling author
<ul><li><strong>How to Tackle and Embrace AI</strong></li><li>AI is disrupting the way we do business, even faster than the Internet, the PC, and television did in past decades. Former White House Director of Economic Policy Todd Buchholz, author of <em>Market Shock and New Ideas from Dead CEOs</em>, tackles the startling implications of AI technology — when to harness it, and how to discern hype. As finance, tech, and industrial firms like Morgan Stanley, Apple, and Tesla rush to file patents, Todd explains where the AI revolution is going and how AI will impact inflation, oil prices, and interest rates. His writing on technology and the economy have been praised in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> and <em>Financial Times</em>, and he has been featured on media programs from ABC to the BBC. Organizations like the Pentagon and Goldman Sachs have placed Todd’s works on their recommended reading lists, and Todd has delivered provocative and insightful keynotes before the world’s leading companies, and audiences at Stanford, Harvard, and Cambridge, among others.<ul><li>Discover how to harness AI to lower costs and expand markets </li><li>Pinpoint how AI will change financial markets, disrupting inflation and interest rate expectations</li><li>Reveal how AI will overhaul the job market, creating vast new opportunities, while also requiring retraining</li><li>Decode when AI is used effectively versus when it’s used merely to hype </li></ul></li><li><strong>Prosperity Ahead—Or Not?</strong></li><li>Discover how demographics, technology, and globalization are reshaping the economy and our future. Pinpoint the signs of stock market rallies, and the warning signs of slumps. Identify the political pressures on trade, debt, and interest rates from the U.S. to the E.U. to China and how turmoil in Ukraine is impacting global markets.</li><li><strong>Four Ways to Conquer a Business Crisis</strong></li><li>Todd unlocks the 4 strategies that keep businesses prospering when they hit an unexpected crisis. Ninety percent of the Fortune 500 list from 1955 are gone. What can you learn from the survivors? Tap into Todd's frontline experience as White House director of economic policy and managing director of the Tiger investment fund, to get your business growing now.<ul><li>Find out how companies like Disney, Johnson & Johnson, and Audi bounced back from near-fatal hits to their bottom line</li><li>Discover whether your company should invoke the “Clean Sweep” or “Big Bet” strategy to win back customers</li><li>Learn whether the economy will bounce back with a V-shaped, U-shaped, or W-shaped recovery, and how to adjust</li><li>Position your company to be, not just a survivor but a beneficiary of the economic rebound ahead</li><li>Target the customers and entities that can spend the most—soon</li></ul></li><li><strong>Finding Hope in World Politics</strong><ul><li>Take a world tour to the “hot spots” that are on the cusp of economic and political change.</li><li>Understand how presidents and prime ministers—from Washington to Beijing—make crucial decisions.</li><li>Learn how globalization has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, while sparking protests about Brexit, NAFTA, and NATO.</li></ul></li><li><strong>Behavioral Economics Can Work for You</strong></li><li>Explore how generational differences impact your workplace and your customers. See how psychology shapes financial and customer choices. Learn the three words that most excite your employees, investors, and clients.</li></ul>