Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“Everyone who has worked with American management can testify that the need to satisfy the pension fund manager’s quest for higher earnings next quarter, together with the panicky fear of the raider, constantly pushes top managements toward decisions they know to be costly, if not suicidal, mistakes,” he wrote.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2016

AlphaGo’s success is emblematic of a broader trend: An explosion of data and advances in algorithms have made technology smarter than ever before. In addition to executing well-defined tasks, technology is starting to address broader, more ambiguous problems. Remember Long-Term Capital Management ?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Even in the most hard-nosed of private equity firms or hedge funds you will find that people align with strategies that mean something to them, that they’re passionate about. So here’s the money management industry. Private equity or hedge funds through the ‘80s and the ‘90s, exactly the same story.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

Others, most notably money managers and former Fama students Cliff Asness and John Liew in an epic Institutional Investor article , have done a lot recent to clarify how Fama’s ideas and Shiller’s can at least co-exist peacefully. Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations.

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