An Interview With Behavioral Investing Expert Michael Mauboussin

An Interview With Behavioral Investing Expert Michael Mauboussin

By Matt Koppenheffer | More Articles
March 1, 2014 | Comments (6)

As Managing Director and Head of Global Financial Strategies at Credit Suisse, Michael Mauboussin advises clients on valuation and portfolio positioning, capital markets theory, and competitive strategy analysis. He has also authored three books — Think Twice, The Success Equation, and More Than You Know — and is an adjunct professor of finance at the Columbia Business School, and chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Santa Fe Institute. Read more of this post

The World Loses a Great Investor, CalPERS CIO Joseph Dear

The World Loses a Great Investor

By Morgan Housel | More Articles
February 27, 2014 | Comments (5)

A year ago, I traveled to California with colleagues Brian Richards and Rick Engdahl to interview some of the world’s sharpest economic thinkers, including PIMCO CEO Mohamed El-Erian and former Mitt Romney adviser John Taylor of Stanford University.  Read more of this post

Profits, Purpose, and the Power of Admiration

Profits, Purpose, and the Power of Admiration

By Alyce Lomax | More Articles
March 3, 2014 | Comments (4)

Which American companies are among the best choices for long-term investors? One answer is seeking out the companies that are the most admired — and inspired to make real innovative change. Read more of this post

3 Award-Winning Investing Lessons From the Oscars

3 Award-Winning Investing Lessons From the Oscars

By David Williamson | More Articles
March 2, 2014 | Comments (1)

Sunday night’s 86^th annual Academy Awards didn’t disappoint, crowning 12 Years a SlaveBest Picture, while handing out numerous wins to Dallas Buyers Club and Gravity. This group of Oscar nominees didn’t fail to deliver — with groundbreaking cinematography, strong social commentary, and important investing advice.  Read more of this post

Helvetica: one font to rule them all; For the past 50 years Helvetica has dominated design. But, now its pioneer Mike Parker has passed away, is the era of this sleek, modernist typeface drawing to a close?

Helvetica: one font to rule them all

For the past 50 years Helvetica has dominated design. But, now its pioneer Mike Parker has passed away, is the era of this sleek, modernist typeface drawing to a close?

Steve Rose

The Guardian, Tuesday 4 March 2014 19.00 GMT

Helvetica can be seen on the New York subway system and in countless other instantly recognisable logos. Photograph: Justin Lane/EPA Read more of this post

How Maureen Wheeler recovered her sense of self after selling Lonely Planet

Fiona Smith Columnist

How Maureen Wheeler recovered her sense of self after selling Lonely Planet

Published 08 March 2014 00:01, Updated 08 March 2014 00:06

Maureen Wheeler realised how much of her identity was tied up in the job after selling Lonely Planet. Photo: James Davies Read more of this post

Cotton On co-founder Tania Austin keen to accelerate growth at her new chain Decjuba

Caitlin Fitzsimmons Online editor

Cotton On co-founder Tania Austin keen to accelerate growth at her new chain Decjuba

Published 08 March 2014 00:01, Updated 08 March 2014 00:06

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Tania Austin bought Decjuba because she’s not the kind of person who could spend her day “sitting around having coffee and cake” Read more of this post

‘Better to cannibalise myself than wait for others to do it’: Getty Images founder offers free access to stock photos

‘Better to cannibalise myself than wait for others to do it’: Getty Images founder offers free access to stock photos

Published 07 March 2014 10:08, Updated 07 March 2014 12:06

James Cottam

Getty Images co-founder Jonathan Klein (pictured here at the Sochi Winter Olympics for which Getty was official photographic agency) is confident that social media’s youthful users of today will become the professional image purchasers of the future. Read more of this post

The Saïd family made its fortune in large infrastructure projects in the Middle East, but second-generation Khaled Saïd realised early on it was overseeing the family’s portfolio that he had an eye for.

KHALED SAID: PUZZLES AND PASSION

ARTICLE | 6 MARCH, 2014 10:14 AM | BY NICHOLAS MOODY

As a boy growing up in the UK, Khaled Saïd loved puzzles, maths and “figuring things out”. His father, Wafic, had made much of his fortune building significant infrastructure projects in the Middle East during the 1970s and 1980s. But Saïd, 38, had always been interested in the portfolio side of Saïd Holdings, which his father founded in 1987. Solving where he could fit into his family’s business was one more puzzle he had to “figure out”. Read more of this post

‘The gold rush is over’: Don’t quit your day job just for an app idea, Toronto developer warns

‘The gold rush is over’: Don’t quit your day job just for an app idea, Toronto developer warns

Michael Oliveira, Canadian Press | March 6, 2014 | Last Updated: Mar 6 5:56 PM ET
TORONTO — Convinced you’ve got a brilliant app idea that would surely make you rich if you could just learn to code?

