Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heyday of takeover lending and junk-bond financing, the patrician investment firm Morgan Stanley was often the butt of ridicule. While more aggressive firms plunged into risky new techniques, Morgan, despite a leading role in corporate takeovers, seemed stuck in its stodgy habit of underwriting stock for blue-chip companies and selling investment-grade bonds. The new breed was playing high-stakes Monopoly, the joke went, while the stuffed shirts at Morgan were playing Trivial Pursuit. But no one is laughing at Morgan's expense anymore. The firm, founded in 1935, is the most profitable on Wall Street, posting record...
News Editor for this Issue: Melissa R. Hart '91 Night Editors: Andrew D. Cohen '92 Chip Cummins '92 Melissa R. Hart '91 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Editorial Editor: Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 Feature Editor: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Sports Editors: Andrew M. Fine '91 Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editors: William H. Bachman '92 Michael F. Koehler '92 Business Editor: Raymond Nomizu '91 Copy Editor: Lori E. Smith...
...Cabot's willingness to venture into uncharted investment areas that has defined the philosophy of HMC over the course of his tenure. Starting with a portfolio with "100 percent of Harvard's equity in large, common blue-chip stocks," Cabot says he threw out tradition and began looking to areas previously shunned by endowment managers...
...traditional philosophy has been the 'tension' portfolio," Cabot says. "The usual standard of performance has been the Standard and Poors 500 index, and it is representative of the large common stocks. I have tried to diversify away from blue-chip into less competitive areas of the equity market...
...field of optical computing faded into relative obscurity, but it was revived in 1986 by a breakthrough at AT&T Bell Labs. Research scientist David Miller developed the world's tiniest optical switch, a thin chip that in its latest version measures no more than 10 micrometers (0.00004 in.) on a side. Made of advanced synthetic materials, the device can turn on and off a billion times a second without overheating...