Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

An unfortunate reality of many African economies is that only a tiny fraction of the population participates in the formal economy. Firms are realizing what microfinance has known for a while: Local self-policing groups, or village headmen who police honor codes, can hedge cash flows in far-flung places. Top of the Pyramid.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2014

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.” People feel envy and regret they haven’t participated. Economy Finance Managing uncertainty' There were no bubbles before there were news media.”.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

With their participation, the market in question becomes more efficient. It has spurred the growth of an entire industry that exists only to exploit volatility: the hedge fund business. Economy Finance' They are useful. They help sellers find buyers and vice versa. That dark side has not gone unnoticed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. With these, you actually participate in the upside of your customers, and therefore your business grows with them. Private equity or hedge funds through the ‘80s and the ‘90s, exactly the same story.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Well, he's a hedge fund veteran who has always taken a skeptical view of Wall Street, treating it more as a loopy rich uncle than the efficient information processor of standard finance theory. How has Bezos done this?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

One quant designer at a New York hedge fund (that trades more in a week than a Fortune 250 company makes in a year) confided: “It took years for us to trust the algorithms enough to resist the temptation to override them… There are still [occasional] trades we won’t make and [not doing them] almost always costs us money.”

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Market participants are much more likely to mistake old news for new when the old information is drawn from multiple sources than when it is directly reprinted from a single previous story. In “News Consumption: From Information to Returns,” I compare the news consumption patterns of different finance professionals.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

As someone who works in finance and is currently a student in the executive MBA program at the Wharton School, I’ve heard men say that they’re less likely to hire or associate with women as a result of the intensity of MeToo. I now worry that the movement has already sparked a destructive backlash.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

In an essay earlier this week on the evolution of money and finance, GigaOM founder and venture capitalist Om Malik argued that crowdfunding will be the new day trading, the latest financial innovation to “cut costs and [drive] wider participation in a previously closed and clubby market.” Not everyone agrees.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

By reducing transaction costs among all participants in the economy, blockchain supports models of peer-to-peer mass collaboration that could make many of our existing organizational forms redundant. Menlo Park venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz joined USV in investing in Polychain Capital , a hedge fund that only buys tokens.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Third, as a result of strong performances by worker- and employee-owned companies, it is becoming easier for workers to overcome arguably the biggest hurdle to worker buyouts: financing. The co-op gives lobstermen a way to participate in the wholesale market and to share in the profits. Already, U.S. Already, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

He pledges to reverse reforms that improved labor-market flexibility and private-sector participation in formerly protected industries like energy. Multinational companies should pressure-test 2018 sales targets and currency hedging against this scenario. Asia-Pacific: China Sea Flashpoints Could Obstruct the Global Supply Chain.

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