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  • 01 Jan 2003
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  • 25 Jul 2023
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Why Leaders with Big Egos Worry Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott

healthcare and lithium businesses. “That’s the great thing about the Wesfarmers model,” Scott tells the paper. “We have the capacity to allocate capital and adjust the portfolio so that our group remains... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News

agnostic about nonprofit versus for-profit because, ultimately, community ownership and governance have different dynamics, and this is possible in all different flavors. Within this public benefit corporation version, there are shares that are View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

lower emissions) is becoming the focus of operators. Consumers are shifting their product preferences and investors are incorporating these in their asset allocations and specific investment decisions. There will be large changes in the... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2008
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America the Difficult

portfolio investor that predominantly makes asset allocation decisions. For U.S. regulators, these patterns do not recommend increasing barriers to foreign investment. Indeed, America should be rolling out... View Details
Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; foreign investors; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2015
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Case Study: Bionic Banking

hope of digging into Wall Street’s high profit margins. Current robo-advisors focus on passive “buy-and-hold” strategies, selecting a handful of low-cost exchange traded funds (ETFs), investing the funds according to a standard portfolio... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2010
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Chaotic Funding Derails Research

allocates money to researchers whose proposals are reviewed by a panel of scientists knowledgeable in the field. A typical grant proposal is 25 single-spaced pages and takes months to prepare. The NIH responds in approximately nine... View Details
Keywords: William Sahlman; Science funding; stem cell research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts

managers to portfolio construction? For the first time, Capital Allocators lifts the lid on this opaque corner of the investment landscape. Drawing on interviews from the first 150 episodes of the Capital... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 30 Mar 2022
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Giving Hope and Comfort

often-overlooked aspect of poverty. Feingold himself didn’t understand the need until 2010, when he and his wife were discussing how to celebrate their children’s second and fourth birthdays. At the time, Feingold was a portfolio manager... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

Stanley’s experience is typical of other investment banks at the time. “We got into the investing side of the business primarily because the opportunity was there to buy nonperforming loan portfolios from the RTC,” recalls Slaughter. From... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

game and that a passive approach is more profitable in today’s market. By adjusting your portfolio asset weights to match a performance index, you consistently earn higher rates of returns and come out on top in the long run. This book... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup

of mine, Carl Kester. He takes some offense when I beat up on it. Sorry, Carl!” Sahlman’s perspective was influenced by his father, a successful manager who had dealt with similar kinds of resource allocation issues. Sahlman knew that in... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
  • 01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

liquid and effective," he says. "Mutual funds deepen the capital markets, and the capital markets lubricate our entire economy by allocating financial resources." For the consumer, the mutual fund combines a number of attractions in a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy

customers, in other words — and its position vis-à-vis competitors. If an enterprise had different lines of business, it might view these in historical terms — “First we got into radio, which led us into television” — or as a capital View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

challenge facing today's business leaders is threefold. While the old strategy-structure-systems doctrine was very effective at allocating capital, he explains, it has proven a constraint as companies try to manage information, knowledge,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
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