Each semester I teach a "quant" class at the Ross School of .?? Students choose ratios/factors and through FactSet (NYSE:FDS) they test those factors and create quant screens. ??Their 'quant screens' create a ranked listing of stocks, and students choose stocks from the screens.?? Then, they take the ranked??stocks and perform some valuation and further ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 22:53

Plagiarism: it?s enough to raise your blood pressure. An article in??Korean Circulation Journal appears to plagiarize from a similar article in the??Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC).??In 2009,??Franz Messerli, a well-known hypertension expert at St Luke?s Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York, and Gurusher Panjrath, at Johns Hopkins Hospital, published a Viewpoint and ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 22:53

Guest post written by Navin Chaddha Navin Chaddha,??managing director of ??the??Mayfield Fund, invests in early-stage companies that leverage mobile, cloud, energy and big data trends. Mayfield is a 43-year-old firm with over $2.7 billion under management, that has invested in 500 companies, over 100 of which have gone public and over 150 have merged or ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 22:53

Whether they realize it or not, economists Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson are constructal theorists. Their new book, Why Nations Fail, "answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor" and then goes on to, "conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or the lack of it)." So it's not the landscape, it's the flow configuration, just as Adrian Bejan's Constructal Law predicts.

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 21:53

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is in advanced talks to buy the NBA?s Memphis Grizzlies, CSNBayArea.com reported on Saturday. Ellison made a failed bid almost two years ago to buy the Golden State Warriors, and he subsequently made an unsuccessful bid for the New Orleans Hornets. The site asserts that according to two sources, Ellison has ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 21:53

The United States taxes its citizens and resident aliens on their worldwide income. U.S. law prevents double taxation by allowing a credit for foreign tax on income which is also subject to U.S. income tax. The U.S.-Canada Income Tax Treaty of 1980 provides process by which Canada Revenue will collect U.S. income tax obligations of ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 21:52

Do rumors reveal credible information regarding a potential action by Buffett in coal? How would Buffett justify taking a step towards increasing pollution with coal when a better alternative with natural gas is available?

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 19:53

The relevance of Greg Smith's broadside attack on Goldman's "toxic culture" in his??NY Times Op-Ed public resignation remains underdeveloped. Sure, we've had five days seeing him celebrated, vilified, and defended. And, to a lesser degree, Goldman has received similar attention. But little has been said about what this tale can teach about??ethical conflicts so familiar ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 19:53

In collaboration with Ellas 2.0, Women 2.0 explores entrepreneurs in Latin America. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Last Friday was the eagerly anticipated Mexican.VC demo day in San Francisco. The first Silicon Valley seed program for Mexican Internet startups, Mexican.VC invests in Mexican technology companies attacking both local and global markets. With ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 19:53

Michael Sandel, a political philosopher from Harvard, has put forward an argument that some things are just too important to be commodified through market relations. Sadly I think his argument breaks down because he?s made three really rather bad mistakes about the underlying nature of markets and their effects. The first is this: These uses ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 19:52