From Amongst the Stars
February 4, 2011 at 10:18 am
xin nian kuai le; gong hai fat choi; selamat tahun cina baru Earlier this week, a few of the exchange students at LBS went to celebrate Chinese New Year in typical fashion, over ... (
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From Amongst the Stars
February 1, 2011 at 10:30 am
My classmate, Alejandro Macareno, recently spoke with the Globe and Mail on why international students come to Canada and add value to the classroom through their unique experience ... (
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January 30, 2011 at 6:01 pm
Today, I presented remotely from London at the Islamic Finance Program, hosted at Rotman for the Executive Program in partnership with Bennett Jones. This was the final component ... (
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January 26, 2011 at 9:54 am
Quando sei a Roma vai dove vanno i romani"When in Rome do as the Romans do" One of the benefits of doing exchange, particularly in Europe, is the ability to travel to new places, ... (
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January 21, 2011 at 9:00 am
One of my favourite math identities is Bayes’ rule. It also occurs quite frequently in Behavioural Econ / Finance as well as integrative thinking because it is such a good (mathematically ... (
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From Amongst the Stars
January 20, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Whether fortunately or unfortunately, human beings do not behave in perfectly economically rational ways which makes them very difficult to predict. Even with our most complex ... (
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January 19, 2011 at 5:49 am
The Analyst Exchange and Marquee group showed us how to build LBO models and the basic framework for showing how LBOs generate returns to private equity holders through 3 mechanisms:Leverage ... (
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January 16, 2011 at 9:00 am
Jaime is a part-time student in the MBA program at Rotman. He has worked in the sports media industry since 2002 and is currently Manager, Digital Media for the Canadian Football ... (
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January 13, 2011 at 9:47 pm
I've arrived and moved in to my flat which is right across the street from London Business School which is convenient. Apparently, we happen to be very close to some famous addresses ... (
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January 13, 2011 at 9:00 am
Darshan is an another good friend of mine from Rotman. He holds Bachelor of Technology, Applied Electronics and Instru, University of Kerala and also spent this last summer in ... (
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January 12, 2011 at 6:56 pm
I think it's finally hit me. I'm flying to London. I'm sitting in Pearson airport taking advantage of the free wifi, wrapping up a few things and my excitement level is steadily ... (
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January 12, 2011 at 9:00 am
Harmanpreet is an international student from India and holds a Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering degree from the National Institute of Technology in Jalandhar, India ... (
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January 11, 2011 at 9:00 am
Arash is a old friend of mine back from my McMaster Engineering days. After pursuing his Masters of Engineering, he decided to come to Rotman to do his MBA and will be joining ... (
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January 10, 2011 at 9:00 am
As I’m preparing to go to go to LBS, I’m dedicating this week to Rotman: What makes us different? Over the next 5 days, I’ll be putting up posts about what differentiates ... (
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January 7, 2011 at 7:13 pm
We just arrived at the Westin Harbour Castle in Toronto for the MBA Games hosted by Schulich. The Rotman team has arrived and we are just getting sorted in our rooms before finding ... (
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From Amongst the Stars
January 6, 2011 at 1:03 pm
There was an interesting idea that came up in our discussion of Islamic Finance that got me thinking. While not directly related to what we were doing, someone mentioned the idea ... (
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January 6, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Well after a well deserved break, all the students are back.First years are in their Negotiations class which odd for me as I didn’t do this last year due to the Middle East ... (
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December 16, 2010 at 5:48 pm
This morning we had a working session for our ICP - Islamic Finance with some lawyers, a corporate banker and professors. The two teams presented their analysis of the conventional ... (
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December 16, 2010 at 4:23 pm
In anticipation of our trip to LBS, Geoff and I have been asking ourselves: “What makes Rotman different?” In discussing this idea, one of the key points at the top of the ... (
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December 13, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Last week marked the end of classes for second years and many of us had our first exams today (with the exception of the options class which had their exams last week due to a ... (
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December 2, 2010 at 5:17 pm
With summer recruiting coming up in the next few months and with many of our second year finance courses requiring us to do some form of valuation (Corp Fin, Financial Management, ... (
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December 2, 2010 at 3:33 pm
Wednesday morning was the presentation date for our final project in M&A. The Wednesday morning class was given the acquirer of Bombardier and told to pitch an appropriate ... (
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November 25, 2010 at 12:00 pm
In Finance 1 last year, we were introduced to the idea of multi-factor models (MFM) originally explained by Fama and French as an alternative to the traditional Capital Asset Pricing ... (
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November 25, 2010 at 11:33 am
When we were introduced to the Abnormal Earnings method in Business Analysis and Valuation, I was decomposing the math formula which constructs the value of the equity. As far ... (
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November 18, 2010 at 7:15 pm
Rotman is putting together a team for this year’s MBA games, hosted by Schulich from Jan 7th to 10th. I saw how much fun they had last year that I missed because I was on the ... (
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