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...mobilize yuan assets to acquire and grow overseas businesses. Recent purchases by Chinese financial institutions have not turned out well. Insurer Ping An, which paid $3.5 billion for around 5% of Fortis, a European financial group, has decided to write off most of that investment after Fortis' share price fell 78% in the fourth quarter...
...Class Day festivities. Both Dimon and student speaker Thomas C. Rajan struck melancholy tones in their remarks, emphasizing the need for greater reflection and responsibility among business executives in the current economic climate. The event was held on Baker Lawn in the afternoon, and light rain periodically fell as students and their families gathered to honor HBS professors, present the class gift, and celebrate the conclusion of their studies. Following brief remarks by Dean Jay O. Light, student Deirdre-Ann L. Perry introduced the concept of Class Day, saying it was “designed by the students...
...bricks and coursepacks but rather something that is only tangible in the shared experiences. The Asian tourists posing for pictures in front of your entryway door or snapping pictures of your flabby pale self running Primal Scream, the professor who is interviewed on TV as an expert although you fell asleep in half his lectures, or the President of Mongolia’s security detail pushes you aside in the yard so the President’s unwashed hand can touch John’s unwashed bronze shoe. From the shared experiences like these, we have the moments when...
...unions, management, civic leaders and just about everyone else in Michigan mismanage the postwar years? Of course. But the real point about Detroit is not that it fell so far, but that it once rose so high. Its economic success during World War II and the immediate aftermath was a freak of geopolitics. With most of the rest of the world (including some regions that were as technologically advanced as Michigan) consumed by war, only the U.S. and Canada were able to develop the high-tech industries of scale that were needed to fight the Axis powers. So successful were...
...number of seniors entering finance and consulting has fallen from 47 percent in 2007 to 39 percent in 2008 to 20 percent for the current Class of 2009. The financial sector saw the largest reduction, falling from 23 percent to 11.5 percent, while the share of seniors entering consulting fell from 16 percent to 8.5 percent. Click image above for graphical survey results...