»February 27, 2007: CNN issues apology for bunk business school rankings to Dave...my one commenter.
Last week, CNNMoney.com published "Top 50 Business Schools for Getting Hired." The data for the list was provided by an outside vendor, Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd. Upon our publication of the feature, we were ed to potential flaws in the provided data and the data survey methodology. These flaws in methodology may have resulted in University of North Carolina s Kenan-Flagler Business Sc... ... (MORE)
»February 23, 2007: Kodak's Wind of Change
My marketing group is working on a final project discussing Kodak s recent attempt to rebrand its product and its plan to take on the HP ink cartridge market. I found this video that was created within Kodak and they released it to the public. Check it out. http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sz6XjXu-oT8 ... (MORE)
)»February 22, 2007: Bunk Business School Rankings
So CNN recently published its "Top 50 Business Schools to get Hired in 2007" and I was glad to see Maryland s Smith school listed, but I was confused to see the George Washington University right above Smith. After all, by their own ranking the GW grads had one less job offer and starting salary almost $10,000 lower. Umm, maybe recruiters think that George Washington is a better dea... ... (MORE)
»February 16, 2007: The Death of the trading floor and why Tavern on the Green sucks.
So this past weekend I went up to New York for an equity trading seminar thru Baruch College and learned that the trading floor is dead. Our guest speaker was Pete Jenkins from the NYSE and essentially told a room full of wanna-be traders that the trading floor is on its way out and in order to be qualified to be a trader in the future you ll need to be heavy on quant skills and algorithmic tr... ... (MORE)
»February 6, 2007: CAPM and the Dumbing Down of the MBA
My Data, Models, and Decisions course covered the Capital Asset Pricing Model last night when discussing regressions, which means that they briefly mentioned the resulting beta from running the regression. I uderstand that this is a core course, but does anyone else feel like they dumb things down a bit too much? I know not everyone is a finance major, but why not offer up the rest of the mod... ... (MORE)
Current mood:
Bored
Current mood:
Bored
»February 5, 2007: So you want to be a stock superstar...
...and live large, a big house, 5 cars, you re in charge, comin up in the world, don t trust no body gotta look over your shoulder constantly. Of course this a copy of Cypress Hill s song "Rock Superstar," but it seems to fit pretty well for want I-bankers want as well. Anyway, my purpose for this blog is to talk about my (and hopefully some of your) experiences with trying to get ... ... (MORE)
Current mood:
Sceptical
Current mood:
Sceptical
