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Their teacher tried to tell them they were headed for trouble, but high on risk and volatility, the Quants of France didn’t listen. At the height of her fame in the middle of the previous decade, Nicole El Karoui had the imposing look and the ...
May 21, 2012 at 04:55 | Source: Daily Beast
It sounds like an episode from the TV drama The Good Wife. Ambitious government (SEC) lawyers end the career of Barr Rosenberg, the most distinguished and influential quantitative analyst (both academically and professionally) our industry ever produced.
May 20, 2012 at 03:24 | Source: Financial Times
With the demand on Wall Street for fresh talent to create automated trading strategies and code algorithms still surging, on-campus recruiting has become critical for capital markets firms looking to scoop up the next generation of quants. Facing a host of ...
May 15, 2012 at 12:26 | Source: Advanced Trading
Every quarter, many money managers have to disclose what they've bought and sold. Their latest moves can shine a bright light on smart stock picks. Today let's look at the Renaissance Technologies hedge fund company, founded by James Simons, and ...
May 24, 2012 at 23:57 | Source: Motley Fool
Where do quants come from? I asked a mathematics professor if a story I had heard years ago was true: After the fall of the Berlin Wall, a number of former Soviet Navy scientists came to Wall Street and were scooped up by firms to design trading formulas ...
May 22, 2012 at 12:39 | Source: Advanced Trading
By John A. Byrne (Poets&Quants) -- Harvard Business School announced today the most significant changes to its MBA admission policies since 2002, when the prestigious school began to require that candidates be interviewed before it offered admission.
May 22, 2012 at 17:12 | Source: CNN
By John A. Byrne (Poets&Quants) -- When he graduated from the Harvard Business School three years ago this month, the economy was a wreck. Nearly one in four of his classmates didn't have a job at graduation in May 2009. Yet, Joe Mihalic ...
May 16, 2012 at 14:34 | Source: CNN
In today’s Poets and Quants, author John Byrne writes about how Harvard MBA graduate Joe Mihalic (’09) chronicled his intense financial diet to pay $101,000 in loans that he had to borrow to get the degree, even after Harvard gave him $ ...
May 16, 2012 at 01:27 | Source: Forbes
More top MBA programs are trying to help students with scholarships, and some compete for students with top GMAT scores by offering aid, said John Byrne, editor of Poets & Quants. For example, Mihalic received $54,000 from Harvard. But with ...
May 23, 2012 at 15:30 | Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Video is embedded below, but there is also a pretty complete, but not official, transcript at Poets and Quants. In March 2008 Sheryl Sandberg was named COO of Facebook, where she manages business operations including sales, marketing ...
May 24, 2012 at 23:57 | Source: TechCrunch