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Finance Can Be a Noble Profession (Yes, Really)

Harvard Business Review

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. And it is truly fascinating.

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For a New Way to Manage Risk, Look to the Past

Harvard Business Review

By Focusing on Resilient Risk Management Ebola Battlers Can Learn from Venice's Response to Black Death NPR Every now and then, a story comes along that makes us editors say, "Why didn''t we think of that?" This all comes down to what the article’s authors call resilient risk management. Risk management'

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Will Economics Finally Get Its Paradigm Shift?

Harvard Business Review

Ethics alert: this account is shamelessly self-plagiarized from something I wrote a few years ago.). That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance. Economy Finance Risk management' Physicists, in his experience, didn’t do that. This wasn’t because they were any smarter than social scientists, Kuhn concluded.

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Make Sure Your Team’s Workload Is Divided Fairly

Harvard Business Review

The Genesis team included 12 HR professionals located in the US, Mexico, China, and Germany as well as other employees from IT, finance, the office of the general counsel, and purchasing. To make sure this happened she held regular forums for issue and risk management. “I knew her work ethic,” he says.