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- 01 Apr 1996
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principles to guide it. This is the challenge. Managers must rise to it, for they are the force at the center of the storm." Managerial Decision Analysis Series four new titles by David E. Bell and Arthur Schleifer, Jr. (Course Technology, Inc.) Decision-makers View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
out of those excesses, and that means several years of negative returns. All of my clients have had to readjust their assumptions regarding risks and returns. Your clients are extremely wealthy. Do they take... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
that person didn’t exist. So Josh launched Presidio Advisors, a financial planning firm dedicated to helping millennials gain clarity and confidence around their equity compensation. For those looking to take a more strategic approach to... View Details
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
numbers will work out. The second is to work a deal with employees for a lump-sum payment covering the value of their pension, walking away without further obligations. That number can be large, however, and few companies can afford to pay out all that money at once.... View Details
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Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo
During her last year of university, Margarita interned at Citibank del Peru's Quality and Innovation area to streamline asset-based finance projects and "reduce workloads." After graduation, Margarita transferred to Credit Risk... View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- News
Retraining for a Post-COVID Workforce
until they reach a cap of $22,500. The hope is that a large share of participants become high enough earners to compensate for those who don’t have to pay—and to generate a modest return for investors.” “This is hopefully a tool to help people View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Applying Business Principles to Military Problems
required; to be able to help people prioritize. I’m not an operator; I’m a business person, but [my job is] getting the Navy Seal leadership to decide what’s important—what they can trade off—and identifying risk and helping them manage... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Trust Me
trust. “The aspect of a contract that hurts the building of trust is its binding nature. When I know that you are forced to cooperate, it takes away all of the risk. If I leave some element of risk in, by... View Details
- 04 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives
right away. Join a protest or take virtual action. If you’ve never participated in a protest before, now is the time to do it! You can also take virtual action by signing petitions, engaging in social media... View Details
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
competition. Comparison Quote is their clever service design that takes advantage of their data analysis superiority. They can get at the true 'riskiness' of a customer in a more refined way than anyone else can, so they know the true... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
fragile human lives, with untapped potential, so you need to push the envelope as hard as possible to obtain the best benefit for the participant,” Callahan adds. “At the same time, you have to take very responsible View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Antonio Falato of the Federal Reserve Board, Scharfstein says many traditional banks responded by taking outsized credit risk in an effort to boost short-run performance. “The complex interplay of different... View Details
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
natural experiment where you take a population of people—namely, the inventors in Michigan before the law changed—and then you subject them to this shift in enforcement," Fleming explains. “Policy makers in these states are really... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
investment research in the right order, starting with least-biased sources. He observes that “the order in which I read the materials matters greatly since whatever I take in first will affect me unduly.” But Spier’s biggest life’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
2016), cofounder of Chicago-based Lotic Labs, a data platform for more efficient water markets. “Those costs have to be borne by investors who have to take certain kinds of risks and think about View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
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Closings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
substantive close to the class, fearing that without some pulling-together of the class discussion, students may leave feeling confused, frustrated and perhaps demotivated. These competing views suggest that case instructors should take... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies
Finance," focused on five subjects: corporate capital raising, corporate restructuring, extracting information from security prices, risk management, and security design. The fifteen papers presented at the conference, chosen by a... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Mar 2016
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How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network
to everyone who might use them. Who will take the risks and create viable businesses? This talk will outline how firms in various markets addressed the conundrums noted above during the commercialization of... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Blog Post
6 Discoveries I Made About HBS
wasted a lot of time feeling like I was behind. 2. Second year is a great time to take some risks Make EC year work for you, and take the risks... View Details
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
volatility. This paper presents evidence that movements in both the short-term nominal interest rate and the yield spread are positively related to changes in subsequent realized bond risk and bond return volatility. The yield spread... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace