Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I find myself hammering out emails at 11PM on Sunday with the TV on and my phone lighting up with messages. Little did he know we were already connected – through bonds of purpose, passion and our alma mater. Without the temptation of the internet and fewer gadgets, there seems to be more hours in the day. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2015

Concerned about the company’s lack of focus, Wall Street hammered the Starbucks stock, resulting in a drop in share price of 28% in one day – a $2 billion loss in the company’s market capitalization. Think of the equity of a brand in terms of a bank account.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

With something like the Riker’s Island social impact bond (which finances behavioral therapy for 16-to-18-year-old jail inmates in New York), the fact that Bloomberg Philanthropies provides a guarantee to that bond is very, very smart because it does two things. Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

[A mini-glossary: beta is the amount that an individual stock fluctuates relative to the overall stock market, and the equity premium is the difference in expected return between stocks and a “riskless” asset such as Treasury bonds.]. Instead what he says is let’s have financial innovation that is actually helpful.

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