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Can Your Company Survive a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

The trio (respectively, a finance professor at Cornell, an applied-math Ph.D This is the kind of thing that can drive people outside of quantitative finance a little crazy ; there's no reference to company fundamentals, just "sophisticated volatility estimation techniques combined with the method of reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces."

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A Female-Dominated Workplace Won't Fix Everything

Harvard Business Review

On the other hand, the metrics of 21st century female professional and economic empowerment have become a tide. But there are gender-based distinctions in how men and women were able to regulate and manage their emotional response to these stimuli. I'd like to think that today, with U.S.

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The Secrets to TripAdvisor's Impressive Scale

Harvard Business Review

The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash , a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital. TripAdvisor And Expedia: From $4 million invested to $4 billion in value. As a result, gross margins are very high at 98% (not a typo!)

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