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Day Traders Drive Hedge Funds to Irrational Heights
Theorists have argued that hedge funds nudge irrationally priced
securities back into place. Not necessarily say researchers who
argue that many hedge funds rode the economically irrational
technology bubble of the late '90s. Still, the scholars blame the
bust on unsophisticated traders, not the funds themselves.
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Mexican Immigrants Don't Thrive Like Other Newcomers
Immigrants from Mexico do far worse than other nationalities when
they immigrate to the United States, but Prof. Edward Lazear says
that's due more to U.S. immigration policy than to the immigrants
themselves.
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Energy Could be a 21st Century Boom Industry
The search for alternative energy sources could rival the Internet
boom of the 1990s in opportunities for investors and entrepreneurs.
Identifying alternatives to fossil fuels "has been the technology of
tomorrow every day for the past 20 years," jokes Andrew Beebe,
president of Energy Innovations.
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Good News and Bad for Women's Careers
Across the board, women seem to be enjoying greater professional
parity with men—except in "good-old-boy companies," where a woman's
personal style and needs for work/family balance may clash with
organizational expectations, values, and demands.
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Examining Worker Productivity (from Stanford Business magazine)
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How Everyday Things Are Made
How do they get the chartreuse coating on a jelly bean or
assemble an airplane? "How Everyday Things are Made," a
website created by the Alliance for Innovative Manufacturing
at Stanford, describes these and other everyday
manufacturing processes.
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CEO Mulcahy Gives Her View of the Xerox Turnaround
Anne Mulcahy spent 90 days listening and asking questions
when she took over as CEO of Xerox in 2001 as the firm faced
the real possibility of corporate bankruptcy.
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Breakfast Briefings
A monthly series hosts industry leaders and tenured faculty
from Stanford sharing ideas on business today.
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What is a Sugarplum?
They are candies made from dried fruits, honey, and spices,
rolled into balls, then rolled in sugar. Unlike these
candies, real dried plums are used in the traditional
Christmas dessert plum pudding.
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Beyond the Glitter
Tiffany & Co. moves to get African conflict diamonds out of
its stores. (from the Stanford Social Innovation Review)
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The Rule of Law? Whose Law?
The rule of law is a concept much in use to identify what is
missing in many countries, but most people do not have a
very precise idea of what this means. Stanford University
President Emeritus Gerhard Casper explores the issue.
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Common Bonds
Two Chicago nonprofit job training programs find strength
and stability in a merger. When should nonprofits consider a
merger and how can such a merger work to the advantage of
both parties? (from the Stanford Social Innovation Review)
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