B-School Bulletin: Rethinking Capitalism

The Center for Social Innovation in Toronto is making financial support available for winners of the contest, which is being held on MIT’s Climate CoLab platform. Image by Solar Charged Driving

Contest Is Crowdsourcing Strategies To Reduce Pollution From Small Businesses

News from MIT Sloan School of Management

“Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make up 98.2 percent of businesses in Canada, and they emit as much climate change-causing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per year as Canada’s combined transportation sector, including every car, truck, train, plane, and ship. Reducing emissions can benefit SMEs by helping them grow while also building healthier communities.

“The Center for Social Innovation in Toronto has launched a contest on MIT’s Climate CoLab platform to solicit a broad range of possible solutions to help SMEs in Ontario reduce their direct and indirect GHG emissions while helping them thrive. The winning proposals may be eligible to receive funding and support to pilot their solutions in Ontario over eight months.”

Confessions Of An Entrepreneur: Say ‘Yes,’ It’s A Gift

News from London Business School

“’Have I done the right thing?’ questioned Prabha Rathinasabapathy in 2017, perched in a windowless room, alone.

“The sole founder of System of Motion, a Bauhaus-inspired women’s performance fashion brand, hit rock bottom after mounting debt, loneliness and a creeping fear of failure stifled her.

“’The light had kind of gone out,’ admits the London Business School alumna, with a Law degree from Oxford. ‘If the light isn’t shining, nobody can see it.’ In order for her stylish-yet-functional classics to make a difference to modern women on the move, she needed to get her shine back.”

Prof. Jonathan E. Ingersoll Jr.

Yale SOM Honors Prof. Jonathan Ingersoll With Named Fund

News from Yale SOM

“The Yale School of Management has created a named fund in honor of Jonathan E. Ingersoll Jr., the Adrian C. Israel Professor of International Trade and Finance, who retires this year after more than 30 years.

“The fund is designated to support scholarship and teaching in the area of finance.

“Ingersoll, who has taught at Yale SOM since 1982, was one of a group of scholars who helped create the theoretical underpinning for several decades of innovations on Wall Street. The Cox-Ingersoll-Ross model is still used to determine the movement of interest rates and the valuation of derivatives. His book Theory of Financial Decision Making is a standard text in financial economics.”

Chinese Investors Learn About Derivatives The Hard Way

News from UCLA Anderson School of Management

“Behavioral finance studies show again and again how individual investors become their own worst enemies by making uninformed or downright irrational decisions. It’s dangerous enough when those poor decisions involve relatively straightforward securities like stocks or bonds. What happens when the investments are more complex?

“Nanjing University’s Xindan Li, UCLA Anderson’s Avanidhar Subrahmanyam and Nanjing University’s Xuewei Yang sought to answer that question by studying Chinese investors’ experience with so-called stock warrants, a type of derivative security introduced to Chinese markets in 2005. It turned out to be a lesson in financial mismanagement for many small investors who treated the warrants more like lottery tickets than an investing tool.”

Ted Zoller in the Kenan Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. UNC photo

Kenan-Flagler Business School Professor Honored With Entrepreneurship Award

News from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School

“UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School professor Ted Zoller received a high honor at the seventh annual Deshpande Symposium for Innovation and Entrepreneurship on June 13, in Lowell, Massachusetts.

“The Deshpande Foundation’s ‘Deshpande Symposium Awards’ recognized Zoller with the Outstanding Contributions to Advancing Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education Award for extraordinary achievements in entrepreneurship.”

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