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01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

venture capitalists, private equity investors, and hedge fund managers. Eventually they raised $30 million from three private family investors. A CAR SERVICE WITH WINGS: Weighing in at under 10,000 pounds,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

and loan crisis, followed by a rash of bank failures in the early 1990s that forced the government to recapitalize the FDIC’s Bank Insurance Fund. Long Term Capital Management, a largely unregulated hedge fund, came perilously close to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Jun 2010
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Michael Depatie

gradually give up operating excellence, because it gets in the way of growth. How has the economic downturn affected Kimpton’s growth strategy? It’s definitely a big opportunity. Over the last couple of years we raised two funds with a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Accommodation; Hospitality

02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race

are parked at all the Walmarts in the world, so hedge funds can [then] long or short the stock without waiting for the quarterly reports. It’s another way to monetize those images.” Balance sheets can take... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters

returning to the familiar. Rejected by every Formula One team he pursued, Varma chose the “familiar” option after HBS and initially returned to work in London with Ziff Brothers Investments before joining one of Europe’s leading hedge... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Mar 2025
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Heartland

fund wants to hear, but I believe there are other ways of measuring ROI. We’re currently living beyond our planet’s boundaries by extracting a lot of cash out of our natural ecosystems.” Climate risk is financial risk, she adds, which is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

authors map these trends and profile the battle between low-cost index and exchange-traded funds, on the one hand, and the higher-fee hedge funds and private equity, on the other. “I have no rituals for... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

those diseases. “These people have no voice in the marketplace,” Gates said. As a result, ten times as much funding is devoted to research on the prevention of male baldness as malaria, a disease that kills more than 1 million people each... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

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