Think again before quitting your day job, warns Matt Coombe, co-founder of the Toronto-based app development company Get Set Games. Read more of this post

How GE Gives Leaders Time to Mentor and Reflect

How GE Gives Leaders Time to Mentor and Reflect

by Raghu Krishnamoorthy  |   11:00 AM March 6, 2014

It is 6:00 a.m. David is starting his first day as the “leader in residence” at Crotonville, GE’s global leadership institute, with a jog around the running trail with a couple of twenty-somethings who are half his age and might be five levels below him on an org chart. Their run is companionable; their discussion, candid. It is a serendipitous moment of connection that the three will always share. Read more of this post

David Peterson invents languages for sci-fi and fantasy dramas such as ‘Game of Thrones’; linguistic construction should be taught at school

March 6, 2014 4:30 pm

Seven words for sword thrust

By Emma Jacobs

When he was a student in linguistics and English at the University of California, Berkeley, David Peterson worked on a secret language for two months. It was called “Megdevi”. This was an amalgam of both his own name and Megan, his girlfriend at the time. Once satisfied with his new words and grammar rules, he presented it to her. It was his grand romantic gesture: a private language they could use to communicate only with each other. Read more of this post

New perspectives on Strategy: “Intellect Inside: How to do more than simply sell your products?” by Philippe Very, Professor at EDHEC Business School

Don’t Let Workplace Feedback Crush You

Don’t Let Workplace Feedback Crush You

By Drake Bennett March 06, 2014

“How’m I doin’?” Ed Koch, the late mayor of New York, would famously shout to his constituents. Cynics say the tic was rhetorical, that hizzoner wasn’t really interested in anything but praise. And judging from American bookstores, Koch was before his time. The nation is obsessed with feedback—how to give and receive it without descending into awkwardness or crushing self-esteem. “One in four employees dreads their performance review more than anything else in their working lives,” write Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen in their book, Thanks for the Feedback, out on March 4. That’s why some companies now refer to it in more euphemistic terms: the “performance appraisal” process or, worse, a “midyear check-in.” Read more of this post

Ask a Billionaire: James Dyson on Dealing With Failure

Ask a Billionaire: James Dyson on Dealing With Failure

March 06, 2014

James Dyson
Founder and chief engineer, Dyson
Net worth: $4.4 billion

What’s your strategy for dealing with failure? Read more of this post

Save Us From the SAT: The SAT is a mind-numbing, stress-inducing ritual of torture

Save Us From the SAT

MARCH 6, 2014

Jennifer Finney Boylan

BELGRADE LAKES, Me. — I WAS in trouble. The first few analogies were pretty straightforward — along the lines of “leopard is to spotted as zebra is to striped” — but now I was in the tall weeds of nuance. Kangaroo is to marsupial as the giant squid is to — I don’t know, maybe D) cephalopod? I looked up for a second at the back of the head of the girl in front of me. She had done this amazing thing with her hair, sort of like a French braid. I wondered if I could do that with my hair. Read more of this post

Fat and fatter：The rich are different, even in India; Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi

Fat and fatter：The rich are different, even in India

Mar 1st 2014 | From the print edition

Indian sons: greedy then, greedy now

Capital: A Portrait of Twenty-First Century Delhi. By Rana Dasgupta.Canongate Books; 455 pages; £25. To be published in America by Penguin Press in May; $27.95. Buy from Amazon.com,Amazon.co.uk

DELHI’S uppity youth wield their influence with one bullying question: “Do you know who my father is?” Every low-level bureaucrat knows that the only acceptable response is meek surrender. Indeed, power by association is written into the law. The long list of people exempt from airport-security screening in India includes, by name, the son-in-law of the current chief of the ruling Congress party. Read more of this post

Pretty much everything about the real identity of bitcoin’s mysterious creator will surprise you

Pretty much everything about the real identity of bitcoin’s mysterious creator will surprise you

By Christopher Mims @mims 2 hours ago

The mysterious, anonymous creator of bitcoin, whose identity has been sought by countless journalists, geeks, and hobbyists since the currency first appeared, has finally been uncovered. Read more of this post

Bitcoin’s mysterious founder has finally been revealed: Satoshi Nakamoto

The Face Behind Bitcoin

By Leah McGrath Goodman / March 6, 2014 6:05 AM EST

Satoshi Nakamoto stands at the end of his sunbaked driveway looking timorous. And annoyed.

He’s wearing a rumpled T-shirt, old blue jeans and white gym socks, without shoes, like he has left the house in a hurry. His hair is unkempt, and he has the thousand-mile stare of someone who has gone weeks without sleep. Read more of this post

Why Google Wants New Hires Who Are Humble And Argue

WHY GOOGLE WANTS NEW HIRES WHO ARE HUMBLE AND ARGUE

IF YOU’RE GOING TO MAKE IT AT GOOGLE, YOU CLEARLY NEED SMARTS. BUT YOU ALSO NEED HUMILITY. GOOGLE’S HUMAN RESOURCE VP EXPLAINS.

