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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. Here are the six likeliest reasons I could come up with: Luck: This has been the baseline academic explanation for investing success for five decades now. And maybe random chance does explain a lot of Icahn’s success. Then Andreessen quit the board.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance. Deliver behavioral coaching.

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What It Will Take to Change the Culture of Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

The dissertation became a book, titled What Happened to Goldman Sachs: An Insider’s Story of Organizational Drift and Its Unintended Consequences (HBR Press, 2013). Managing directors would share in the firm’s successes, but also feel it when others incurred losses or when the firm got hit with fines. Compensation Ethics Finance'