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Banking for the Unbanked: The Next Level for Overseas Money Transfers
Remittance facilitator ZymPay Says It Offers a Simpler Way to Handle Cross-border Money Transfers.
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Why Even the Best Forecasters Sometimes Miss the Mark
Forecasters are human, and forecasting models, for all their dispassion, are built by people. But specialists in forecasting say that despite their limitations, they remain a strong improvement over pure guesswork.
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Is It Possible to Defog America’s Corporate Financial Reports?
Almost nobody can fully understand big companies’ dense, complex and overlong financial statements, and all of those issues are only getting worse. That part is obvious. Why it’s happening is not.
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George Washington: America’s First Entrepreneur
A new book by University of Virginia professor Edward Lengel explores the business acuity of the first U.S. president.
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Why the ‘Living Wills’ of Top U.S. Banks Failed the Test
Eight years after the Great Recession, top U.S. banks are still not ready to cope with the aftermath of another financial crisis, according to a report from the Federal Reserve and the FDIC.
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Lauder Student Profile: John Withers, Class of 2017
Hear from current MBA/MA student, John Withers, ’17, on his reasons for applying to Lauder, his experience in the program, and his advice for applicants considering Lauder. Click thru to hear more from John.
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Santander Globalization TrendLab 2016
Water: Scarcity, Excess, and the Geopolitics of Allocation The Globalization TrendLab at the Lauder Institute and The Wharton School annually generates new knowledge and analysis on the problems and opportunities inherent to a global economy through annual academic conferences linking highly respected global scholars and practitioners. The sixth conference took place during March 2016 and…
Life at Lauder
Santander Globalization TrendLab 2016
Water: Scarcity, Excess, and the Geopolitics of Allocation The Globalization TrendLab at the Lauder Institute and The Wharton School annually generates new knowledge and analysis on the problems and opportunities inherent to a global economy through annual academic conferences linking highly respected global scholars and practitioners. The sixth conference took place during March 2016 and…
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Is the Real Estate Crowdfunding Market Getting Too Crowded?
RealtyMogul CIO Timothy Li explains the attraction of real estate crowdfunding and why he believes a shakeout is not imminent.
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Is Social Security Really Running Short?
The U.S. Social Security system faces insolvency, says Wharton’s Olivia S. Mitchell. Fewer young workers are paying into the system relative to rising numbers of longer-living retirees.
