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- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
divest a recent acquisition or buy other assets to build this business area would check the same column. The law partner who is thinking about retirement from a lucrative law practice and who really wants to go into teaching and shape... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
because of my crutches. I was saved a few times by friends, family, and sometimes by sheer luck. Some incidents may have scarred me for good. Now, after several years back in my home country, those adventures bring back some of the most... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
retired Dean of the Harvard Business School. John Hector McArthur was born in 1934 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up somewhere between the right side of the tracks and the wrong side of the tracks in a suburb called Burnaby,... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation for individuals. Mutual funds also represent an... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
Graduate and a retired Army Experimental Test Pilot, so I grew up on military bases moving from one side of the US to the other. I loved the idea of helping others and doing something bigger than I could imagine in service to my country.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
Founder, Co-CIO, and Chairman, Bridgewater Associates I always had little jobs. I had a paper route. I would shovel driveways. And then I started caddying. This was the 1960s, when everyone was talking about the stock market, and the market was hot. I got $6 for every... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
company, confirmed that it had begun selling A2 infant formula in China, and people speculated that it would start selling A2 products in Australia and New Zealand later in the year. a2MC's retiring CEO Geoffrey Babidge and newly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
1981. It was then, after losing some important data, that he wrote the program - later dubbed "UnErase" - to retrieve lost files. "I wrote a program that would, metaphorically speaking, let you rummage through the wastebasket and get back the stuff you'd thrown away,"... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
the potential to write a new chapter, to set an example. But he was also a realist. On that trip to Caen, it became clear that saving the company and the workers’ jobs would require a new factory and new equipment—in short, way more money... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
individuals. Financial inclusion could potentially help these individuals by increasing financial literacy, building credit records, improving savings rates, providing access to loans and other financial products, and, in general, by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
these conventions, pension assets and liabilities are not included in balance sheet calculations. The modern risk management tools of derivatives technologies can improve both corporate decision making and external analysis of corporations. The Future of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
information. We owe it to those who passed away in the disaster to upgrade our systems to help save lives in any future calamity." —GE AGRICULTURE John Whiteside Grass Farmer, Wolf Creek Farm For years, the résumé of John Whiteside (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
techniques presented in them. Fifty-Five, Unemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Retirement Life by Elizabeth White (MBA 1988) (EDWhite) You’re in your fifties and sixties and haven’t saved... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
long before she had exhausted her retirement savings. “I never thought I’d be on the needing end,” says Rhenisch. “I was living a good, solid, confident middle-class life until I got sick. Then the foundation of everything I had built... View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants By: Shu, Pian Abstract—Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) possess significantly more... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
increased by 9.4% following the first managerial change. Our results highlight the important complementarities between incentives and management practices, especially in developing countries. A back-of-the-envelope calculation that suggests India could View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
space startups, one giant leap for space exploration. Video Embed Blue Origin’s historic November launch. Arianne Cornell is visible at ~1:08, midscreen with binoculars in hand. This promise of cost savings and efficiency has long been... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Disaster Relief Fund. In an e-mail to classmates, they explained, "These men and women moved selflessly into the buildings, and there is no eloquence that properly captures the balance of the lives they saved and the sadness of their own... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
older generation, the Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, struggled to define the next phase of their lives. For many, this meant dealing with the large—sometimes-crippling—losses to their retirement View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
income remained relatively stable, about 3 to 1. Over the last 20 years, however, the financial markets that financed the housing system in the United States changed remarkably. Local markets once dominated by tightly regulated savings... View Details