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- 20 Jan 2020
- News
Larry Fink Isn’t Going to Read Your Sustainability Report
- 24 Jun 2021
- News
COVID-19 Has Stymied Governments’ Efforts to Collect Data
- 15 May 2009
- News
Diminished Returns
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Three Key Considerations for TSR Awards
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
Index) was born. The project, developed by Diamond and two cofounders, began in 1995 as a crowd-sourced effort to index the approximately 2 million Polish Jewish microfilm records in the Mormon church’s collection. In 1997, as executive... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
experience to Vanguard in 1982, joining the Valley Forge, Pennsylvania–based pioneer of index funds when it was only seven years old. By 1989, the year he was named president, the company was regarded as an emerging industry leader in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 18 May 2023
- News
India's New Money Managers
When Priti Rathi Gupta (OPM 49, 2017) was 16 years old, her father handed her his investment portfolio and asked her what she could make of it. She was befuddled. "He realized that, although I had schooling in what we call commerce, I didn't really know much about... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
2016 The Atlantic awarded Magazine of the Year Chairman, Atlantic Media David Bradley sits at an Arlington, Virginia, diner, his papers spread out in front of him. Dapper and courteous, he evokes a different era as he takes notes on index... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
inspired the PBS documentary Built to Last?. RAF initiatives include the Buyer’s Guide to Resilient Homes, Building Resilience Index with World Bank/IFC, and Resilience Youth Network. Some predict that a “Great Repricing” looms ahead for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Porter Ranks Competitiveness
The United States and Germany remain at the top of the latest global Business Competitiveness Index produced by University Professor Michael Porter and two colleagues at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. China slipped nine... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Case Study: Bionic Banking
approach for the masses. Investment management startup Alpha Architect, cofounded by COO Patrick Cleary (MBA 2010), is considering the launch of an affordable, active robo-advisor that would seek to outperform a passive, globally diversified market View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Euro Vision
challenge was amplified—cofounding Index Ventures in 1996. "If we were going to compete with the best portfolios that were built in Silicon Valley," says Rimer, "we'd have to hunt far and wide across Europe." It's become a popular bet: VC... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Students Negotiate a Victory
airline, curtailed the union's right to strike, and indexed pay scales to profitability. “We concentrated on our common interests; the measure of our success was that both sides felt they got a great deal,” said Chung. View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
and modernizing its capital markets. Prospects are intriguing: Last year, of Africa’s twenty stock markets, the indexes of Kenya and Uganda performed in the top ten globally, with Ghana’s stock market finishing number one in the world... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Connecting Past and Present
to warn other members of the family,” said Diamond, whose search led him to Poland—and then to the creation of Jewish Records Indexing–Poland. Since founding JRI-Poland, in 1996, the not-for-profit has indexed more than 5 million birth,... View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
million tax advantage. If the goal of a lower rate for capital gains was to compensate for inflation, wouldn’t it be easier simply to index the gain for inflation? LaMagna How about the argument that my type of income is better for the... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
acquisitions at Morgan Stanley, and then to private equity, asset allocation, and now, to leading operations. Ma recently was appointed chief operating officer (COO) of Index Ventures, a 25-year-old international venture capital firm. “We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
indexes between 1980 and 2002, according to industry research. Firms with median returns lagged indexes by several percentage points, and those in the bottom quarter actually lost money. While demand for top... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Rethinking the Fashion Beat
wanted to. Still, it wasn’t until investors came calling that Amed realized that London-based BoF could be a business. In 2013, he took on backers that included industry powerhouses LVMH and Index Ventures, threw in some of his own money,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
competitors often lead to overcompensation and lull executives into a false sense of superiority. Pay-for-performance systems that ignore rigorously applied subjective judgments often promote gaming behavior and otherwise provide insufficient direction to executives.... View Details