Bob Aliber remembers George Schultz
The venerable sage, Bob Aliber (and co-author of Manias, Panics, and Crashes), sent along this fine memory of the late,
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Uplifting News to End a Dismal Year
E, a Latina immigrant and single mother, who tidies my (bijou) apartment just heard her son was admitted to Harvard
Read MoreNew paper on Anonymous Lemons
European Financial Managment has just published ‘Symmetrical Ignorance: The Cost of Anonymous Lemons.’ It’s (kind of) a 50th Anniversary ‘inversion’
Read MoreGrowing scholarships offered by the Indian Women Scientists Association.
Good to see their scholarships for “girl students” in science (;-)) keeps growing. I gave one in my parent’s name
Read MoreConfronting our inhumanity
I regard death from disease, storms, earthquakes, accidents, and misadventures as an integral part of the natural order. Certainly sad
Read MoreImpossible Shoes, difficult timing
From the May 14 2020 Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Board announcement: “Professor John Kay has decided not to stand for
Read MoreHindu/Vedantic views on life and death (rather personal!)
An oped in today’s WSJ about “Rage[ing] Against the ‘Bioethicists’ and the Dying of the Light” reminded me how different
Read MoreHonesty in Pandemic Modelling
This fine post by Maria Chikina (Pitt) and Wesley Pegden (CMU) reaches important if unpalatable conclusions, including: “There is a
Read MoreQualifying Clay Christensen
Amar Bhidé and Pankaj Ghemawat Quartz October 9, 2014 Clay Christensen’s theories are great for entrepreneurs, but not executives Simplicity
Read MoreCase History Project Launched
We (Amar Bhidé, Srikant Datar, and Katherine McCaffrey) with the generous support of David Roux) have started a project to
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