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March 13, 2010 at 10:26 am
Just arrived back from March Break and "warming up" to classes again in Ian Schnoor's third financial modeling module: LBO's. Before leaving for the break, he had come and done ... (
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February 28, 2010 at 4:20 pm
The Canada / US Men's Hockey is on the TV in the atrium and if you aren't watching it here, chances are you are probably watching it somewhere anyways.However, exam week for Q3 ... (
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February 28, 2010 at 4:11 pm
Yesterday, Rotman hosted an open house for potential students. The Rotman Ambassadors as well as faculty and staff were out in force to talk to students and answer their questions ... (
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February 25, 2010 at 6:49 pm
One thing that I've always been fascinated with (and need to look into more) is mergers and acquisitions. However, in this environment of post-financial crisis recovery, the M&A ... (
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February 24, 2010 at 11:38 am
Today, Industry "Charlie" teams presented this morning and we were Team E. It was an interesting exercise and we learned quite a bit. Teams seemed to have the same message for ... (
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February 20, 2010 at 1:16 am
This might be one of the most brilliant finance things I've ever seen taught a few days ago by our finance prof. I've always been interested in options thinking about how they ... (
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February 17, 2010 at 12:30 pm
I love geometric series. It describes so many natural phenomena especially as it relates to finance and economics. For example:GDP mutiplier and Marginal Propensity to Consume ... (
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February 16, 2010 at 7:41 pm
I recently signed up for a Venture Capital competition. I've been trying to find more opportunities to work with classmates. The PSO has made a good effort to mix up the groups ... (
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February 16, 2010 at 6:59 pm
Today, our MCV professor, Dilip Soman, gave a talk about his new book, Managing Customer Value - One Stage at a Time.He spoke about the new changes happening in the marketing industry
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February 16, 2010 at 1:20 pm
What an interesting concept. We had briefly touched the idea of Dutch Auctions in microeconomics way back in Q1 which is a bidding strategy whose mechanics are based in the math ... (
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February 16, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Rotman students are still in the heat of trying to find a summer job and have been asking around for advice for what to do. Specifically, there were a lot of questions about how ... (
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February 16, 2010 at 11:25 am
Some of you may know that it was Chinese New Year this weekend. Along with Valentine’s Day and the Opening of the Olympics in Vancouver, it’s been a very auspicious weekend.Just ... (
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February 15, 2010 at 1:49 pm
I have some friends who are looking at trying to gain positions in Fixed Income so I thought I would have a quick review of the 4 C's of Credit. They are:Character - The management ... (
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February 14, 2010 at 2:33 pm
I was working with a buddy on a financial model recently and this came up as an issue. It's very confusing because Working Capital is defined by operating assets and liabilities ... (
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February 12, 2010 at 1:38 pm
Wow. What an oxymoron. We had briefly heard about this in game theory in Economics way back in Q1 and now it's coming up again in Q3 in finance. First in game theory and dominant ... (
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February 12, 2010 at 12:17 pm
Today, we were talking about BCG's 2x2 Matrix (shown above) in our marketing class and our professor proposed to specifically define market share using a benchmark of the industry ... (
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February 12, 2010 at 11:55 am
Often we've heard the phrase "Past behaviour is [not] a good predictor of future performance".The above sentence includes the word [not] in finance, but excludes the word [not] ... (
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February 11, 2010 at 6:57 pm
Today, we had our first class for the Latin America International Study Tour (LAIST) with our professor Anil Verma. His style is certainly different from Walid, but you can tell ... (
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February 9, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Yesterday, we were in our leadership discussing a case about an aggressive investment banker, "Rob Parson", who was being abbrasive but accomplishing the job by increasing the ... (
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February 8, 2010 at 12:23 pm
This morning we completed our Strategy II Case, Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream. Previously (last Thursday), our class began the discussion and during the break, a few of my friends ... (
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February 6, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Last night was a great night out. Several MBA schools: DeGroote (McMaster) invited Rotman, Ryerson, Schulich, and Laurier down to Cheval Night club for an Inter MBA Social with ... (
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February 6, 2010 at 5:54 pm
On Wednesday, Rotman hosted Ian Schnoor to do a free course through PACE, Financial Modeling 1 - Building a Financial Model.He's style was very organized and structured, with an ... (
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February 2, 2010 at 11:54 pm
I was studying for the CFA Level II on Sunday and I noticed that some of the topics covered in the Equity Analysis portion were items that I was pondering earlier including: alternate ... (
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February 2, 2010 at 10:49 pm
On Monday, students at Rotman heard news as to the status of their international exchange program applications. There was a bit of chatter as we heard which students would be going ... (
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February 2, 2010 at 10:45 pm
On Friday of last week, our professor, Walid Hejazi, was acting as host to a panel of speakers discussing "The Diversification of Global Finance and Opportunity: The Growing Potential ... (
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