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- 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
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Water, Water Everywhere
right to have it," Mark explained. "But not much has been done to increase the supply and quality of the supply of water and to be able to economically allocate it to the right locations." Mark grew up on a farm and as a result was savvy...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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A Student Plan Goes to Washington
encourage non-TARP companies to allocate voluntarily slots for three CGC directors. The proposal anticipates demand for roughly 500 professional directors within five years. “I wouldn’t say that the current corporate governance View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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India is more Transparent
First, most of the domestic assets of Chinese companies are not publicly listed. Second, Chinese financial analysts are not independent but state-owned or state-controlled, as are the companies on which they issue reports. “Is it easier...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
From left: Scott Duke Kominers and Charles C.Y. Wang (Image by John Ritter) Cryptocurrencies have been edging their way out of the periphery for the last decade and proliferating as they go: About 18,000 digital currencies currently exist and hit a total market cap of...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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What is Web3?
Web3, a new era of the internet, uses blockchains, tokens, and wallets (tools for storing and managing digital assets) to facilitate a wide range of services and functionalities, including the transfer of assets from person-to-person. It represents a paradigm shift...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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New Releases
and product markets." Jensen and his contributors detail three major systems that play a critical role in organizational strategy and help address control problems within the decentralized organization. They are a View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
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Passion & Purpose
Founding Partner and Managing Director, JGP Asset Management Rio de Janeiro, Brazil André R. Jakurski “I do not believe in long-range planning. Most of the important things that have happened in my life were not planned.” Having learned...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail
assets reaching roughly $10 trillion, equivalent to total assets in the entire U.S. banking system. Says Moss: “While new systemic threats had emerged along the way, there was...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
topics in international finance, including securitization of insurance risks (particularly those linked to catastrophes), risk management for corporations and financial institutions, and asset allocation for...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
bond markets, commodity markets, and derivatives markets. In fact, so did all asset classes — not to mention those that benefit when bonuses are big, from vintage Bordeaux to luxury yachts. But these boom years were also misery years,...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
asset allocations to commercial property holdings. Until recently, says Dubrowski, institutional investors limited their commercial real estate allocations to between 3 and 5...
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- 17 Apr 2020
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Decreasing the Wealth Gap
the way the system is working in a way to increase the size of the pie and divide it well,” he told NPR’s Noel King. While he did share his fear that the economic aftereffects of the pandemic could increase social unrest, Dalio offers a...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
structures and systems as well as reconciling the varying speeds at which divisions within a company may develop. Merson explores these different aspects of growth and outlines strategies and tactics to enable businesses to move forward...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Social Investing Pioneers
allocation to this new asset class of social investment, the same way that venture capital and private equity benefit today from such allocations.” The idea is taking off in the United States. President...
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- 01 Oct 1998
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Beyond the Numbers
says. "I wanted the practical methodology for solving problems you get from dealing with case studies. " These days, Robinson enjoys spending more time with his wife, Leila, who is managing director of global asset View Details
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Addressing The Financial Security Gap
leadership, BlackRock’s Retirement Group, which manages $1.3 trillion in retirement assets for some 35 million Americans, has taken steps to address these issues. In 2020 they held the BlackRock Savings Summit, a virtual retirement...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 1998
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Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
utilizes the one asset that exists in abundance in even the poorest and most fragile social sectors - people's self-initiative. It increases the productivity of the person engaged in economic activity, thereby creating new wealth, rather...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
POZEN: Offers a plan for overhauling the U.S. financial system to avoid a repeat of the recent market meltdown. Most books about the nation’s financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
are performed to a high standard. There is a vast literature on the choices, structures, and supporting systems involved in modern management, including strategy, organization structure, planning and resource allocation, and management...
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