In 2003, Netflix began an experiment that seemed crazy to management experts. It instituted a policy of unlimited vacation time for its employees. In the years since, a number of other companies have followed Netflix’s lead, offering employees unlimited paid time off. The results have run counter [...]
Risky business
Open a finance textbook, and you’ll find discussions of volatility and beta, value-at-risk, the Sharpe ratio, the Sortino ratio, the Treynor ratio and many others. All of these are quantitative tools for measuring risk. But what should you make of these metrics—are they an effective way to control [...]
Building a barbell
In the weeks since Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) disintegrated, there’s been a good amount of post-mortem analysis. In the end, two factors drove its demise: SVB’s customer base was concentrated among venture capital-backed technology companies. Because of that, nearly 90% of deposits topped the [...]
Avoiding regret
I spoke recently with a fellow who had climbed Mount Everest. The first question I asked: What was it like at the top? What I expected him to say was that the view was dramatic. Instead, he said, his time at the summit turned out to be less than he’d expected. For starters, it was 4:45 in the [...]
What investors can learn from Silicon Valley Bank
In the week since Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) failed, a debate has emerged: Did the government do the right thing when it decided to guarantee all of SVB’s depositors, including those that exceeded FDIC limits? On one side of this debate are those who view the government’s action as an [...]
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