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SAC and the Strange Focus on Insider Trading

Harvard Business Review

Just in the past few months, the Columbia Business Law Review has come out with an entire issue devoted to the topic (based on a symposium held at Columbia last fall), and Edward Elgar has published a 512-page Research Handbook on Insider Trading (list price, $240) edited by UCLA Law Professor (and prolific blogger ) Stephen Bainbridge.

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11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read

Harvard Business Review

Marcus Aurelius, The Emperor's Handbook. Ferguson is one of our era's preeminent popular historians, and The Ascent of Money traces the evolution of money and financial markets from the ancient world to the modern era. It's an essential primer on the history and current state of finance. Emperor of Rome from 161 to 180 A.D.,

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11 Books Every Young Leader Must Read

Harvard Business Review

Marcus Aurelius, The Emperor's Handbook. Ferguson is one of our era's preeminent popular historians, and The Ascent of Money traces the evolution of money and financial markets from the ancient world to the modern era. It's an essential primer on the history and current state of finance. Emperor of Rome from 161 to 180 A.D.,

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The Fundamentals of Leadership Still Haven’t Changed

Harvard Business Review

The challenge, she said, was that these managers were highly proficient in their own disciplines such as finance, marketing, research, clinical care, and insurance reimbursement — and had demonstrated that they could manage people in these areas — but she needed them to be “bigger” leaders.