http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/managing-risk-for-jpmorgan-and-blindness/

Today's case on Competitive Strategy is on Ice Fili, yum yum :) Lakomka is the best :)
However, while the case focuses on competitive strategy in 2002, the company's problem in year would be dealing with Guta raiders. Welcome to Russia.

Things are truly going to change massively and most people don't appreciate the magnitude of upcoming changes.

Andrew Lahde, manager of a small California hedge fund, Lahde Capital, burst into the spotlight last year after his one-year-old fund returned 866 percent betting against the subprime collapse.

Last month, he did the unthinkable -- he shut ( Read more... )

При поступлении в Вортон я думал, что наберу себе кучу юридических курсов. Пока с этим не очень. Единственный курс, который удалось взять - это Securities Regulation, но я его видимо дропну, потому что невозможно это слушать больше 15 минут. Такая скука... Не понимаю как 80 студентов Law Penn вокруг меня не засыпают.

Фуууу. Ок, появилось несколько часов свободного времени, наконец-то!

Phillies lost unfortunately.


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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-11/u-s-is-bankrupt-and-we-don-t-even-know-commentary-by-laurence-kotlikoff.html

Nothing new, but this article has links to a couple of good reliable reports on the dire state of the US debt.

Report by IMF: www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pn/2010/pn10101.htm

Report by Congressional Budget Office: www.imf.org/ ( Read more... )

Studies in Wharton begin earlier than in other schools, we started on the 2nd of August. Right now it's mostly courses in finance/accounting/statistics for people that did not have previous academic background in these areas. Also in Wharton you have an opportunity to waive any core class either by credentials, meaning previous academic ( Read more... )

I have been admitted to Wharton! It's funny, 5-6 years ago I read somewhere in a newspaper about "the world's top financial school", Wharton, and made a note to myself to get into Wharton one day. Fast forward 6 years and here I am, in my dream school.

Hopefully Wharton will make me a better person and a better professional.