Faculty & Leadership Blog / Tag: Finance

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Vice Provost Candida Brush Co-Authors Award Winning Paper

Vice Provost of Global Entrepreneurial Leadership Candida Brush’s co-authored paper, “Why do family firms strive for nonfinancial goals? An organizational identity perspective”, Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice, 2013, was recently selected for the Emerald Citations of Excellence 2016. Each year Emerald Group Publishing awards certificates to highly cited papers relating to the areas of Business Management,…

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Secondary Market Trading Study Conducted By Professor Sirri

Alexandria, VA – The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) today published a report on municipal market trading patterns, associated pricing and the effect of price transparency on pricing. The report, which is the first of its kind from the municipal market regulator, provides a baseline set of statistics about municipal bond trading to enable market…

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10,000 Women Are Just A Start

I entirely agree with the Washington Post’s Kathleen Parker that “I am woman hear me roar” is cringe worthy.   I’m not really sure why, maybe just the timing.  But I do get goose bumps working with the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women and 10,000 Small Businesses initiatives. What I love about the program is that it…

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Prof. Goldstein’s Arctic Economics Course

According to the Polar Field Services Newsletter, “Babson Finance Professor Michael Goldstein created Arctic Economics to compliment his new (and first) NSF-funded project which examines the effects of seasonality and changing climate on the arctic economy. As a social scientist, he’s happy that NSF is interested in how seasonal change affects culture and people, and…