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Warren Buffett's 2010 Shareholder Letter: What to Expect

Harvard Business Review

26, many thousands of people around the world will download Warren Buffett's 2010 shareholder letter. I will be among the crowd checking to see what is revealed in his newest letter. A careful study of Buffett's letters over the past 45 years led me to a startling conclusion: his messages almost never change.

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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.

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Kettering Award - Thank You

Chris Brady

But there was one that, to me at least, was world class: GMI Engineering & Management Institute (today's Kettering University ). The program was attractive to a kid like me without any finances because it offered a co-op experience in which every other twelve weeks were spent in the workplace somewhere out in actual industry.

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Don't Just Tell Them - Tell Them A Story

Chris Brady

Example: When I was but a wee engineer just cutting my teeth in the profession, I had the good fortune to be thrown in with several elderly gentlemen who were extremely accomplished in the field. Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Error type: Your comment has been saved. Please try again.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

For example, as a designer/writer, my skills are not well applied to bookkeeping or financial management. Similarly, make sure your OWN site has the best key words for the search engines. Write letters to the editors and blogs to encourage dialogue. A good way to start honing this courage is through Letters to Editors.

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CEOs Don’t Care Enough About Capital Allocation

Harvard Business Review

As the chart below shows, only half of the CEOs of companies in the Dow Jones Index have previous experience in corporate finance or strategy. Financial analysis Financial management' It’s worse in Europe, where the proportion falls to just 32% of CEOs of EuroStoxx50 companies.

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

Harvard Business Review

I do have a 15-year-old who could not in a million years be bothered to send Apple’s Tim Cook a letter urging him to “meaningfully accelerate and increase the magnitude of share repurchases.” If necessary, write another letter, or a few tweets. billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land.

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