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Budget percentages
"I believe it is impractical to structure in percentages when life is so unstructured. Life challenges and budget disciplines are not measured in percentages… they are measured in occurrences for which many cannot control in the early part of his or her career. There is plenty of time later on in life to address savings requirements."
Private equity firms chase profits, not championships. So why does one w...
"Owning a sports team, or even a piece of it, is a crowning achievement," said senior lecturer Ben Shields. "It's the ultimate vanity asset."
Surging stock made Palantir's Alex Karp $6.8 billion richer last year, m...
Senior lecturer Egor Matveyev said: "Effectively, the huge pay package Alex Karp received was in 2020. They were designed as very long-term stock awards with a very long-term vesting period."
What is systemic investing?
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Systemic investing offers a route to sustainably realizing financial and eco-social value. The key is understanding and embracing the complexity of systems.
MIT Kuo Sharper Webinar Series
From corporate-unicorn partnerships to the power of local trust, here how our Entrepreneur-In-Residence Andrea Kates outlines the real-world imperatives facing entrepreneurs, scaleups, and executives alike. The blog previews upcoming topics in the series, including AI in emerging economies, infrastr...
Stock market crashes has Wall Street whispering 'dot-com 2.0'
"There was a lot of hype around the internet, which materialized well before anybody had a business model for making money from the internet."
This Fintech Sandbox co-founder champions free data for startups
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Sarah Biller builds tech organizations ready for a “permissionless, frictionless, contactless” financial services sector.
Athanasios Orphanides on real-time monetary rules and their impact on th...
"If you are giving policy advice in real time you have to take into account what are the informational constraints."
Challenging Assumptions by Micheil Banoub
This raises another question: how can SMEs afford annualized rates exceeding 70%? The answer lies in short loan tenures and high profit margins. Many supply contracts have short tenures of 1-2 months, meaning the interest accumulated is minimal relative to the loan term. Moreover, as I learned durin...
Remove the unnecessary and expensive costs of rate-and-term refinances
"There are a lot of transaction costs and unnecessary costs involved and, in addition, some people are benefiting from refis and others are not."
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