Finance

As part of the School's Centennial celebration, alumni leaders offer predictions about the future in business and beyond. Here, Warren Buffett '51, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, looks ahead.

As part of the School’s Centennial celebration, alumni leaders offer predictions about the future in business and beyond. Here, Russ Carson ’67, co-founder and general partner at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, looks ahead.

CFOs do radically different jobs today than they did just 10 years ago.

Robert F. Smith ’94, founder and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, finds value in the people and places that are most often ignored.

As countries around the world roll out climate change mitigation policies, carbon divestment moves from moral high ground to financial imperative.

New research shows that the less frequently investors check their portfolios, the better off they are.

Six years after the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve and other central banks are still looking for answers to whether the unconventional monetary policies adopted following the crisis — including lowered interest rates — have been effective in helping American households and the larger economy. The persistence of so many debt-burdened households, widespread unemployment, and relatively low economic growth has only increased the debate among economists and policymakers.

The placement agent concept that Charles Eaton ’68 spearheaded has become a multibillion-dollar industry.

Why practitioners of value investing and academics who study it have more to learn from each other than they think.

What the gradual turn away from modern portfolio theory holds for value investing.