Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
He has been the business and economics correspondent for the Public Broadcasting Service NewsHour since 1985, with occasional forays into art reporting. He began his career in business journalism as a Nieman Fellow, studying at the Harvard Business School. A graduate of Brandeis University (1966), he was the founding editor of the alternative Boston weekly The Real Paper in 1972.
Solman also taught at the Harvard Business School from 1985-1987.
He joined the Public Broadcasting Service NewsHour, then known as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, in 1985. In 2007, he became a faculty member at Yale University’s International Security Studies, teaching in its "Grand Strategy" course.
He has also lectured for many years at the Yale Young Global Scholars program, the Yale Warrior-Scholar program and was the Richman Distinguished Visiting Professor at Brandeis in 2011. He now also teaches economics at Gateway Community College in New Haven, Connecticut, where he also founded the YaleGateway speaker series.
In 1983, he co-authored, with longtime Public Broadcasting Service executive and writer Thomas Friedman, a better-than-average-seller, Life and Death on the Corporate Battlefield (1983), which appeared in Japanese, German and a pirated Taiwanese edition
In 1994, with sociologist Morrie Schwartz, he helped create—and wrote the introduction to—the book Morrie: In His Own Words,which preceded “Tuesdays with Morrie” but failed to outsell it by several orders of magnitude. His latest book, a collaboration with economist Laurence Kotlikoff and author Philip Moeller, is Get What"s Yours: The Secrets to Maxing Out Your Social Security (Simon and Schuster, 2015)
Every weekday his Public Broadcasting Service NewsHour website, Making Senator$e, posts essays by eminent economists and, occasionally, “far-flung correspondents." He Tweets paulsolman.