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- Global Middle Class to Double in 30 Years
- The Find: The global middle class is set to more than double between 2000 and 2030 offering massive opportunities -- and massive challenges -- to managers at multinational companies. The Source: "The New Global Middle Class- Potentially Profitable but Also Unpredictable" in Knowledge @Wharton. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- Technology: How Much Do Managers Need to Know?
- Tonight marked the midway point in our Technology Management class. Not surprisingly -- at least to me -- so far, the class has focused a lot on security, but we're not stopping there. I think we've finally hit on a course that's really applicable for would-be managers -- and I'm...
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- Don't make this rookie MBA student mistake
- Tonight, we had our first quiz in Financial Accounting. Sounds easy enough, doesn't it? I'm pretty sure I bombed it -- embarrassingly so. I could blame it on the fact that I've never had accounting (never mind the fact that many people who know...
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- How Much is Getting in the Right Class Worth to You?
- BNET's Michael Mattis recently passed on an article to me about colleges that take getting into the right class to a whole new level ("Class Warfare: When Getting In Is the Hardest Part"). It seems some schools have enacted programs such as lotteries to help students get into highly popular...
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
- Learning to Appreciate the Finer Things in Life
- It started with a professor telling our MBA class that we'd better learn how to play golf. Golf, he proclaimed, was a necessity once you've penetrated the higher ranks of an organization. A week or so later, we found out that one of our Saturday classes would...
- Blog posts 2008-01-31
- Finding the Value in Wasted Time
- Tonight, I sat in class and listened to my fellow classmates summarize points from a textbook. Let me repeat that. Tonight, I, a 31-year-old graduate student, sat in class and listened to other grad students basically read from a college textbook. (Oh, I also...
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
- Learning Overtime
- I am not a fan of meetings. This is not a secret; people who work with me are all too familiar with my distaste. It's not that I think all meetings are pointless. But enough of my time -- and my coworkers' time -- has been wasted over the years...
- Blog posts 2007-11-28
- Jumping into the Gender Gap
- Last week during a break, I found out that our inaugural class of the university's new MBA program had lost a comrade. She wasn't the first, so it wasn't a huge surprise. Our class started the program with 56 members. Three months in, we're already down to 53. ...
- Blog posts 2007-11-19
- Online Learning Platform eduFire Raises $1.3 Million
- eduFire, an online learning platform, has raised $1.3 million in a first round of funding from from Battery Ventures, Western Technology Investment, and Gokul Rajaram, who helped launch Google’s AdSense. Using eduFire’s service, anybody can set up a virtual classroom, where they can teach a live class. Teachers charge...
- External links 2009-09-08
- FGX International Holdings Limited, Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you, sir. Operator Instructions We will take our first question from Mr. Doug Lane with Jeffries. Please go ahead sir. Douglas Lane - Jefferies & Company Yeah, hi, good morning, Alec and Anthony. Alec Taylor Hey Doug, how are you? Douglas Lane -...
- Earnings calls 2009-05-07
- Class B Mutual Fund Shares: Do They Make the Grade?
- Buying mutual funds through a broker or other investment professional usually means choosing among different mutual fund classes. The only differences among these classes is how much you will pay in expenses and how much your broker will be paid for selling you the fund. A single mutual fund, with...
- White papers 2003-06-25
- Stumped by the Crisis? Brush Up on Financial Markets for Free Online
- The Find: If you're still a little baffled by the intricacies of the financial markets behind the current crisis, brush up for free with online classes from eminent Yale economist Robert Schiller. The Source: The FT Management blog. The Takeaway: It's the best deal...
- Blog posts 2008-10-27
- Obama: The Creative Class President?
- The Find: Barack Obama's victory represents the triumph of the creative class, and that doesn't bode well for old line manufacturers and agribusiness, argues one prominent academic and author. The Source: An article by Joel Kotkin, the director of the Urban Futures Program at Chapman University and...
- Blog posts 2008-11-26
- Investors at Odds Over Lamar Advertising's Future
- Lamar Advertising is likely in for a year of depressed revenues simply because companies are cutting back on advertising, and therefore the billboards that the company provides, in the recession. What this means for Lamar's future, however, is an open question judging by recent maneuverings in its stock. ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
- Trim Your Meetings to Boost Productivity
- Can cutting 10 minutes out of a meeting make your whole day run better? There's no doubt, says David Silverman at Harvard. He proposes that we start thinking about a standard 50-minute meeting, rather than the traditional one-hour block. Why? Think about how a...
- Blog posts 2009-08-12
- Tough Economy Tough For Grads
- In the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, millions of college students who will graduate this spring are now facing very bleak job prospects. Priya David reports from Washington.
- Videos 2009-04-18
- How I Graduated From Berkeley in Two Years
- Hardly anyone graduates from college in four years anymore. Just 28% of students manage to earn a college degree from state universities in the traditional time. So it was a stunning feat when Angelica Kalika earned a bachelor degree in just two years. She wrote about how...
- Blog posts 2009-08-11
- Wholesale Business Secrets Revealed - Lean Details In This Must Read Report
- Learn the secrets of one of the oldest and most profitable business in the world, Wholesale Business. It has been in place since the start of civilization. It is responsible for creating wealth and a new class, the rich class. This class created wealth and did not inherited it from...
- White papers 2008-04-23
- Speaking In Public: Public Speaking 101
- Close your eyes and imagine you're in a classroom; the class is full of a whole diverse group of individuals. Whom do you think speaks well and who is a public embarrassment? You probably might select those who look smart or those who often recite in class as being stellar...
- White papers 2007-01-17
- "True" Stochastic Volatility and a Generalized Class of Affine Models
- This article identifies a class of term structure models possessing a generalized affine-structure that significantly extends the class studied by Duffie, Pan, and Singleton (2000). For this class of models, which includes infinite-state-variable and infinite-factor models, closed-form solutions for bond-option prices are obtained. Two special cases are investigated. First, a...
- White papers 2000-06-26
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