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This must have been an interesting pitch meeting: "We want the guy buying your product to also buy a pornographic magazine. A really nasty one. Then terrible things will happen to him, and he will be humiliated on national TV, and everyone will know that he - your consumer - is a total deviant...
...Described by Kimberly C. David—Baylor’s vice president of finance and planning who worked closely with him—as “very driven” and “a roll-up-the-sleeves guy,” Sweet’s intensity is apparent in his work today. “He packs a lot into a conversation, but he listens at the same speed,” says Nancy M. Cline, head administrator of Harvard College Library. “He puts an awful lot into a very short amount...
...straight shooter,” Wuertz says, “a no-BS kind of guy...
...decades, since VaR was developed and popularized. But as its use became widespread, its users became, on average, less knowledgeable about its application than the group of traders who created it in the late 1980s and early 1990s.“Some people thought they could hire a physics guy and put him to work in a ratings agency with no economics experience,” says Laibson, adding that economists recognized the inherent dangers of these models long before the current crisis.“The world has learned a lesson, but it hasn’t changed...
...fanatic about a lot of things. I went to one of his court appearances and thought, 'This guy is dangerous.' There were a lot of red flags that came up about him." - Suzanne James, former director of victims' services for Shawnee County, where Roeder was involved with the Freemen, Kansas City Star, June...