BY DRAKE BAER

Google used to be known for having an idiosyncratically intense hiring process: solve a Rubik’s cube while doing a headstand, guess the total number of pubs in England, that sort of thing. Those rigors would yield an interview score, one that would be tagged to candidates and follow the successful ones into the Googleplex. Read more of this post

Startups anonymous: The greatest lesson I never learned

Startups anonymous: The greatest lesson I never learned

BY STARTUPS ANONYMOUS 
ON MARCH 5, 2014

[This is a weekly series that brings you raw, first-hand experiences from founders and investors in the trenches. Their story submissions are anonymous, allowing them to share openly without fear of retribution. Every Wednesday, we’ll run one new story chosen by Dana Severson, who operates StartupsAnonymous, a place for startups to share, ask questions, and  answer them in story-length posts, all anonymously.] Read more of this post

Bitcoin CEO Radtke, 28, was wrestling with professional and personal pressures, not least running a start-up that was struggling to gain traction

CEO in apparent suicide was bitcoin fan, had other issues, too

4:16am EST

By Jeremy Wagstaff and Rujun Shen

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A young American CEO who apparently committed suicide in Singapore was involved in the world of the bitcoin, but was also struggling with other issues prior to her death, friends and colleagues said. Read more of this post

Why Work Is Lonely

Why Work Is Lonely

by Gianpiero Petriglieri  |   1:00 PM March 5, 2014

There is an old cartoon I often show to the managers I work with. It portrays a smiling executive team around a long table. The chairman is asking, “All in favor?” Everyone’s hand is up. Meanwhile, the cloud hovering above each head contains a dissonant view: “You’ve got to be kidding;” “Heaven forbid;” “Perish the thought.” It never fails to provoke awkward laughter of self-recognition. Read more of this post

Singapore’s Megachurches Move to Export Lucrative Religion

Singapore’s Megachurches Move to Export Lucrative Religion

By Laura Philomin on 1:38 pm March 6, 2014.

Worshippers attend a church service at the City Harvest Church in Singapore March 1, 2014. (Reuters Photo/Edgar Su)

Singapore. “God is here, God is here,” croons Singapore church official Sun Ho as she struts across a neon-lit stage and thousands of people in the congregation pump their hands and sing along. Read more of this post

A New SAT Aims to Realign With Schoolwork; for many students, the tests are mysterious and “filled with unproductive anxiety.” And they inspire little respect from classroom teachers: only 20% see the college-admission tests as a fair measure

A New SAT Aims to Realign With Schoolwork

By TAMAR LEWINMARCH 5, 2014

The overall scoring will return to the old 1600 scales, based on a top score of 800 in reading and math. CreditRui Vieira/Press Association

Saying its college admission exams do not focus enough on the important academic skills, the College Board announced on Wednesday a fundamental rethinking of the SAT, ending the longstanding penalty for guessing wrong, cutting obscure vocabulary words and making the essay optional. Read more of this post

The One Statistic That Matters Most To Warby Parker’s Founders: Net Promoter Score, which is a measurement of customer satisfaction

The One Statistic That Matters Most To Warby Parker’s Founders

RICHARD FELONI STRATEGY  MAR. 6, 2014, 4:57 AM

Warby Parker co-founder and co-CEO Dave Gilboa.

David Gilboa founded the innovative eyewear e-commerce company Warby Parker with his Wharton Business School buddies Neil Blumenthal, Andrew Hunt, and Jeffrey Raider back in 2010. Since then, the brand has sold more than half-a-million frames, an impressive number for an online startup competing against the near-monopolistic Luxottica prescription eyewear corporation. Read more of this post

For Those Who Get Discouraged When They Hear The Word ‘No’… Here’s A Rejection Letter U2 Got From A Record Label In 1979

For Those Who Get Discouraged When They Hear The Word ‘No’… Here’s A Rejection Letter U2 Got From A Record Label In 1979

HENRY BLODGET STRATEGY  MAR. 5, 2014, 11:38 PM

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RSO Records sends Paul Hewson (a.k.a., “Bono”) the bad news…

It sucks to hear the word “no.” Read more of this post

At Family Firms, Do CEOs Work Fewer Hours?

At Family Firms, Do CEOs Work Fewer Hours?

RACHEL FEINTZEIG

March 5, 2014 6:54 p.m. ET

What’s the difference between a family firm and a regular business? According to one new study, an empty corner office. Read more of this post

Why we see bosses as parents; Family relationships are often unconsciously recreated at work

March 5, 2014 4:25 pm

Why we see bosses as parents

By Naomi Shragai

When people close their front door in the morning and think they have left their families behind them for a simpler life at work, they are often mistaken. Our families, particularly our earliest relationships, live inside our minds and find their way into all our subsequent relationships, including those in the workplace. Read more of this post

What to do when you have been ‘dreedled’; Many an executive is given to passing unpleasant or daft orders down the line

March 5, 2014 4:15 pm

What to do when you have been ‘dreedled’

By Michael Skapinker

Many an executive is given to passing unpleasant or daft orders down the line

In any organisation, at some point in your career, you are almost certain to be “dreedled” – told to do something by a superior because the superior prefers not to do it. And they, in turn, will often have been told to do it by their superior, who will have been told to do it by theirs. Read more of this post