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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

No, I bring this up because as we watch the shows that close out the year, as face after face of the celebrities who passed away are projected on our television screens, as tributes and speeches are made about the talent, beauty, genius and uniqueness of a particular dead celebrity or entrepreneur—I am thinking about their estates.

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How the Next Generation Is Approaching Society’s Biggest Problems

Harvard Business Review

Kahn, 38 years old, graduated from MIT in 1998 and Harvard Business School in 2003. How did Sal Khan finance his venture? First, Sal Khan could have continued in finance and made far more money than he does in a nonprofit. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems.

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What’s That You’re Calling a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

Fama is convinced that financial bubbles don’t exist, and until the dot-com era he was able to keep most of his colleagues in academic finance from even using the word “bubble.” Its stock price, meanwhile, fell from $80 in March 2000 to $9 in October 2003; it’s currently trading in the low 20s. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty'

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IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)

Harvard Business Review

Even after more than 20 years of implementations, a study by Panorama shows that 53% of ERP projects still run over budget, 61% take longer to complete than anticipated, and more than 27% fail to produce the positive ROI expected. The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology. Accountability.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. In November 2003, after due diligence, we announced our agreement to purchase 3721 for $120 million. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

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Six Paradoxes Women Leaders Face in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Some of the gap can be attributed to career choice: more women than men choose to go into teaching and social work, for example, which pay less relative to "male" professions such as finance and technology. Women must project gravitas in order to advance at work, yet they also need to retain their "feminine mystique" in order to be liked.