Word: decisional
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Spies, guns, poison, intertwined plots so convoluted that you need to keep flicking back to the beginning of the book: it could all come from the pages of a cold war thriller. But it is very of the moment. The British government's decision to protest Moscow's refusal to...
The money managers at Dodge & Cox have heard the adage that a camel is a horse designed by committee. They politely disagree. Their horse, you see, keeps winning. Each of the firm's four mutual funds has from nine to 18 portfolio managers, and every one gets equal say in...
In fact, assets grew so quickly that the firm decided to close both its Stock and its Balanced portfolios to new investors--a decision that benefits current shareholders but not necessarily the firm since it collects a percentage of assets. "We are capitalists," says Gunn, "but long-term capitalists. And...
Dodge & Cox has also found there to be an important structural element to team decision making. "Committees react best to a specific proposition," says Bryan Cameron, director of research and a member of the committees that pick domestic and foreign stocks. So when analysts make a presentation, they propose a...
Since Sept. 11, the Bush Administration has hailed Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as a stalwart ally in the war on terrorism, providing as much as $10 billion in aid to his government. The U.S. believes Musharraf's autocratic rule is preferable to what might replace it: a nuclear-armed, fundamentalist...