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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
areas of capital markets, financial services, and corporate finance. "New financial product and market designs, improved computer and telecommunications technology, and advances in finance theory during the past quarter century have led... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
democratic regimes and have adopted market-based stabilization programs, opening up their economies to foreign trade. And just as in the United States, another strong and exciting phenomenon has been the impact of the new economy... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
wasn't just a school - it was a business, where one could apply business concepts such as fiscal management and marketing strategies. However, he also had to remember that a nonprofit was a very different kind of operation from most... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
Street, raising the specter of a credit market collapse that would cripple the economy. “It is an anxious time. It is probably even a dangerous time. It is a historic time. And it is a time that we’re going to be teaching about in our... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
business community stand on all this? Generally, it backs reforms, believing that open markets require political openness. The business community is influential but the government is sufficiently repressive to hurt anyone who pushes it... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
at how much of that has gone to the new middle class in Asia, India, and China, and not to the working middle class in the already developed world—that’s where you see the revolt. Given the importance of stability to the project of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
income, but the amount the University allows us to spend — ranges from 4 percent to 5 percent of the endowment's market value. This policy may seem conservative, but it ensures that the endowment is protected against inflation and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
extreme volatility as Bitcoin, and does volatility impede transactional utility? In other words, can Bitcoin really function as a “currency”? — Jay Precourt (MBA 1962) Bitcoin has been volatile, though it has had periods of stability (in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
systemically dangerous part of the system, the commercial banks, and we exercised a much lighter touch elsewhere, leaving the rest of the financial system to innovate, be dynamic, and do everything that markets do so well.” This targeted... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
speed limits (rather than by prohibiting cars or leaving the risk entirely to the market to resolve), we need to do much the same in managing the risk posed by the largest financial institutions. Above all, we must limit their leverage,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
ability to analyze and identify the organizations that had the highest impact potential in democracy reform. So last year we embarked on an intensive effort to build a Democracy Market Map. We used comprehensive data from the IRS, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Executives Without Borders is about. We make sustainable, knowledge-based investments that help to stabilize communities and, over time, make the world a better place. How do you choose which NGOs to help? We get involved with projects... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
venture and the founding team, putting that early split into disarray and imperiling the team. Splitting equity early can be valuable in maintaining team stability when a venture is just launching, but devising a static split doesn’t... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
goal: to help big-brand marketing leaders with everything from dealing with vendors to establishing a social brand identity to managing crucial conversations at every level of the organization. The New Global View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
adjourns at 11:25 p.m., the auditorium is nearly empty. This stage is a far cry from the one Cognetti inhabited at Treasury, serving as senior advisor to Under Secretary for International Affairs Lael Brainard. From 2009 to 2012, Cognetti was part of a team working to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
some of the big inflection points and in particular, some of the events that did so much to define the story of American business: the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, the crash of the stock market in 1929, the rise of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
fiercely competitive market for outdoor wear and gear. GoLite’s mission sounds simple and logical enough — give serious trail runners, alpine athletes, fast-packers (backpackers who speed along trails), and even once-discouraged hikers... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
Baker: With a strong belief in change within the system, working to reduce corruption so that free markets will function better, to the benefit of rich and poor nations alike. Photos by Katherine Lambert Corruption. Said slowly, even the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Alumni Books The Saudi Kingdom by Ali Al Shihabi (MBA 1985) (Markus Wiener Publishers) Al Shihabi presents an analysis of Saudi Arabia’s political stability in light of mounting domestic and international challenges facing the country... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
this activity: Egypt's population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance