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- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
short-term volatility of inflation-indexed bond returns do not invalidate the basic case for these bonds, that they provide a safe asset for long-term investors. Governments should expect inflation-indexed bonds to be a relatively cheap...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
power plants were financed with long-term fixed price contracts for both inputs (gas supply) and outputs (and electricity purchase). More recently, "merchant plants" were financed without the benefit of long-term contracts, leaving them exposed to competitive...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
rising prices, an underdeveloped legal system, and volatility in its equity markets. This dichotomy, Yoffie surmised, is an unmistakable sign that something is afoot - as he put it, "a paradigm shift" - glimpsed by conference participants...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
Business School Case 311-096 How can a company that supplies disaster response and humanitarian agencies best handle the intrinsically unpredictable and highly volatile demand for its products? Utilis is a French supplier of rapid-deploy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
society that should offer a safety net, but also companies, where they recognize that employees are, first and foremost, people who must manage through the volatility we all experience over the course of our lives. Employees are there...
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Model outlines the author’s unique leadership principles, what he calls “Personal” and “Professional” Leadership. To illustrate what works and what doesn’t, the author takes readers inside the highly volatile beverage industry and shares...
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- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
insurance developed stronger private equity markets in high volatility sectors over 1990-2004. These patterns are further evident in U.S. investments into Europe. In this context, policy mechanisms are more important than the overall...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
For example, managing earnings to meet analyst expectations may start out being rationalized as necessary to avoid undue volatility in the stock price but end up being used to artificially pump up the stock price so executives can...
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by Carla Tishler
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
are nodding their heads about that volatility and trying to work its way through the system and get to what will be a more regular environment. Let me end with a question that I think draws upon the fact that you spend so much time with...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
volatility in the equity markets has only reemphasized the need for many that having the right solution despite what the market conditions might be at that point in time is really important. Derek van Bever: Luis, you anticipated this...
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bank runs, global health crises, rapid changes in consumer tastes and societal expectations as well as radical technological breakthroughs create dramatic uncertainty in the lives of most managers. This course asks how to best manage risk and uncertainty in View Details