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  • 31 Jul 2023
  • News

Striving for Imperfection

your own capabilities, have you build the assets of your enterprise, and then actually step into that risk. Another way of thinking about it would be to say that strategy is dynamic problem solving, not grand chess strategy. JF: Okay so... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Up on the Corner

operations in several cities, leading to more than $950,000 in financing. “Rarely do financial institutions in the US invest in Black women at the $1 million level, especially when the underlying assets don’t hold much value,” says... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate
  • 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

lower emissions) is becoming the focus of operators. Consumers are shifting their product preferences and investors are incorporating these in their asset allocations and specific investment decisions. There will be large changes in the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2008
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Seth Klarman

a mountain of cash — 40 to 50 percent of Baupost’s $14 billion–plus in assets — for several years, the firm’s recent investments have cut its cash stash in half. Distress selling, it seems, breeds the kind of bargains Klarman lives for.... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2007
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Mead Treadwell

installations and continuing today as America’s primary missile-defense site. Which of these issues worries you most? That’s a tough question. As someone who was trained at HBS and has made my living trying to take assets that most people... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Transportation
  • 14 Nov 2024
  • News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

risk and if folks are then forced to bear the full cost of their decisions, that will help us build in the right places, right? So not just build in a safe way but decide where to build. And you know, the industry for a few years now,... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

The Devil You Don’t Know

President Hoover famously said in October, 1930, “the fundamental assets of the nation have been unimpaired." How was it possible that the economy was breaking down when the fundamental assets of the nation,... View Details
  • 13 May 2025
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If I Knew Then

learning. And the best thing that students will remember years after is discussions with my classmates in a safe environment when I can test myself and learn how to communicate, and take people with me, and see their points. And in the... View Details
Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Read All About It!

twenty-first century, the distribution of both wealth and income became increasingly unequal. The top 5 percent of the income distribution saw their fortunes rise as both their livelihoods and assets grew. At the same time, real wages for... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

stake in the community — a safe place to settle down and raise a family. But in the U.S., particularly in the first half of this decade, the balance shifted pretty radically from viewing a home as a place to live in to seeing it, instead,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate
  • 26 Nov 2018
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New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change

scientists anticipated even a few years ago. “For investors, a changing climate offers many opportunities in technologies to mitigate warming, such as batteries, wind, solar, electric vehicles, and plant-based proteins,” she says. “Adaptation technologies for things... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; clubs; alumni clubs
  • 01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq

freer, but are less safe and worse off than before. Only a professional army and police force can deliver security. To calm things and establish a legitimate government, Iraq needs early free elections. This may not give Westerners the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government
  • 01 Oct 2001
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Making a World of Difference

issues like gender, race, and religion, we are really talking about how we get along with others and how we create a world that is safe for difference." Slifka is working hard to create such a world. The theme of coexistence emerges as a... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

assets are practicing sustainable development. According to this line of thinking, harvesting trees and using the money generated to build schools would be an example of sustainable development. But others insist that development is... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb
  • 04 Aug 2020
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How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

alumni, the pledge asks business leaders to promise that they will pursue anti-racist initiatives in the areas of policing reform; safe ballot access and civic participation; and economic inclusion. Among the alumni authors of the pledge... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture

companies challenged the status quo, and the old, "safe" jobs turned out to be not very safe at all, as large companies entered extended periods of malaise and restructuring. Ed O'Lear: It's important to note why money managers decided to... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

panel last October when it enacted the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to rescue faltering financial institutions. Law-makers instructed the panel to monitor TARP expenditures and recommend regulatory reforms. Led by... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • 01 Sep 2010
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Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

Investment Counsel, which became the largest privately owned, independent asset management firm in southern Africa. In 1988, he left Cape Town to start an international investment firm, launching Orbis Investment Management with his son,... View Details
Keywords: awards; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Space Research and Technology; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

provides practical advice on creating successful decision-making governance to reduce errors and correctly assigning responsibilities and incentives; dealing thoughtfully and effectively with governance challenges; building the right policy portfolio, specifying... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

it’s clear who does what and why. And after that, stay in your lane. Due to COVID-19 lockdowns there were no domestic flights, and you had to have special permits to travel by road. We had to think through the logistics of how to operate companies around Nigeria in a... View Details
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