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February 2004

Features
Choice in the Marketplace
Customers may not know what they want and second guessing them can be expensive, according to recent GSB marketing research. [Details]

Credit Risk Trading
Alumni and finance faculty offer insight into a burgeoning industry in trading the risks of defaults. [Details]

Leadership
Sloan graduate Loring Knoblauch updates 109-year-old Underwriters Laboratories. [Details]

Strategy
Saving U.S. history on Ellis Island was entrusted to Lisa Nitze, a veteran of complex private-public sector projects. [Details]

Collaboration
A menacing, mechanical Stonehenge emerges from the passion and ashes of a high-tech startup. [Details]

February 2004 cover
February cover

Photograph by Pete McArthur
Credit risk derivatives spread risk of corporate defaults among more investors. [Details]
Photograph by
Pete McArthur

 


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Kathleen O'Toole, Editor From the Editor
Robert Joss, Dean Dean's Column
Ideas            
  Consumers Economics More Research Faculty Publications
  An "A" in the Window
Opens the Door
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Change Power Balance
  More Ideas from the
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Preparing Heirs Not to Lose the Family Fortune
Business School alumni and others discuss the difficulty of handing off a fortune to the next generation so that it survives to the third generation.

 

Global Business Ethics
An alumnus offers a cautionary tale of corruption and other dangers in today's global business environment.  [Details]

Eric Tyson for Dummies
A deep interest in numbers and finance and a desire to help the average investor led Eric Tyson, MBA '89, to author a series of "Dummies" books in areas of personal finance. [Details]

The Business School & Its Graduates

Spreadsheet: What's Up

First ImpressionsBusiness Etiquette
MBA students practice business etiquette in workshops organized by the School's Management Communication program.

Hot Ticket VenueIllustration by Mark Matcho
Eric Baker and Jeffrey Fluhr, MBA '01, created StubHub for people to buy and sell sports and entertainment tickets.


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