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Why Quants Should Manage Your Supply Chain Risk

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, anyone who claims to be managing supply chain risk without understanding subjects like real options, hedging, Value at Risk models, financial simulation, and so on, is more like a security guard than a real risk manager. CEOs and CFOs should consider rethinking who is managing risk in their global supply chains.

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What If Investors Who Held Their Shares Longer Got More Voting Power?

Harvard Business Review

But I long for actions that go beyond admonitions to managers and boards to do better, that give both parties a better chance to stand up to capital markets players, like activist hedge funds, pressuring them to become too short-term focused. The Refresher: Net Present Value. Related Video.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

You know, the future value of money, the present value of money — money today is worth more than in the future because you can invest it and get interest. You have to be a macro hedge fund, and not only do you the hedge fund manager have to have nerves of steel, your clients have to have nerves of steel.

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