Money Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

asked his students. The class quickly reached consensus: Parker’s great, the idea is great, the context is pretty good—despite volatile interest rates—but from an investor’s point of view, the deal stinks. Well, true enough—except that because Parker had deferred rent,... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

04 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Should You Outsource Your Marketing?

benefit considerably by outsourcing, for example, analytical functions to qualified suppliers if those skills are lacking in-house. But some aspects of marketing are less amenable to outsourcing—those that directly drive marketing strategy. While computers are... View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

leverage have to include large institutional investors. I was reminded of this when I read of David Swenson’s recent message to organizations managing Yale’s money under Swenson’s highly successful... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Oct 2019
News

Venturing Away from Venture Capital

raising another big round of venture capital might have fueled even faster growth, using other people’s money to get as big as possible as quickly as possible was never her goal. She is not alone. Even as the amount of venture capital... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

26 Feb 2018
News

Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade

Erik Malmstrom (MBA 2012) is general manager of crop marketing for the Farmers Business Network in California. In this video, he describes how the organization is helping transform the agriculture space using data analytics and sharing... View Details

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?

suggesting, or even trying to prove, that business voluntarism (Corporate Social Responsibility)—spending money on the environment—adds to profitability IN MOST CASES! We decided to look at the literature of business, of economics, and of... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

bonds outstanding. Every day, public markets set prices for CEOs and CFOs, financial institutions, and investors, all seeking to raise and invest money in a way that drives the economy forward. A public exit - whether through an initial... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

even in the womb!” explains Erdoes, who heads global investments for the private bank of J.P. Morgan Chase & Company. Her job puts her in charge of more than $200 billion in assets, managed on behalf of an exclusive group of private... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

18 Feb 2014
News

Stick with Plan A

markets, mobile money is designed to leapfrog plastic by going from cash directly to digital. Because the global economy is increasingly digital, billions of cash-based buyers and sellers are currently excluded from global commerce. These... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Waleed Iskandar (MBA 1993); Telecommunications

21 Nov 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

others? We show that individuals aim to achieve equity but that they narrowly bracket their equity concerns. Rather than equalize overall budgets, individuals equalize the time component or money component of budgets. Individuals believe... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

18 Jul 2019
News

The Pursuit of Impact

richer. Go to work for Bloomberg, and the money is going to go to end polio, and educate kids.’ “And we try to do things where, number one, other people aren't particularly interested in it. And then once we get in, then we try to get... View Details

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

the success of currencies in markets in which they invest? Or, alternatively, will the situation take care of itself as a new equilibrium reoccurs when those managing huge pools of money and gigantic... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Sep 2007
News

Faculty Books

show how Cemex, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, and other firms adroitly managed cross-border differences and how others failed at this challenge. From Higher Aims to Hired Hands by Rakesh Khurana (Princeton University Press) Associate... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2009
News

The Case for Studying Financial History

lot of what is taught by our finance faculty — I’m thinking here of André Perold’s work — is in fact historically focused. His cases on Long-Term Capital Management are the best things written on that subject. But elsewhere, I think the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

where most players are losing money but capturing the imagination of the industry. But it's unclear how you make money on Wi-Fi. For example, the service-provider model would be difficult, he said, because... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

11 May 2020
News

Better Than Cash

Courtesy Ruth Goodwin-Groen Ruth Goodwin-Groen (MBA 2001) has a lot of work to do. “Our job will not be done until all people—old or young, rich or poor, male or female—are able to make and receive payments in a way that works for them,” says Goodwin-Groen, View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

Turning Point: Getting to Giving

was also very practical: After I graduated, my husband and I would be living on one salary while he went to business school. When he graduated, we decided to continue to manage our money as if only one of us... View Details

Keywords: Amalya “Ami” Campbell (MBA 1997); Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

31 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

Summing Up Responses to the question, "Is this the decade of the investor?" offer little hope that the investor will get any relief soon, compared to the rewards realized by managers and customers. Nor do they hold out much... View Details